Street Art and Graffiti, two shades creative, anonymous artists, give all of us, and their art galleries do not have timetable, because the place that these creative people have chosen is the road, that is a public space, shared by all.Graffiti, it communicates through spray, but street art creates real marvels, starting from a particular period (around the seventies), in …
Read More »EDWARD HOPPER (1882/1967), AMERICAN PAINTER: It isn’t the subject that counts but what you feel about it
PAINTING ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM IN STYLE: Forget about art and paint pictures of what interests you in life. This is the way of Robert Hooper
EDWARD HOPPER 1/4 – He was born next to the Hudson River north of New York City. He began art studies with a correspondence course. During its life, he is best known for his oil paintings. His search for inspiration, least painfully found in the stimulation of new surroundings. EDWARD HOPPER 2/4 – Hopper’s parents encouraged his art, with materials, …
Read More »PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT: Novel, by Philip Roth
PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT Seven chapters, connected by an invisible thread, that is a monologue, one between Alexander and his psychoanalyst. By reading, you also find that the temporal levels of the narrative is moved by invisible thread of memory and internal drives. The man who complains – Alexander Portnoy – is any human being, with a personal set of delusions and …
Read More »WHAT YOU FEEL, WHEN YOU EAT IN AMERICAN STYLE: Even inside the smells, you can feel your journey
Thanksgiving and pumpkin bread, hot dog buns and apple pie. Enjoy your meal, hoping that while you eat, you “feel” a little of America, even in its smells, tastes and cultural traditions, because this may be a way – special – to know the country you are visiting. The Meeting Benches way: a perfectly proportioned man, was created by Leonardo …
Read More »CHEN YIFEI (1946/2005), CHINESE PAINTER: Not only melancholic and lonely women in traditional dresses
EXPRESSIVE BRUSHSTORKES FOR REALISTIC PAINTINGS: Chen Yifei, combination of both Western and Eastern influences
CHEN YIFEI 1/4 – He was born in in Ningbo (coastal Zhejiang Province).  Famous Chinese classic painter, he is a central figure in the development of Chinese oil painting. He was famous for his big Mao portraits and depiction of grand heroic events of the modern Chinese nation. In his oil paintings, he abandoned his uncritical glorification of the party, …
Read More »CHINESE POEMS: Warm spring expands, while raising clouds
NIGHT’S VIGIL In the deep night vigil the moonlight cuts through men and houses, the Great Bear cross the skies in the north, Sagittarius declines in the south. On this night I mean better the warm air of spring: entry of insects again penetrates the green veil of the window. (Liu Fang-P’ing) THOUGHT LOOKING The network image, launched, widens more …
Read More »RAISE THE RED LANTERN: Novel, by Su Tong
What you read, you talk of a China immersed in medieval times of pre-revolutionary social decomposition. Leafing through the pages of the novel, you will discover the young Songlian, a girl who agrees to become the fourth wife and concubine of rich Chen Zuoqian. You must adapt to the rules that the “home” requires wives (the husband has – among …
Read More »CHINA’S SOUND: Liu Fang
THE CHINA SOUND https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xtYkrSILYs
Read More »CHINESE FLAVOURS: Chopsticks and jasmine tea, eating Peking duck and moon cakes
To know what are the best Chinese food to savor, but also learn to use “the chopsticks”, much easier to use than you think. Yes, this is also “feel” the country you are visiting. Welcome to China, where you will never forget the first time culinary, eat when steamed ravioli (stuffed with fresh vegetables or with meat). Another first course, …
Read More »TETSUYA ISHIDA (1973/2005), JAPANISE PAINTER: Surrealistic shades of inner world
THE IMAGINATIVE USE OF SURREALISM: Tetsuya Ishida, where the inanimate objects are imbued with, taking on a living existence
TETSUYA ISHIDA 1/4 – Surreal portrayal of an ordinary Japanese life, its the creative world of an joung artist, strucked by a train. His paintings, depict humanoid figures in surreal environments, reflecting on uncertainty and unease. Yes, Ishida’s art involves an imaginative use of surrealism. TETSUYA ISHIDA 2/4 – He entered Musashino Art University where he majored in Visual Communication …
Read More »JAPANESE POEMS: The flower necklaces, for a traveler
THE WANDERER You would at home love in the arms would rest, poor traveler. Here, along the way, dissolves on a bed of grass. (Shotoku Taishi) FALL FLOWERS In the glasses of sake plum petals float. After drinking with his best friend fall well flowers … (Otomo No Sakanoue) A NECKLACE FOR YOU White dew drops plumes on cane my …
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