CONTEMPORARY INDIAN POETRY – Adil Jussawalla, poems
HER SAFE HOUSE – Mother walking up a corridor with a stick, as frail as tissue paper, bunched on a stick. Moving up a corridor inch by inch, a hairball being pushed by a breeze, into her safe house, her sonless kitchen. BOMB SITE SEEN FROM A RAILWAY BRIDGE – As if the broken stumps were a girl’s starved shoulders: …
Read More »INDIAN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE – The Unwaba Revelations, novel by Samit Basu
Samit Basu is the author of The Simoqin Prophecies, The Manticore’s Secret and The Unwaba Revelations, the three parts of The GameWorld Trilogy. Born 14 December 1979 in a Bengali Hindu family, Basu grew up in Calcutta. In 2007, Basu was declared one of India’s most promising ‘Emerging Indians’. Basu is a columnist, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker and freelance journalist writing …
Read More »WHEN THE MUSIC BEGAN INTEGRAL PART OF LIFE – Indian Music
Music has always occupied a central place in the imagination of Indians. The range of musical phenomenon in India, and indeed the rest of South Asia, extends from simple melodies, commonly encountered among hill tribes, to what is one of the most well- developed “systems” of classical music in the world. Music in India began as an integral part of …
Read More »INDIAN RECIPES – Explore the best of Indian cooking with top-rated recipes
Indian Cooking has two different traditions. The first (widespread in the North), which makes use of meat and the second (widespread in the South), essentially vegetarian. South Indian cuisine, is one that is characterized by the great use of spices used to flavor dishes and accompanying vegetables. In Indian cuisine, extensive use is made of eggs, milk and dairy products. …
Read More »BREATHED LIFE – S. Ilayaraja and the everyday moment od Dravidian women life
About Dravidian woman, he has breathed life into the faces and lives of uncaptured people, the common crowd in everday moments of life. Exquisite innocent expresions with delicate play of light and fine details will captivate you with its like realism. He has revived a writing from of traditional painting style in today’s times and has quickly acquired a strong …
Read More »ILAYARAJA, INDIAN PAINTER – Dravidian women and breathed life
COMPLEX NUDES IN TWISTED POSES – Cornelis Van Haarlem and the Mannerist School
During the Eighty Years’ War, he loses contact with his parents, and a painter – Pieter Pietersz – has become his first teacher. In those years, he could not know that he would become a famous painter of the Mannerist school of Haarlem, painting large canvases in biblical or mythological subject, often with stylized characters, and even in grotesque poses. …
Read More »THE RESTLESS RENAISSANCE OF LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER – Altarpieces, court portraits and Protestant Reformers, along a innumerable pictures of women
He is the artist who had created an artistic workshop in Wittenberg, introducing important changes in the pictorial landscape of his time, and with the colors also representing the nude and eroticism, with an extreme attention to detail. His desire to change, become pictorial reality, where everything that is not traditional, sensuality, charm and the pleasure of life, hovering lightly, …
Read More »THE MAN CALLED SWIFTEST OF PAINTERS – Lucas Cranach The Elder: when art become popular, in period of great political upheavals
MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / PARIS – Lucas Cranach The Elder: Three Graces
Lucas Cranach the Elder, was friends with all of the big hitters of his Renaissance Germany: painter Albrecht Durer, reformist Martin Luther, and the various Electors and Emperors for whom he painted. Apart from being a very successful painter, he was a estimable businessman. The Three Graces (small tempera on panel, which measures 37×24 cm), was painted by him around …
Read More »MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / AMSTERDAM – Cornelis van Haarlem: Bathsheba at her bath
Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman, was one of the leading Northern Mannerist artists in The Netherlands, and an important forerunner of Frans Hals as a portraitist. There was the year 1594, and he painted an oil on convas (height 77.5 cm, width: 64 cm), writing on the left, monogram and date: CCH 1594. It was born …
Read More »CORNELIS VAN HAARLEM (1562/1638), DUTCH PAINTER – The brand of Mannerism: complex nudes in twisted poses, besides mythological and kitchen scenes
THE ELEVENTH SONNET TO BEAUTY – Poetry, by Gerbrand Bredero
THE ELEVENTH SONNET TO BEAUTY O ripe bosom white that steadily before mine eyes, so dearly drifts, like the clear reflection, at the source of the Rhine of the purest snow. Ah but your shimmering, o weak eyes doth impair! With chaste milk appear there laden, two silver covers round, on top of both a ruby, which like small apples …
Read More »THE SHIP OF FOOLS – Introduction, by Sebastian Brant
THE SHIP OF FOOLS, INTRODUCTION Knowledge of trouth, prudence, and iust symplicite hath vs clene left. For we set of them no store. Our Fayth is defyled loue, goodnes, and Pyte: honest maners nowe ar reputed of, no more. Lawyers ar lordes, but Justice is rent and tore. Or closed lyke a Monster within dores thre. For without mede, or …
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