EDWARD HOPPER 1/4 – He was born next to the Hudson River north of New York City. He began art studies with a correspondence course. During its life, he is best known for his oil paintings. His search for inspiration, least painfully found in the stimulation of new surroundings. EDWARD HOPPER 2/4 – Hopper’s parents encouraged his art, with materials, …

PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT Seven chapters, connected by an invisible thread, that is a monologue, one between Alexander and his psychoanalyst. By reading, you also find that the temporal levels of the narrative is moved by invisible thread of memory and internal drives. The man who complains – Alexander Portnoy – is any human being, with a personal set of delusions and …

Thanksgiving and pumpkin bread, hot dog buns and apple pie. Enjoy your meal, hoping that while you eat, you “feel” a little of America, even in its smells, tastes and cultural traditions, because this may be a way – special – to know the country you are visiting. The Meeting Benches way: a perfectly proportioned man, was created by Leonardo …

CHEN YIFEI 1/4 – He was born in in Ningbo (coastal Zhejiang Province).   Famous Chinese classic painter, he is a central figure in the development of Chinese oil painting. He was famous for his big Mao portraits and depiction of grand heroic events of the modern Chinese nation. In his oil paintings, he abandoned his uncritical glorification of the party, …

NIGHT’S VIGIL In the deep night vigil the moonlight cuts through men and houses, the Great Bear cross the skies in the north, Sagittarius declines in the south. On this night I mean better the warm air of spring: entry of insects again penetrates the green veil of the window. (Liu Fang-P’ing) THOUGHT LOOKING The network image, launched, widens more …

What you read, you talk of a China immersed in medieval times of pre-revolutionary social decomposition. Leafing through the pages of the novel, you will discover the young Songlian, a girl who agrees to become the fourth wife and concubine of rich Chen Zuoqian. You must adapt to the rules that the “home” requires wives (the husband has – among …

THE CHINA SOUND https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xtYkrSILYs

To know what are the best Chinese food to savor, but also learn to use “the chopsticks”, much easier to use than you think. Yes, this is also “feel” the country you are visiting. Welcome to China, where you will never forget the first time culinary, eat when steamed ravioli (stuffed with fresh vegetables or with meat). Another first course, …