December 2023
The
EDITION 4
FINE PRINT
Left: Happy Christmas, Viggo Johansen / Vitagazette.com Cover art by Adele Chen
CONTENTS 4.
Letter from the editor
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Xmas Photography
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Nukes
Photography
Poetry
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Sky and Flying
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Recreation of Gothic View
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Christmas and New Years paintings
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Contributors
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About & Guidelines
Photography
Painting
Paintings gallery
It’s fruitcake weather! — Truman Capote (1924-1984)
Letter from the editor
Dear reader, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! 2023 was a year of excitement, anticipation, joy, but also sorrow, conflict and divide. As the page turns to 2024 (366 days!), we invite you to reflect upon this past year and to keep a positive outlook for your actions and thoughts to come. At the end of this special edition is a short gallery of famous Christmas and New Year artworks from artists of the past (and present). The Fine Print wishes everyone and their families health and happiness for 2024! Best, The Fine Print
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Old toys, 1972, oil on canvas, Pyotr Kozlov / soviet-art.ru
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Christmas Fair, 1918, Boris Kustodiev / arthive.com
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XMAS photography Arabella Juratowitch
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Nukes Shadows dancing, pleas unfolding, A tale as old as time Man becomes God. Power and greed, The seduction of moral demise rules the Hearts and minds of those who administer our societies - purveyors of madness. The grounds shake, trembling in fright of the corrupt glory of men, and Mother Nature arms her forces, readying her troops. A phantom war of shadowy faces and echoing cries, The only remnant - a silhouette on the ground.
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China, America, India, Pakistan Charge themselves with this nuclear drug Pupils dilate in mutilated glee, And the masses weep, seeking to ee The war that will end all war. Air becoming re, Water becomes poison, Fire, smoke, darkness A broken doll resting on radioactive soil.
And so, we reach the end of imagination, As they harbour the forces of heaven and hell alike, for a political power worth the lives of our mothers, brothers and children. It consumes us, becomes us, and soon, we are forgotten.
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Sky and flying Nao Fujita
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RECREATION OF GOTHIC VIEW BY FANCH LEDAN Adele Chen
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Christmas and New Years gallery
Traditional New Year, 2009, Filipp Kubarev / http://artrussia.ru
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Bai Huiqun / yalebooks.yale.edu
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The night before Christmas, 1918, Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky/ http://impressionistsgallery.co.uk
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Variation: Christmas, 1918, Alexej von Jawlensky / www.pubhist.com
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New Year tree on Manezhnaya square, 1947, Mikhail Bobyshev / soviet-art.ru
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City scenes. Before Christmas, Winchester, 1960, Anton Pieck / arthive.com
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Moominmama’s Holiday, Tove Jansson / arthive.com
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Happy New Year!, Tove Jansson / arthive.com
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Shrovetide, 1916, Boris Kustodiev / meisterdrucke.uk
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Cat Christmas, 1935, Louis Wain / arthive.com
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A big thank you to our Contributors
Arabella Juratowitch/ Xmas Photography Anonymous/ Nukes Nao Fujita/ Sky and Flying Adele Chen, editor in chief / Letter from the Editor / Recreation of Gothic View / cover illustration
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ABOUT AND gUIDELINES Submissions are open
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