File:What after playing ball.jpg
Original file (1,464 × 1,441 pixels, file size: 986 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary
[edit]Author |
Erik Pevernagie
|
||
Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
||
Description |
"What after bowling alone?" , by Erik Pevernagie,(100 x100cm), Oil on canvas xx
Great potential for emotional balance and mental flexibility can help us fight the bleakness and sterility of a statistical matrix that clashes with the needs of our inner compass. Reality may not always be a happy companion. If we learn to trust ourselves and fully put through our paces, we can discover a winner's soul ignoring itself, passing with flying colors. The future can be an open space with a range of surprises. Some cry out against the majority's despotism that knocks them off their feet and hacks into their fundamental values. Since the unbearable intrusion on their lifestyle's quality frightens them, they are obsessed with losing their integrity through the backlash of an overpowering "democratorship." A reconciliation between freethinking and mediation is essential because mere resentment can be an evil counselor. Conspiracy adepts love storytellers who want to exorcise their fear, mixing rational and irrational elements to construct a plausible narrative for people craving a meaningful decoding and breathtaking clarification. Self-confidence is vital, but sociologists and politicians can be paramount for people's mental, social, and material well-being. Social scientists analyzing human society's development can proceed clinically or, conversely, with total social commitment. American sociologist Robert Putnam was undoubtedly an inspiration for the picture "What after bowling alone?" Financial capital has always been a priority in our communities, and a dynamic process of social integration has been neglected. By emphasizing the decline of "social capital" in our society and pointing out the dangers of specific social measures with negative consequences on mental well-being, sociologists can take politicians on the road to improving a social system. But the actors in the political arenas need to hear better or look in the right direction. Politicians can be tantalizing storytellers. They mix facts with fiction, grab our emotions, and tell things they want us to believe. Their factoids are unremittingly reiterated, take a life on their own, and in the end, become the very truth… until the bubbles burst. Critical sociologists raise questions: do we have a government of the people, by the people, for the people? Do politicians have a short-term vision or a long-term vision? Do they keep in mind the social identity of their constituents? Do they think of the mental well-being and the individuals' culture, or are only the next elections imperative? In the rough-and-tumble play of politics, dog-whistle messages are amply dispatched over the heads of the grassroots generations who do not recognize the writing on the wall, remaining ignorant like dumb puppets on a string. We must not look past the maneuvers of politicians who feel driven by intuition fed by visionary hysteria. They pretend to have a 'privileged' mission to shoulder but rob people's physical or mental property, appropriating their cultural heritage. If their intuition is cautioned as vicious or murderous by reason or facts, history will forever eradicate their soul from the holy grail of humanity, especially those who want to set the world on fire for their sole ambition.
Phenomenon: Sociological and political reflections Factual starting point: Bowling cones with woman
Que faire après avoir joué aux boules? Le sociologue américain Robert Putnam a certainement été une source d'inspiration pour cette peinture: le déclin du capital social dans nos sociétés. Nous avons été témoins de ce fait depuis des décennies. Le capital financier semble avoir été une priorité dans nos communautés. L'intégration sociale semble avoir été laissé mal à part. Wat doen we na de bowling? De Amerikaanse socioloog Robert Putnam is zeker een inspiratie voor dit schilderij: de afname van sociaal kapitaal in de samenleving. We hebben dit al decennia lang gezien. Financieel kapitaal lijkt een prioriteit te zijn geweest in onze gemeenschappen. Sociale integratie lijkt slecht bedeeld te zijn.
LicensingI, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
|
||
Date | 2009 | ||
Source/Photographer |
Made in the artist's workshop |
Licensing
[edit]- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
[[Category:
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 13:57, 25 April 2012 | 1,464 × 1,441 (986 KB) | International-critics (talk | contribs) | {{subst:Upload marker added by en.wp UW}} {{Information |Description = {{en|What after bowling alone.(100 x100cm) Robert Putnam was certainly an inspiration for this painting: the decline of social capital in our societies. We have been witnessing th... |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file:
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Camera manufacturer | Canon |
---|---|
Camera model | Canon PowerShot SD500 |
Exposure time | 1/50 sec (0.02) |
F-number | f/2.8 |
Date and time of data generation | 15:02, 5 January 2011 |
Lens focal length | 7.7 mm |
File change date and time | 15:02, 5 January 2011 |
Y and C positioning | Centered |
Exif version | 2.2 |
Date and time of digitizing | 15:02, 5 January 2011 |
Meaning of each component |
|
Image compression mode | 3 |
APEX shutter speed | 5.65625 |
APEX aperture | 2.96875 |
APEX exposure bias | 0 |
Maximum land aperture | 2.96875 APEX (f/2.8) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Flash | Flash did not fire, auto mode |
Supported Flashpix version | 1 |
Color space | sRGB |
Focal plane X resolution | 7,211.2676056338 |
Focal plane Y resolution | 7,211.2676056338 |
Focal plane resolution unit | inches |
Sensing method | One-chip color area sensor |
File source | Digital still camera |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Auto exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Digital zoom ratio | 1 |
Scene capture type | Standard |