Meeting Benches World art in all forms
PAL SZINYEI MERSE (1845/1920), HUNGARIAN PAINTER – The harmonious effect of complementary and contrasting colours
SEARCHIN FOR FORMS AND COLOUR OF HIS COUNTRY – Martin Benka: where people lived in communion with nature
MARTIN BENKA 1/3 – Searching for forms and colours of Slovakia, he would visit regions where people lived in communion with nature. He was born in 1888, inside a September day, in the family of an carpenter with a small farm, as the youngest of six children living. Modesty and sensitive towards people taught him by his mother (a model …
Read More »MARTIN BENKA (1888/1971), SLOVAK PAINTER – Its purpose was to combine the cooperation of different kinds of art
WHERE GREW A LOT OF CELEBRITIES – Sounds, souls and songs from Prešov
Through movement everything manifests. Life starts with sound, and sound creates movement. Inner Musical Landscapes is our musical proposal, that invites you to travel into your moods. Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com an inspiration to relax into your inner presence, through heedful listening of the musicians and lands where you’re traveling, also in Prešov. From this town come a lot of famous …
Read More »WHERE THE 49TH PARALLEL OF NORTH LATITUDE RUNS – Some reasons to visit / Slovakia
It is one of the oldest royal towns in Slovakia. First habitants came to that region already in Paleolithic period. Prešov was founded in 1132 by Blind Béla (King of Hungary). The city used to be a part of that Kingdom in the end of 11th century, and actually the city it is located in eastern Slovakia, with many beautiful …
Read More »THE HIGH TATRAS / SLOVAKIA – Touching to the sky, looking waterfalls and rare animals
When we say High Tatras, we mean majestic peaks touching to the sky, dark turquoise mountain lakes, waterfalls and rare animals. The massif has several valleys, which lend themselves to winter sports and hiking, or even mountain-climbing. The High Tatras – which extends into Poland – contains some of the highest summits in Slovakia. http://slovakia.travel/en/national-park-of-high-tatras Between the Krivan and the …
Read More »TRAVEL ABOUT YORKSHIRE – The impossible guide to Yorkshire County /England
Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man …
Read More »BASING BACKGROUND COLOURS ON THE COLOURS YOU FEEL – David Hockney, painting while listening music
DAVID HOCKNEY 1/3 – He was born in Bradford, England, in 1937, and attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s, where he painted his famous swimming pool paintings. English painter, but also photographer and stage designer. He made apparent his facility as a draughtsman while studying at Bradford School of Art. DAVID HOCKNEY …
Read More »DAVID HOCKNEY, ENGLISH PAINTER – Synesthetic colours in response to musical impulses
WHAT’S ON IN YORKSHIRE – Bradford: Museums & Galleries
Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …
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