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‘Ambivalent Tourist’ Stephanie Vlahos Medium
Vienna is an imperial city. Walking it brings moments of discomfort and marvel — the discomfort of history’s contradictions.
My heart skips a beat when I see the colossal statue of Beethoven. What a complicated and sad life he lead, and yet, somehow his scars transmuted into clarion anthems of the human spirit.
I perceive the value of preservation, what was possibly the obsession of empires. Ephesushas graduated to a collaboration of curation. Meanwhile as my heart stops when looking at Egon Schiele’s The Embrace. It is unadulterated despair.
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It is here Sigmund Freud developed his theories on psychology. Impacting our way of thinking about how the outer world impacts our inner world. His reflections were science and art.
Vienna is the home of Johann Strauss and his dreamy waltzes, conjuring softer dispositions of love and reminiscence in three-quarter time. It is the home of Gustav Klimt. The Kiss is a revelation. I have admired it for years, understood its rendering with lively concentric circles juxtaposed against stolid rectangles in a moment’s romance. And yet, I have never seen its nearly dimensional texture. I can admire Klimt’s approach to his portraits. Always totemic, the woman as totem. Untold histories of strength in despair and as death despite beauty.
Reminding me of so many songs, but I can’t stop hearing “Wien, Wien, nur du allein.” I understand schmaltz. Why shouldn’t we indulge in excessive sentimentality. Cry, smile, sing along wistfully. Instead, it has become a twenty-first century crowbar sentiment called anger?
The Viennese indulge in their love of the city. It is grand, yet curvaceous and pretty.