Meeting Benches World art in all forms

Hunger, it tells the story of an unnamed vagrant who stumbles around the streets of Norway’s capital looking for food. The great shock that the Nordic literature procured in the Europe of the late nineteenth century, is related to a novel by Knut Hamsun, Hunger (published in 1890). A young writer, passes a period of winding reflections in the city …

CHRISTIAN KROHG 1/3 – Inspired by the ideas of the realists he chose motives primarily from everyday life, Christian Krohg – in the 1880s and 1890 – he was a central figure in the debates about Norwegian culture, also developing an interest in naturalism and socially engaged art. In 1873, he moved to Karlsruhe, where he enrolled in the workshop …

Gustav Klimt, an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement, a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. He was born near Vienna, and lived in poverty while attending the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts. In 1888, he received the Golden Order of Merit, from Emperor Franz Josef. In …

He was a Spanish painter (but also sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright), who spent most of his adult life in France. Pablo Picasso, is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, and demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. He showed a passion and a skill for …

Henri Matisse, a revolutionary and influential artist of the early 20th century (known for the expressive color and form of his Fauvist style). He had a major creative breakthrough in the years 1904-05. A visit to Saint-Tropez in southern France inspired him to paint bright, light-dappled canvases. Although his subjects were traditional (nudes, figures in landscapes, portraits, interior views), his …

Editor of the magazine “The new guide” and director of “The quarterly magazine”, Albert Verwey founded and directed “The movement”, the creative container that fueled the new post-symbolist trends. He also taught at the University of Leiden. As contemplative poet, he has given us amazing pages, picking up his literary inspiration in timeless books: “Land” in 1896, “The Way of …

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PIETER DE HOOCH 1/3 – He was a contemporary of Jan Vermeer, and was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway. There is no document to prove that De Hooch and Vermeer were friends or had any professorial relations, but the similarities between their paintings must imply that there …

Yes, Langston Hughes was a prolific writer. In the forty-odd years between his first book in 1926 and his death.He received a scholarship to Lincoln University (in Pennsylvania). In 1923, he traveled to the Africa, visiting Senegal and Nigeria, the Cameroons, Belgium Congo and Angola, and later visiting Europe (Italy and France, Russia and Spain). One of Hughes’ finest essays …

Baroque Music from The Netherlands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-x3g0OIaJ0 Traditional Dutch Music – Dutch Windmills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQxITYASgBI Dutch music top 40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v49C5iDS-cs Choose a bench where you can publish what you have painted, what you have written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or the story of a journey that you have made. Past and Present are here and now. Our proposal …

The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio), is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi. Reading you can discover the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father (a poor woodcarver named Geppetto). http://www.collodi.com/la-fiaba-originale-di-pinocchio.asp http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2m89uu That novel it has been adapted in over 240 languages worldwide, making it among the most translated and widely …

The Iberian peninsula, has had a history of receiving different musical influences from around the Mediterranean Sea and across Europe. Spanish music is often associated with traditional styles such as flamenco and classical guitar (but while these forms of music are common in Spain, there are many different traditional music styles and dances across its regions). The jota is widespread …