PAUL BAUDRY 1/3 – He was born in 1828 in the Vendée. His painter’s talent, from the first revealed itself as strictly academical, full of elegance and grace. In the course of his residence in Italy, he derived strong inspiration from Italian art (with the mannerism of Correggio). He remain an important portrait artist, who did not limit himself to …
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NEW ROOMS FOR BOTTICELLI AND RENAISSANCE – Uffizi Gallery / Florence
Beautiful light, it is true? The natural lighting from above, comes from deep splays practiced in the ceiling. After the work of renewal of the Uffizi Gallery, http://www.uffizi.beniculturali.it/index.php?en/200/information back in the public eye even 9-15 salt, ie those dedicated to the early Renaissance. Among the construction of new exhibition spaces and renovate existing facilities, go up to 7000 square meters …
Read More »CREATING A PARALLEL WORLD OF PAINTING – Adrian Borda: shades of color, between the classic and the modern
ADRIAN BORDA 1/3 – His paintings are a great visual exercise, the viewer returns again and again to meet them with new elements that had happened unnoticed the first time. He is a surreal painter and passionate photographer. Works in private collections all over the world, since he started to sell on eBay (United States, Hungary and Canada, France, Switzerland …
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SOME PLACES TO VISIT IN ROMANIA
Romania is a country of contrasts. http://romaniatourism.com/ Over the years, the country has belonged to the Romans (who gave the country its name), the Hungarians and the Ottomans. It is filled with quaint old towns, with mountain resorts that offer great skiing. It’s most famous citizen, may be the vampire Dracula (a fictional character found in Transylvania). Originally part of …
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Romanian culture, certainly was heavily influenced by the Eastern Orthodox Church. The earliest translated books into Romanian were Slavonic religious texts from the 15th century, and the first book printed in Romania was a Slavonic religious book in 1508. In the Romanian lands, dominated by the Ottoman Empire, they decided not to allow Romanian rulers, but through Greek merchants of …
Read More »LEADING PAGES OF ROMANIAN NOVELS – Mircea Cărtărescu
Mircea Cartarescu was born in 1956, is one of Romania’s leading novelists and poets. Like most of his literary contemporaries of the avant-garde Eighties Generation, his major work has been translated into several European languages. Graduated from the University of Bucharest’s Faculty of Letters, between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher (and then at the Writers …
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THE CREATIVE PATH OF A PAINTER – Giacomo Balla: walking toward Futurism
From Turin beginnings, the adhesion to the poetics of Futurism, this is the name of an art exhibition that takes place in Italy. Until February 27, 2017 you can go to Alba, where – in the spaces of Fondazione Piera Pietro and Giovanni Ferrero – are on display one hundred masterpieces, through which it will be possible to reconstruct the …
Read More »SHOCKINGLY BEAUTIFUL ART INSTALLATIONS ON YOUR TRACKS
What happens when you suspend a giant ball, above a city walkway, during the night? Maybe people look up from their phones, with new attention to the world around them. Says its creator (the Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, known for his whimsical urban installations), that its positive artistic statement, connects people to their childhood. You need to remember that the …
Read More »TRAVELING IN THE PLACES OF EMILY DICKINSON – Amherst / Massachusetts
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 »FREEDOM OF COMPOSITION AND COLOR – The light-intensity ratio of a painter named Federico
FEDERICO FARUFFINI 1/3 – His work is seen as a moment of transition between pictorialism and the Scapigliatura. He was an Italian painter of historical subjects, in a style that combines the themes of Realism with the outlines colors of Scapigliatura painters. Born inside the metropolitan area of Milan, he trained with Trecourt in Pavia. Until 1848, he attended the …
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AT A CASEMENT – Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City / Portrait of a Man and Woman
In 1420, he was admitted to the Carmelite Friars community (Priory of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Florence), after his parents had died. The little treasure – Portrait of a Man and Woman at a Casement – was born ca. 1440. With a view onto a landscape, this is the earliest surviving double portrait in Italy. The little painting …
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