Meeting Benches World art in all forms
CARLO SALOMONI, ITALIAN PAINTER – Where reality and fantasy are melted and collide beautifully
WHEN MUSICAL ATMOSPHERE THEY UNDERSTOOD ARTIST’S LIFE – Cecilia Beaux: the painter’s pilgrimage of a woman
CECILIA BEAUX 1/3 – She – an American society portraitist – have a passionate determination to overcome every obstacle, and really become one of the most famous portrait painters of her era. At age 16, she began art lessons, and produced decorative art and small portraits (also gave private art lessons). In 1876, Beaux began attending the Pennsylvania Academy of …
Read More »HEAT – Poetry, by Hilda Doolittle
Her special gift (her grandmother), bestows a sense of mystical connection to the Moravians. Hilda Doolittle was born into the Moravian community of her artistic mother, in Pennsylvania, and reared in a Philadelphia. There, her father was director of the Flower Observatory. Her “The Gift” is cast in the voice of a child, who is cognizant of own dreams and …
Read More »THE SECRET GARDEN – Romance, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Her first story was published in 1868. Her main talent as a writer? It was to blend a romantic plot with realistic details of the working class. Frances Hodgson Burnett was an English born playwright and author. After her father died, her family emigrated to the United States. It was there that she began writing. The statue depicts her two …
Read More »CECILIA BEAUX (1855/1942), AMERICAN PAINTER – She considered herself a New Woman
BUT A STORM IS BLOWING FROM PARADISE – New York Guggenheim Museum: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa
Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time of your life. Meeting Benches. The way to making the world a better place is easy. Where Guggenheim Museums? New York, Venice and Bilbao! Solomon R. Guggenheim, founded the Guggenheim Foundation to foster also for you an appreciation …
Read More »SONG – Poetry, by Amy Lowell
She was born to wealth, because her paternal grandfather developed the cotton industry of Massachusetts, where two towns (Lowell and Lawrence), are named for the families. Amy Lowell began a lifelong habit of book collecting, accepting a marriage proposal, but the young man set his heart on another woman. She went to Europe and Egypt, to improve her health. 1910, …
Read More »THE BEST HIP HOP – Rap Music Mix 2016
Best Hip Hop / Rap Music Mix 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp_Ym05Aa_U
Read More »LOVE IS ENOUGH – Poetry, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When she was a little angel, her mother wanted a girl child who can become a writer. Her mother believed in pre-natal influences (according to her, parents could influence the soul personality of their little angel child). Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born on a farm in Wisconsin, becoming an American poet, and “Poems of Passion” was her best-known work, and …
Read More »BOKETTO – Poetry, by Susan Rich
BOKETTO Outside my window it’s never the same, some mornings jasmine slaps the house, some mornings sorrow. There is a word I overheard today, meaning lost, not on a career path or across a floating bridge: Boketto, to stare out windows without purpose. Don’t laugh; it’s been too long since we leaned into the morning: bird friendly coffee and blueberry …
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