Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man …
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AUSTRALIA TOURS & TRAVEL
Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …
Read More »CLOUDSTREET – Novel by Tim Winton
His writing often contains messages or themes which act as an ‘eye-opener’ to his audiences. Timothy Winton is an Australian novelist that was born in Karrinyup (Western Australia) but that he moved to the regional city of Albany at age of 12. He wrote his first novel in 1981, launching his writing career, but it wasn’t until “Cloudstreet” was published …
Read More »POETRY LIBRARY / AUSTRALIA – Dorothy Porter
Her first collection signalled the arrival of a new voice on the Australian poetry. Her ability to convey the heat of passion is a first secret of her repertoire. Dorothy Porter reminded us that poetry could handle many, many sensations and emotions, as quiet intimacy orjealousy, seduction, wild sex and obsession, that suggest love in its various phases. Always, she …
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EILEEN GRAY / THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL – Cap Moderne, France
Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …
Read More »UNTIL HIS LAST SPRING – Zvest Apollonio, when the colors of the Mediterranean will light
ZVEST APOLLONIO 1/3 – Zvest Apollonio 1/3 – He was convinced that the time and place of his birth, 1935, Bertocchi Koper, Istria), were not a coincidence, but are factors that had greatly affected his life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIWg3m14Tps With his mother spoke in Slovene, with his father in Italian. Bilingualism had helped him to learn with foreign languages. ZVEST APOLLONIO 2/3 …
Read More »ZVEST APOLLONIO (1935/2009), SLOVENIAN PAINTER – When time and space affected the life
SLOVENIAN INNER MUSICAL LANDSCAPE
The Vitruvian Man, is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the architect Vitruvius. The drawing, depicts a man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in a circle and square. Leonardo’s image has become much more than a literal illustration of a proportional canon. …
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A DIFFICULT SPRING – Romance by Boris Pahor
He was born into a Slovene minority community in Trieste. That writer, he is internationally most notable for his Holocaust experiences as described in the novel Necropolis. Boris Pahor is a prominent public figure in the Slovene minority in Italy. He was awarded order of the Legion of Honour by the French government, the Cross of Honour for Science and …
Read More »ON THE BORDER OF THE DISTANCE – Slovenian Poems in the moonlight, in the short days of April
The Vitruvian Man, is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the architect Vitruvius. The drawing, depicts a man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in a circle and square. Leonardo’s image has become much more than a literal illustration of a proportional canon. …
Read More »THE DREAM CITY – Piran, Slovenia
The Vitruvian Man, is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the architect Vitruvius. The drawing, depicts a man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in a circle and square. Leonardo’s image has become much more than a literal illustration of a proportional canon. …
Read More »PAINTING BETWEEN TRADITION AND INNOVATION – Istvan Csok
ISTVAN CSOK 1/3 – He was a Hungarian Impressionist painter, that lived and exhibited in Paris for a portion of his life. István Csók was born in 1865, inside a February day, becoming most famous in Hungary for his nudes, portraits, and landscapes of the Lake Balaton. Similarly to the other young artists of his time, he studied at the …
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