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Vija Celmins (Latvian/American, b. 1938), Hand Holding a Firing Gun, 1964. Oil on canvas, 24 x 34 in.
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By John Dunning, Director of Product Management
We’ve always got something new in the works at Yahoo Mail …
Most recently, our mission has been to bring Yahoo Mail to all—no matter where you are, what language you speak, or what device you’re using. And today, we’re happy to announce the expansion of the new Yahoo Mail desktop experience to 30 additional languages, including:
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Day in and day out, Yahoo Mail’s mission spans the world. Wherever you live, whichever language you speak, we’ll continue to work on connecting you with the people you care about.
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“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is… suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”
- Gillian Anderson
Photography:@gyokko
Beautiful Anete from last summer..
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“Portraitists”. From left - Ernests Miķelis, Fricis Zandbergs, Kārlis Padegs, Kārlis Danne, Oļģerts Jaunarājs and an unknown person. Around 1930.
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Dancing on a catamaran in Jūrmala, around 1933. From left - Voldemārs Griķis (?), Kārlis Padegs, Hanele (Elvīra Mituse) and Jānis Tīdemanis.
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People at Kārlis Padegs’ and Valdis Klalnroze’s first exhibition “Under The Lime Trees” in Vērmanes Garden, 1934. The artwork was mostly by Padegs, who exhibited both paintings and drawings. Both artists supervised the exhibition themselves, asking people for the small entrance fee of 20 or 30 santīmi (~UK cents). They had a tent where to bring artwork in case of rain.
Once when there were less visitors, Kārlis began to slowly draw a new poster to catch people’s attention - a girl sitting on a knife. An observant policeman noticed this, and asked to remove the drawing immediately. Padegs calmly replied if he had a document that would allow him to make such an order. No. While the policeman went to fetch it, many people had gathered.
Nevertheless this exhibition earned highly mixed reviews.
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Catalogue of Kārlis Padegs’ and Valdis Kalnroze’s* art exhibition “Under the Lime Trees”, 1934.
*then Rozenbergs, later swapped for a local equivalent of the German name.
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Kārlis Padegs, photographed by Henrihs Bauers, probably in his personal photo salon,1939 or 1940. The photographer took Padegs’ last portraits, when the illness was already impossible to hide.
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Friends and colleagues, artists Valdis Kalnroze and Kārlis Padegs, in Kalnroze’s studio,1934. A photo from newspaper “Dienas Lapas” (Day’s Pages) publication.
Together they held their first exhibition after leaving Art Academy, which took place in a public garden. In the newspaper advertisement they both introduced their artistic views:
Valdis Kalnroze: “Latvian art is still in child’s diapers, we can’t talk about national art, because our teachers are influenced by foreign schools”
While Kārlis Padegs wrote: “Art is not a reproduction of the existing, but every artist’s duty to find harmony between himself and his creative spirit, looking for a fulfillment, an expression of his "self”. He must try to understand the pulse of the current age. The face of this age is the starting point, to show the colours of life’s shadows, which will never be too dark for it, for depicting war, unemployment and the ultramodern life of cabaret.“
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Jana Brike (Latvian, b. 1980, Riga, Latvia) - Night Ascending, 2021, Paintings: Oil on Canvas
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