Meeting Benches World art in all forms

When you are talking about the Silk Road http://www.turismocinese.it/itinerari/la-via-della-seta/ we refer to the road that allowed large western empires touching China, through Central Asia. Take that route (which links Xi’an with Istanbul), moving from east to west. Silk started all from China. Over the centuries, the path followed by the merchants has changed, so it is difficult to identify a …

CHINA’S TRAIN TOURS In ancient times, the Silk Road was China’s link with central Asia and Europe. You can retrace this epic route by the privately chartered Orient Express, unveiling the mystery of this legendary route. The China train tours, are carefully designed catering to different needs. All of them are flexible, and can be customized to suit your budget. …

A train journey can be a terrible thing or comic. Maybe you are not the son of a railwayman, but you too spent a lot of time daydreaming on trains. Sometimes, of the memory of a trip on the train we just have a broken pencil on a seat, a forgotten object from the traveling companion, which had not had …

In a year, 500,000 passengers use this train on the part of Italian line (one million of the Swiss). This is a special trip, in an explosion of colors and golden atmosphere. Before leaving, you should know that this is a slow journey (two hours to travel 52 km), on the scenic railroad that runs through the autumn colors of …

Like poetry, also love accompanies the story of our lives. Its roots in the mists of time, poetry has preserved for us the story of distant eras. Love and poetry, constitute one of the most inseparable pairs that have accompanied the evolution of our culture. Write poems, he coincided with talk about love. Inside this great poetic horizon, countless were …

CUI XIUWEN 1/4 – For some years, we are witnessing the establish itself on the international scene of contemporary Chinese artists. The Chinese avant-garde today, creating interaction with European and oriental patterns, also develops explicit references to famous works of the past. That artist became interested in creating new representations of her work. Her first foray into the world of …

Why are the Chinese so creative? Maybe you know that the Chinese, are known for skill in carving ornate ivory items, and cutting paper patterns and human hair pictures. Yes, everyone also knows the Chinese use Chinese characters in their language, but maybe the Chinese brain is more geared towards the artistic than the rest of the world. Of it …

CHINESE POEMS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY – Many people loves to read. Our proposal call any web-traveler to sit into Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com to share written emotions, observing new creative horizons. In his book (How to Read and Why), Harold Bloom says that we should read slowly, with love and with our inner ear cocked. By reading a written description, …

JOHN CURRIN 1/4 – Without boundaries, his way of expressing creativity ranges between reality and fiction, between obscene and refined. His female eros interpretation offers you a panoramic expressive works over almost surreally grotesque. He is a very sophisticated, painter: both the technical level and the visual culture. What he offers you through his works, it is a way to …

Remembered for his intensely pessimistic attitude towards the human condition and life, he was a significant figure of the Italian Romanticism era. The extraordinarily lyrical quality of his poetry, made him a central protagonist in the European and literary and cultural landscape. His own literary evolution, created a remarkable and renowned poetic work, related to the Romantic era. Giacomo Leopardi …

All we know, is that the statues were cast between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD. That equestrian group, is the only one of its kind to have survived from the Roman age. The group includes two horsemen and two women (whom experts have not yet been able to identify). For the men, most suggest Nero, Julius …