Meeting Benches World art in all forms

“Everyone brings on its face the dust of the road he did.” This is what to us remember, with a wise proverb, the native Indians of North America. Starting to Route 66 http://meetingbenches.com/2016/08/ready-for-the-big-adventure-choose-your-kicks-on-route-66/ on our face we have the memory of California, a special imprint http://meetingbenches.com/2016/08/inner-landscapes-california/ made of views and music, a book, and poems but also some pictures, along …

PRIMO CONTI 1/3 – 1911 is the year of his artistic debut, along with the youth studies on the human figure, the precocious interest for the Fauve art, a prelude to the brilliant futurist. He has been able to receive the most alive and fruitful moods of Futurism, creating a fresh paint and filled with poetry. Always ready to question …

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 …

MARGARET KEANE 1/3 – She created a unique, popular artistic aesthetic during the 1960s, though unknown to the public for some time. She was born on September day in 1927 in Nashville (Tennessee). She immersed herself in art from an early age, and had a penchant for creating characters with large, looming eyes, her distinctive way to paintin of large-eyed …

He knew he wanted to be a writer from a relatively early age. Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American novelist, and was born in Detroit, to a father of Greek descent He attended Grosse Pointe’s private University Liggett School and took his undergraduate degree at Brown University. From 1999 to 2004, Eugenides lived in Berlin, Germany, where he moved after …

FLYING AT FORTY – Poem by Erica Jong You call me courageous, I who grew up gnawing on books, as some kids gnaw on bubble gum, who married disastrously not once but three times, yet have a lovely daughter, I would not undo for all the dope in California. Fear was my element, fear my contagion. I swam in it, …

Arielle – California https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvvUjZ0xDQY Teaser California Sounds – Stevie Ann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOnuPIXLJ8Y Relaxing 3 Hour Video of California Ocean Waves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmPzbZVUp3g OC California Music + Pictures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKjoUUR2l8k

Visiting the viewing deck of Santa Monica, after filling our eyes with the color of the Ocean Avenue gardens, we were hungry, hungry for shrimp and prawns. The good reviews featured (along the renowned fame due to the film), they were led up to the number 87 Aquarium Way (Long Beach, California). Shrimp and fresh fish, are the dishes that …

United States, California, western Los Angeles County, Santa Monica. The city (named after the Christian saint, Monica), situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is bordered on three sides by the city of Los Angeles. Santa Monica had become a famed resort town by the early 20th century, but was long inhabited by the Tongva people, and was called Kecheek in …

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 …

SATURNINO HERRAN 1/3 – His work was part of a movement called “syntheticism”, of which he was the best representative. Though he died at 31 years old, his legacy is solid. The only child of a Mexican father and a French Swiss mother, he was born in Aguascalientes on a July day, in 1887. He showed early talent and at …