October 6, 2024 7:22 am

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THE FESTIVAL BEAUJOLAIS NOUVEAU: Waiting for the arrival of a special French guest

In the French region of Rhone-Alpes, on the third Thursday of November there comes a special guest: the Beaujolais Nouveau, one of the most famous French wines. It also, like other new wines, advises that came the autumn. On 20 November, this region awaits you, with celebrations preceded by a long night of waiting. The events planned for the celebration …

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THE FEAST OF HALF CHINESE FALL: Ten Suns, and birds with three legs, waiting for the immortality

This is the Mid-Autumn Festival, one of the most important holidays of the Chinese calendar. A special moment, where you too can eat moon cakes, and maybe even dancing, watching young women among the people while casting their colored handkerchiefs, waiting for loving hands that they collect, and their return, as a promise of love. Look up, breathing in the …

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ANTONIO BUENO (1918/1984), ITALIAN PAINTER: Telling the inner world, so kind and gentle, with color shades clean and accurate

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THE LONGEST SEASON OF LIFE: Antonio Bueno. A trip to Italy to find the dolls who felt he had, but he could not see

ANTONIO BUENO 1/4 – Being born from Spanish father and Polish mother, in Berlin, without imagining dying Italian. Hone the creative talent in Switzerland, France and Italy – so atypical and original – confronting the post-impressionism and abstract art, but also with the pop and neo-Dadaism, always attracted by comparison with its innovative character. ANTONIO BUENO 2/4 – The man …

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AUTUMN SHADES IN THE ART: Twenty painters, twenty shades of creativity, in a same season

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AUTUMNAL POEMS: When the crickets hiding in the tomb, in the meadows

AUTUMN: G. Rodari The hay it is mowed, the hunter shot. Autumn is opened: the cricket has walled in the grave, in the meadow.     YELLOW LEAVES: Trilussa But where do you go, poor yellow leaves, as many butterflies carefree? You come from afar or close? By a forest or a garden? And you do not hear the melancholy …

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ANTONIETTA RAPHAEL (1895/1975), LITHUNIAN PAINTER: Strong creative suggestions, in a garden of colorful memories

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ANTONIETTA RAPHAEL: combined compositive deformations, suspended in between the Naïve and the Chagallian oneiric fantasy

ANTONIETTA RAPHAEL 1/4 – Born in Lithuania, by Jewish parents and grow up in London (where he learned the secrets of sculpture by Jacob Epstein), Paris and Rome. Attend the Academy of Fine Arts and married an Italian painter, generating three daughters creative: a journalist, a writer and a designer. She produced portraits and landscapes, always characterised by a formal …

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DAYS AS FIELDS: Poetry, by Vladas Braziūnas

DAYS AS FIELDS Days as fields elongated lark gray Hold eye. Trembles and raves with human harmonies, a grain rolls in the depths of the sky. (Vladas Braziūnas)

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THREE SECONDS OF HEAVEN: Romance, by Sigitas Parulskis

THREE SECONDS OF HEAVEN Imagine a very short time, three seconds, in fact, your time suspended in the blue, the air that caresses you, waiting for your parachute opens. Robertas is the protagonist of the novel, and in the pages of this novel you find the memories of his military life, but also the love for Mary. Like any dive, …

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