Gustav Klimt honoured with Google Doodle

Join Google, Gustav Klimt  and myself as we celebrate the 150th birthday of Gustav Klimt with the rest of the world.

Australian artist, Gustav Klimt's Google Doodle.

The Austrian artist, born in 1862, displayed a fascination with eroticism and led the Secession movement. As a symbolist painter, his work caused a lot of controversy for its celebration of sexuality. Today, Gustav's pieces are counted among the most expensive artworks worldwide.

Klimt was the son of a gold engraver. In his later years, he became known for his gold leaf on his works, which he produced after he was trained at Vienna's School of Applied Art. 

The Secession movement was a group of Viennese artists who challenged the rigidity of traditional Austrian paintings, and he emerged as a master musketeer for this group. His leadership made him the only artist to do an extensive, authorized productions of his own work.

In 1903, he was forced to remove Hope 1, a painting of a naked pregnant woman from the retrospective exhibition of the Secession movement. So far, his most famous painting is The Kiss (1907-08), which reflected his fascination with eroticism.

This father of 14 illegitimate children, died from a stroke after contracting the Spanish flu during the 1918 pandemic.

In 2010, a Vienna art museum invited a sex club to hold orgies and display related paraphernalia in the Secession Building, home to Klimt's Beethoven Frieze, his most ambitious surviving work.

"As for me, I can't wait to get honored with a Google Doodle but I wonder what to do to qualify?"

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Gustav Klimt

Galamsey operators impregnate school girls at Gomoa Ajumako

"They came to mine but now they have decided to exploit the women instead..." 

A Galamsey is a local artisanal gold miner. 

Some galamsey operators have impregnated about seven school girls in the Gomoa Ajumako Township of Ghana and this has led to serious concerns among the teachers in the area. Some of these teachers spoke to Adom TV  but the prefer to remain anonymous and their main worry was with the attitude of most parents who failed to provide the  needs of their wards.  This  is what they believe  has driven these young girls to fend for themselves by depending on the galamsey operators .

According to one of the teachers, some of the parents are aware of the affairs of the daughters and to an extent, these parents have not only expressed their interest but have also  offered to support the girls probably hoping to gain financially.

Another teacher said she had five pupils  who were already pregnant... two in Classes 5 and 6; with five others in the Junior High School. This makes it a total of ten. Together, the teachers believe that this trend is affecting teaching and learning and that even when the bold and courageous ones return to the classroom, they are unable to function as they used to prior to their pregnancy and delivery. 

They have reported this to the authorities to prosecute those galamsey men who impregnate the young girls. A gentleman described the situation as chronic adding that in one instance a man impregnated three young girls.


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Head-Teacher Super-sizes School Classes and Believes its the Best!

This looks fine... Honestly! However, consider the fact that this is a picture of an over-sized class and think again. The Headteacher of Bure Valley Junior School in Aylsham, Norfolk, Mr. John Starling, said that larger classes improve the progress of younger children. 

Product of head teacher, Mr Starling... Super-sized classes.

He revealed this discovery two years ago after he had grouped the youngest pupils of his school into a class of 70 and now he has decided to teach the entire school in the same way. He grouped his year three children into a class of 70 and his year four children into a class of 60. These classes have two teachers and two teaching assistants on hand - with the year three class also having an extra teacher to help.

The pupils books in a pile

Starling said today that the scheme was a success, and he is now grouping the older years in a similar way.

Since Starling introduced the ‘super-size’ classes, the school has received positive Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) inspections. In November 2010, the school was rated ‘good’  with some areas ‘outstanding.’

The report said the way the classroom sizes had been ‘super-sized’ had been "instrumental" in improving the quality of education.

Would you be happy to see your child taught in ‘super-sized’ classroom?














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Story by Sophia Moir - Head Teacher Super-Sizes School Classes