As time goes by...Modern times in teeming II

Lieber Thomas Schleper,

"This day and time we´re living in

gives cause of apprehension

with speed and new invention

and things like fourth dimension...*

Not the fourth dimension is evoked in your article, but "teeming as a gate to modernity" You are reporting of Bonhommés picture "Teeming" from 1865, which shows the "soldiers of work" out of the perspective of the owner -- showing the factory interior view - who tries "to get a quick overall view of his capital investment and its useful exploitation".

Out of the perspective of a student of the art class 12 of our school -- whose drawings were made during a visit in the R.I.M --the structural change in industry has also changed the view on "teeming" . His collage - a new combination of two objects out of the R.I.M. exibition -- wants to show this fact symbolically.

Bonhomme´s "soldier of work" has become a stripped marionette, his body a fossil dinosaur and the teeming laddle a so-called "Auslaufmodell" (phased-out model?), his head illustrating the idiom "There´s no use crying over spilled milk". or " ... the simple facts of life are such, they cannot be removed..." furthermore as it sounds in the song from "Casablanca".
The song also is telling that only "on love you can rely".

However we can rely on both, the Industrial Museum in Oberhausen (R.I.M) and the Westmorelandmuseum of American Art in Pittsburgh - whose collection of industrial machines and paintings enable the students of our schools to have a look at a teeming laddle in original or the watercolour paintings "Teeming" out of "The Valley of Work" Collection.

These "everlasting" cultural goods - conserved at the museum - offer the possibility for the students to deal with the subject of the industrial past and to interpret in a creative "modern "

way from their individual perspective to past times.