November 23, 2024 4:40 pm

A DYNAMIC AND FREE BRUSHWORK, INTO REALISTICALLY PAINTED IMAGES – George Bellows, a painter able to straddle both the academic and progressive movements

Action scenes, expressive portraits and seascapes Portraiture immortalizes a person through the face, but more specifically with his eyes, the mirror of his soul. Posture and gestures also contribute to creatively inspire the painter, helping him to focus and capture what a subject tells him without speaking, such as contagious happiness or imprisoned sadness. Welcome to Columbus, in Ohio. Its …

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AWAY FROM STATIC POSES, LOOKING FOR AN ANTICONFORMIST STYLE – Richard Avedon, one of the great masters of photography

When photography filters life through the light of style Located on the Lower East Side, it was founded in 1974 by a brother of photographer Robert Capa. Museum, school and research center that revolves around photography, the International Center of Photography in New York (ICP) https://www.icp.org/, awaits you to show you practice and understanding of photographic art. Not surprisingly, Richard …

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ANOTHER WAY FOR BEING TRAVELER – Six ways of saying travel, across the United States

Into the land of the free, home of the brave You can choose remote places and unique experiences, nostalgia for the past or attraction for the future. Travel thematically to the United States https://viewfinder.expedia.com/13-weird-us-places-see-believe/ offers opportunities for all tastes. The horizon of your perspectives extends from the Hawaiian paradises to Florida, but you can also opt for itineraries of the …

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ITALIAN CREATIVITY, EVEN SEWING SUNFLOWERS FOR BUTTONS – Journey into contemporary creativity, discovering the Italian art of being reborn

Italian artists between genres and modes of expression, open to the languages of creativity Its name has magic in its very syllables, because Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life. The Giro d’Italia is a men’s road cycling stage race, established in 1909 and which takes place annually along the Italian roads. …

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A TRAIN, TWO SISTERS AND A DIABOLIC THIEF – Angela e Luciana Giussani, beautiful and cultured, in an unprecedented enterprise

A crime story and the birth of a cartoon character Their comic book also inspired a film, a radio show, an animated TV series and countless parodies. Two Italian sisters, Angela and Luciana Giussani  (born in Milan in 1922 and 1928), becomed famous for Diabolik, their comic book anti-hero series created in 1962, that has sold more than 150 million …

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A PAINTER OUT OF THE SCHEMES – Giorgio Morandi, the painter who transforms the environment into works of art

A formal rigor imbued with meditation and contemplation Having become one of the most original protagonists of Italian painting of the twentieth century, he is considered among the greatest world engravers. The works of Cézanne and Picasso influenced him. Born in Bologna into a July day 1890, Giorgio Morandi https://www.focus.it/cultura/arte/giorgio-morandi studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, studying …

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THE SICILY OF AN EDITOR, IN STILL IMAGES – Enzo Sellerio, neorealist photographer and poet of disenchantment

A concrete commitment, as part of the Sicilian reality after World War II. Among his publications are books about traditional Sicilian artifacts. His black-and-white photographs depicted public aspects of Sicilian life. There is the world seen from Sicily in his photographic shots, where he captured the wonderful images of the small streets of Palermo, where the children of Kalsa with …

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THE IRRIVERENT STYLIST OF THE FASHION WORLD – Franco Moschino, the pop stylist of Italian fashion

A stylist and his way of doing fashion For him, a nonconformist fashion designer who loved to be considered a painter and decorator, there was no creativity without chaos. To finance his studies, he worked as a freelance fashion illustrator for fashion houses and magazines. Franco Moschino https://www.moschino.com/eeu_en/ was born in Abbiategrasso, had interested in fine art and moved to …

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ARTURO’S ISLAND, NOVEL BY ELSA MORANTE – Writing about a strange hope, which at times weakens consciences, as if it were a vice

When no affection in life equals that of the mother Perhaps also for you, as for her, nature leads you to consider the games of the unexpected too arbitrary, sometimes more than they are. Italian novelist, poet and children’s books author, with her novel History, entered in the List of 100 Best Books of All Time. Except for a brief …

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TRIP TO ITALY – You may have the universe if may travelling Italy

You do not need a therapist, just a good travel agent for Italy There are books on travel that can change your life, offering you the opportunity to take unusually original or completely banal itineraries. What matters is to leave light – inside and out – gathering the essence of traveling even while walking in Italy, sometimes invisible to the …

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KNOWING PASSIONATE AND PRACTICAL AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS – Where creative language it has a vocabulary of six people

To know excessive creativity If the time has come to change even in your life, decide to go to Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCgKd7oghLI. You will have to learn to relate to its large spaces, where Aboriginal culture and cosmopolitan cities seem to integrate incredibly together. Within these endless red-painted horizons, the Indian Pacific train connects two cities, Sydney and Adelaide. Give yourself …

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