Meeting Benches World art in all forms
JOAN MIRO’ (1893/1983), SPANISH PAINTER: The simplest things, give ideas. He expressed in raw colors, with lines and lines
WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY: Guitar Orchestra of Barcelona
GUITAR ORCHESTRA OF BARCELONA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KvC9H9vsTY
Read More »ECO: Poetry, by Joan Brossa
ECO ¿PodrÃas decirme qué es el sol? El sol. ¿Y la luna, podrÃas? Es la luna. ¿Y por qué llora Pedro inconsolable? Porque en su vida no ha tenido suerte. ¿Y qué son las montañas, las estrellas? Son solamente estrellas y montañas. ¿Y estas raÃces qué? ¿Y qué estas cañas? Pues no son más que cañas y raÃces. ¿Qué es …
Read More »THE CITY MARVELS: Romance, Eduardo Mendoza Garriga
THE CITY MARVELS In his novel, the writer paints with words a city and its atmosphere. Everything is set in a time long gone, around the beginning of the twentieth century. Reading you will know the protagonist of this story – Onofrio Bouvila – a boy becomes a man, taking care of his life. What will surprise you, reading, will …
Read More »MARK KOSTABI, AMERICAN PAINTER: Faceless bodies, inside an astonishing system of signs
WAIT: Poetry, by Galway Kinnell
WAIT Wait, for now. Be’ wary of all if you have to. But trust hours. Do not they have perhaps taken anywhere, up to now? Personal events you will again interesting. The hair will get interesting. The pain will be interesting. The buds that open off season get interesting. Used gloves you will again pretty; their memories are what gives …
Read More »TIMELESS BOOKS: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
THE ROAD A father and a son, a road to the south, a looming catastrophe. This is what you are starting to read inside this novel. Energy resources and technology are degraded to a minimum. Inside the pages of this book – perhaps – you too will experience a thrill, sharing with the two protagonists foraging and climatic rigidity. The …
Read More »WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY: Never Let You Down, by Woodkid feat. Lykke Li
NEVER LET YOU DOWN Will you come along cause I’m about to leave this town, in my eyes, a waterfall, all I can hear, a siren call, could you be waiting by the shore, oh I could drown without you. Will you be holding out the line when I fall? I’ll never let you down, never let you down, never …
Read More »ANNA ANCHER (1859/1935), DANISH PAINTER: A world apart, made by colors and sensibility
WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY: – Time to Say Goodbye/Con te partirò, by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli
The Meeting Benches way: a perfectly proportioned man, created by Leonardo da Vinci, correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. That geometrical way of the mind, could live with the simplicity of the sides of a charming square, where joy, surprise, expectations and approval are four emotions in motion. What you see, hear, eat and …
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