Meeting Benches World art in all forms

ANDREAS FRANKE 1/4 – He is  Austrian art photographer and a lover of scuba diving. He was introduced to photography at an early age, when he was given a Polaroid camera as a present.  “Everything started with this camera,” he says, but at first he had to become an engineer, as it was a family expectation. When he was 16, …

JASON deCAIRES TAYLOR 1/4 – was born in 1974 in Dover, United Kingdom. He was the only son of an English father and Guyanese mother. He grew up in Europe and Asia. He spent much of his early childhood exploring the coral reefs. Further he studied at Camberwell College of Arts, Institute of London, where he graduated in 1998 with …

Spectacular underwater galleries make divers fall under their spell and display the work of the ocean itself. During the weeks and months under water the ocean hand down impressive, peerless traces to the pictures. These underwater museums turn the ocean floor into art galleries : GRENADA, West Indies – first underwater sculpture park In 2006, Jason deCaires Taylor founded and …

SANTIAGO GARCIA 1/4 – the artist was born in 1974 in Montevideo, Uruguay. When Santiago Garcia was growing up, he often explored the fields and meadows that surrounded his home. He was fascinated with the animals that roamed the countryside. He studied biology in college first. As self-taught painter, Garcia produced an immense body of work in his early years. …

VASKO TASKOVSKI 1/4 – He was born in 1937 in the village of Nižopole, Bitola in the southwestern part of the Macedonia (former Yugoslavia). As the first post-war generation of children, there were no books for primers in school in Macedonian language. Children learned more verbally and without a program. His first teacher was Slavjanka (a partisan), dressed in a …

attractions, visiting Amsterdam? Obviously Rijksmuseum https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/?lang=EN&gclid=COCat76i5NACFdU_Gwod5iYIkw There is a lot to be done in the Netherlands during your trip. Which attractions should you spend your time at? The Netherlands, is home to a vast assortment of attractions (including amusement parks, water parks, ski resorts museums, zoos, and even miniature cities). For a introduction to the Dutch and Flemish Art, you …

SAFARI IN TANZANIA http://www.tanzaniamagictours.com/tours/tanzania-lodge-safaris/ The safari is your ideal way to discover an incredible land, where the Kilimanjaro towering over the savannah (with its eternal snow), where you can learn about the parks of Ngorongoro and Manyara, even going to the island of Bongoyo. Endless horizons of the plains as far as the eye, impressive spaces where colors are added …

DIGAMBARA – Rizio Yohannan Raj I stand before the madman listening to his laughter. Amid the noises of the road, it is a reminder of your closed eyes, your long arms, your ruffled hair, your forgetful ecstasy. I no longer want my mirror on the wall. As in a clear drop of sun, I can see the world in its …

The face of this World is subject to the face of the heavens. Modelled on Canis minor, the more northerly of Orion’s two ‘dogs’. Capricorn, reworking the older model of Auriga as ‘Magus’. http://www.wopc.co.uk/ Influenced by Byzantium, Vittorino da Feltre’s school revived in Italy the habit of using exercise-games in elementary levels of teaching. In the late fifteenth century, from …

PERSUASION – Jane Austen Jane Austen, once compared her writing to painting on a little bit of ivory, 2 inches square. Readers of Persuasion will discover that neither her skill for delicate, ironic observations on social custom, love, and marriage nor her ability to apply a sharp focus lens to English manners and morals has deserted her in her final …

The museums of Piero Earth is waiting for you, and taking advantage of the Pass, http://www.valtiberinaintoscana.it/richiedi-pass-musei-valtiberina-toscana-en a system allows you to know the museums saving money. Tuscany offers many possibilities, walking under the sky of Piero. The works of Piero della Francesca and tourist routes related to him are beautifully placed in the landscape of the Valtiberina. To organize your …