Meeting Benches World art in all forms
TO BE AN ITALIAN AUTODIDACT PAINTER – Alex Bertaina: by the incomprehensible scribbles, to the delicate landscaped watercolors
ALEX BERTAINA 1/3 – Maybe his sky and sea are united (as our existence), between transport towards nature and departure from it, and they shall treat these wounds. At the beginning he met Marco Lattes, who helped him to correct his watercolourist’s gaps. In 2001, he met Jean Louis Droit, a French art dealer, whom opened for him the European …
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ALEX BERTAINA, ITALIAN PAINTER – Paiting, maybe, sky and sea are united
TO BE A RAPHAEL MASTERPIECE – Painting Valued At $26 Turns Out Worth $26 Million
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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THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF PRINCESS HAYFA BINT ABDULLAH – “The Starting Point”
She is Princess Hayfa bint Abdullah (daughter of late King Abdullah). Combining passion for art depths with imagination, she made her debut solo exhibition “The Starting Point” in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with art pieces she created in the past 16 years. Her paintings depict the vivid world of her imagination. Born in 1981 and based in Jeddah, she graduated from …
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MAINTAINING AN PICTORIAL BALANCE – Brent Lynch: between living in the present and paying homage to the past
BRENT LYNCH 1/3 – He spends the coldest month of winter painting in Todos Santos (a small town on the Baja Pacific side). His body of work ranged from large scale murals, books, magazines, event posters and record cover artwork. The energy and poetry of both his figurative and landscapes, are a result of the artist’s passion for direct study …
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BRENT LYNCH, CANADIAN PAINTER – Pursuing the abstract quality of light, color and composition
THREE DAY ROAD – Novel by Joseph Boyden
Many people loves to read. Our proposal call any web-traveler to sit into Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com to share written emotions, observing new creative horizons. Readers enjoy the arts and improve their imagination. Reading makes you smarter, it improves your memory to discover and create yourself. In his book (How to Read and Why), Harold Bloom says that we should read …
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HE REMAIN A CANADIAN POET – Bliss William Carman
Bliss William Carman, was the great-grandson of United Empire Loyalists, who fled to Nova Scotia after the American Revolution, settling in New Brunswick. Born April 15, 1861 (in Fredericton, New Brunswick) and educated at Collegiate Grammar School, Fredericton, Bliss William Carman entered the University of New Brunswick, where he excelled in classics. Enrolled in Oxford University, he studied physics, mathematics …
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CANADIAN INNER LANDSCAPES
WAKING UP EARLY IN THE MORNING – Pierre August Cot, the French painter that preferred to paint while the light was good
PIERRE AUGUSTE COT 1/3 – He woke at dawn, painted while there was good light. His paintings had a strength that magically was mixed with delicate grace. He created several works of lasting popularity (such as Le Printemps and The Storm, both are on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City), but he also was renowned …
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PIERRE AUGUSTE COT (1837/1883), FRENCH PAINTER – Following the rules of composition of the delicacy and color
NOVELS AND HISTORY – Languedoc-Roussillon themed novels
Many people loves to read. Our proposal call any web-traveler to sit into Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com to share written emotions, observing new creative horizons. Readers enjoy the arts and improve their imagination. Reading makes you smarter, it improves your memory to discover and create yourself. In his book (How to Read and Why), Harold Bloom says that we should read …
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LANGUEDOC/ROUSSILLON – By Hortense Hargreaves, from “Le Ciel est Bleu and other poems”
LANGUEDOC/ROUSSILLON February Hills. Through the snow mimosa stretches. Branch upon branch of glistening yellow Reaches towards ‘Canigou’, mountain of church-like splendour. So many dark days lived by all. Forgotten? Not yet. Cherry orchards. A paradise of fruit so red, so dark, so utterly devoid of shame, waiting for the right moment to please, nodding towards the pine trees, palm trees, …
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YOUR PLAYFUL LANGUEDOC/ROUSSILLON – Bédarieux/France, under the sky of Pierre August Cot, waiting for special courses
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 …
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