A song appeared in the 1994 film Forrest Gump. In the first decades of the 21st century this place has experienced a renaissance, as an artist avant garde destination. Since 2010, it has evolved into site of postmodern art and design. Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City. Here you can admire the renowned Brooklyn Academy of …
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The anthropologist of American life. THOMAS HART BENTON was born in a April day in Neosho (Missouri), where politics was the core of family life, but with his mother’s encouragement, he chose to study art. Rebelling against the expectations of his family he moved to Chicago, where he enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago. In his paintings, he was …
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His illustration work inflected his paintings, helping to shape his technique. JOHN FRENCH SLOAN started his career as an illustrator. Between 1892 and 1915, illustration was his primary means of support on newspapers and magazines. Bornin in a August day in Lock Haven (Pennsylvania), he moved to Philadelphia with his family at the age of five. Grewing up in a …
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Drink a glass of lassi, eating a curry chapati. The attractions of the country include important archaeological sites, along with places of naturalistic interest on the slopes of the Himalayas. Its territory is considered the cradle of civilization, because it was home to several ancient cultures. In Pakistan, http://www.tourism.gov.pk/packages_promotions.html many empires and dynasties dominated, including the Persian Achaemenid empire, the …
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Looking for five creative art’s fruits. Living a kind of travel experience, along with the creative fruits of five famous Pakistani artists, it adds meaning to your life, even turning your life into a masterpiece. The intellectual property of the images that appear in this blog correspond to their authors. The sole purpose of this site, is to spread the …
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Longlisted for the Booker prize. Okara is a city in Pakistan, the capital of the district of the same name in the province of Punjab. The famous eatery in the city, it’s the Dawat Restaurant. According to customer and tourists’ reviews, this place https://www.facebook.com/pg/dawat.resturant/about/ not only have a wide variety in delicious food, but also has great ambiance. In this …
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Serious themes and more innovative forms. Its culture is characterized by the blending of Middle Eastern, Western and Asian influences. Located on the coast, Karachi has a mild climate, with low levels of rainfall. Port Grand is an extensive food street and entertainment complex located at Port of Karachi (near Native Jetty Bridge, in downtown). Here, you don’t only get …
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Playing in Pakistan’s underground music scene. It’s one of Pakistan’s most cosmopolitan cities. Lahore is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Punjab, located in the north-eastern end of this region. Lahore is home to the annual Literary Festival. The city hosts the famed Walled City, Sikh shrines and the Wazir Khan mosque. Here, also you can admire the …
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The pioneer woman of non-traditional pictorial imagery. For her, without sincerity there is no true art. With an art scholarship in 1950, she enrolled at a school of arts in London, and later to the Ecole des Beau Arts, Paris. In her early work, she attempted to explore also surrealistic paintings. Creating paintings (that will enable future generations to share …
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Asian roots and shifting Identities. To explore social and political issues, her work uses the contemporary miniature form. Her work offers a voice against ignorance and prejudice, also through the use of caricature and satire. SAIRA WASIM she went to Lahore’s National College of Arts, where she graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Arts. Her art has been shown in …
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When creativity is a bean soup with black cabbage and corn meal. Visiting Italy, you too can create something unique, following a special art route from Portogruaro walk you leads you to Genoa, with its original and valuable masterpieces, novels and poems. Living this kind of travel experience, along with the creative fruits of five famous Italians, it adds meaning …
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Looking for creative Italian fruits. Living a kind of travel experience, along with the creative fruits of five famous Italians, it adds meaning to your life, even turning your life into a masterpiece. The intellectual property of the images that appear in this blog correspond to their authors. The sole purpose of this site, is to spread the knowledge of …
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Between an aquarium and a small mountain village. The Genoa Aquarium https://www.acquariodigenova.it/ is the first in Europe for animal species (second by surface). This huge aquarium (near the port), has species of freshwater fish, in tanks that reproduce the ecosystem. In this city, do not forget to enter the Palazzo Ducale, http://www.palazzoducale.genova.it/ one of its main historical buildings, former seat …
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Memories over infamous sweet rocks. He was born in Genoa in 1855 in a bourgeois family, dividing his life between his work in the bank and writing in newspapers of the time. If you read a particular poem of his you will find the word “gnà gnoa”. That is the existential anguish that the poet CARLO MALINVERNI managed to soothe with …
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When loneliness can lead to extraordinary forms of creativity. In Genoa, in winter as in summer, Quarto’s seafront offers you panoramas where the eye is lost in the horizon of the Ligurian Sea, the one that offers the best fish to bring to the table. Right on the seafront of Quarto waiting for you the Olivè restaurant, http://www.ristoranteolive.it/ the one …
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Meeting Benches World art in all forms