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Join the roomSerenity é uma obra de arte pública no Meridian Hill Park, um parque urbano em Washington, D.C. Foi esculpida pelo artista espanhol-catalão Josep Clarà, que criou uma versão idêntica em exibição em Barcelona. A escultura foi encomendada por Charles Deering, um empresário e colecionador de arte americano, que era amigo de Clarà. A escultura foi concluída em 1921 e Deering a dedicou ao seu amigo de longa data, o Tenente Comandante William H. Schuetze, que morreu em 1902. Deering a presenteou aos Estados Unidos e ela foi instalada em 1925. A escultura em mármore de Carrara repousa sobre uma base de granito e retrata uma mulher sentada em uma saliência rochosa. Logo após ser instalada, houve protestos sobre seu valor artístico e ela foi vandalizada. Por quase um século, Serenity foi repetidamente danificada, com seu nariz, mão e outras partes faltando. Ela foi chamada de "memorial mais vandalizado" em Washington, D.C.
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“As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and good will and serenity.”
“A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being, for such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought. As he develops a right understanding, and sees more and more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss and fume and worry and grieve, and remains poised, steadfast, serene.”
“What produced this divine serenity, subject to no moods, clouded by no depression, this perpetual Sunday of the heart? It was not merely good nature, not the accident of a happy organization. It was deeper than that. It was the perfect poise resulting from a Christian experience. It was the habit of looking to God in love and to man in love.”
“The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenalin but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.”
“What moments divine, what rapture serene.”
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