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WITH THE SHOES OF A PAINTER

In London, there is the Museum of Empathy http://www.empathymuseum.com/ the brainchild of British philosopher Krznaric, with the aim of creating a space of experience and sharing. Almost like putting in the shoes of others. Obviously, entering a museum full of famous paintings, you can also use the shoes (understood as artistic sensibility), of an famous painter. The creative life styles, …

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HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, CAMBRIDGE / MASSACHUSETTS – Wolfgang Tillmans

Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education. This University (which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts), has more than 360,000 alumni around the world. Harvard University http://www.harvard.edu/on-campus/visit-harvard is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. Harvard greets people from all over the …

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CAPTURING MODERN ANXIETIES – George Tooker: modeled sculpture forms and mask like faces

GEORGE TOOKER 1/4 – His works often reveal eerie situations, in a mechanical and hostile society. He was born in an August day, in Brooklyn (where he spent the first six years of his life). He took art lessons as a child, and spent much of his young adult life at the Fogg Art Museum. He graduated from Harvard University …

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GEORGE TOOKER (1920/2011), AMERICAN PAINTER – Paint situations with powerful mythic overtones

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THE FREE UNIVERSITY OF ALCATRAZ

Jacopo Fo (who founded the Free University of Alcatraz), has now began the construction of an ecovillage in Umbria, just off Alcatraz. http://www.ecovillaggiosolare.it/index.php/notizie-e-appuntamenti/english The Free University of Alcatraz is literally what you would define a ‘green heaven’. It is an amazingly beautiful four-million-square-metres of flourishing nature enclave (which hosts a cultural centre directed by Jacopo Fo), an Italian artist and …

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DRAMA, ART AND MUSIC STUDIES / BOLOGNA / DAMS – Degree programs in the arts disciplines, music and entertainment

To be admitted to a degree course, you need a diploma of secondary school five-year (or another qualification obtained abroad and recognized as equivalent), as well as a high school diploma. http://corsi.unibo.it/1Cycle/DramaArtsMusic/Pages/default.aspx To the degree in DAMS, knowledge and skills are a good general education; logic and reasoning skills; ability to read, understand and interpret texts and documents (in Italian); …

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CREATIVE LIFE STYLES – When even the comics are able to form something new

The creative lifestyles, are characterized by nonconforming attitudes and behaviors. With the creativity, an idea or a musical composition, literary work or a painting, they are phenomenons whereby something new is formed. Who are the top cartoonists in the world? The people on this list are from different countries, but what they all have in common is that they’re all …

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THE REAL COLDNESS IS AT THE BOTTOM OF MY OFFENSIVE HEART – Andrea Pazienza, the Apulian who lived between Bologna and New York

ANDREA PAZIENZA 1/4 – He was born in San Benedetto Del Tronto, in May 1956. The first words he uttered after “mom and dad”, were “pencil and paper”. He really looked all over, but especially loved observing drawing. When the grandmother drew a giraffe, he carefully examined that animal, picked up a pencil and added small horns, forgotten by his …

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ANDREA PAZIENZA (1956/1988), CARTOONIST AND ITALIAN PAINTER – Caravaggio of cartoons

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PAINTING WITH PULPY STYLE, LIKE A BLACK FILM – Owen Smith: an almost proletarian sensitivity

OWEN SMITH 1/4 – His influences come from the walls paintings artists of the 1930s. While living in New York, he was commission to design a set of mosaic murals – permanently installed in a New York Subway Station at 36th Street Brooklyn – as a celebration of the working people who have made the subway what it is today, …

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