Labels:bulletin board | hakham | monitor | person | poster | reckoner | sky OCR: Van Gagh predicted that "the ture af painting 1s in the tropics, either in Java or Martinique Brazil or Australia and not here dreams af a colonial paradise related to his desire to form the ideal artist's community, fraternity ot artists gathered under "the starry sky His fantasy about a tropical paradise was thus confounded with Flammarion's own speculations about cosmic immortality. It is curious that Cecil Rhodes, the paradigm af the nineteenth- -century expansionist mentality once con- fessed: The world is nearly all parcelled aut, and what there left f it is being divided up conquered, and colonized To think rt these stars that you see averhead at t night, these vast warlds which we can never reach Iwould annex the planets if I could Loften think of that. It makes me sad to see them ...