Meeting Benches World art in all forms
IN ANY SEASON UNMISSABLE, FOR FANS OF ART – Basel, Switzerland that you could not imagine
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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ARDENGO SOFFICI (1879/1964), ITALIAN PAINTER – The primacy of pictorial visibility, after the experiences of Cubism and Futurism
ON THE LEFT OF RIO PISUERGA – Valladolid and Old Castile, chests Inside stone ancient castles
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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WHERE YOU CAN EMBRACE AIR AND WATER – Pyrenean Massif of Maladeta, between Spain and France
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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EXPANDING IMAGINATION CAPACITY – Jean Calogero: unreal worlds that arise listening to classical music
JEAN CALOGERO 1/3 – First exhibitions in 1945 in Sicily, and he is best known for his Surrealistic and Genre pieces. Born in Sicily in 1922, from a modest background he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania, and the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, lived and worked for many years in Paris and Italy (also exhibited in …
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JEAN CALOGERO (1922/2001), ITALIAN PAINTER – Surrealistic and Genre pieces, between Sicily and Paris
RIJKSMUSEUM MASTERPIECES OF ART – Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn: Portrait of a Couple
In the twenties of the seventeenth century, European painting was impregnated amazing realistic effects of Caravaggio’s art, those that the Italian painter had been able to create through the use of lights. Of that use, also a Dutch painter will full knowledge. That man is Rembrandt, a Dutchman born in a summer day in 1606, becoming one of the most …
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LIVED MOMENT, LIKE REVELATIONS – Natale Scarpa, a brief existential flight inside the hyper-pictorial realism
CAGNACCIO DI SAN PIETRO – His real name was Natale Scarpa, but we know him by his pen name: Cagnaccio di San Pietro. Born in Desenzano del Garda in a January day in 1897, he would become a hyper-realist Italian painter. Initially, his creativity had approached to Futurism, briefly, because the Magic Realism had grown inside him. CAGNACCIO DI …
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CAGNACCIO DI SAN PIETRO (1897/1946), PITTORE ITALIANO – When the Magic realism it grow inside you
THE PAINTER LEADING TO THE SPANISH BAROQUE – Francisco De Zurbaran
FRANCISCO DE ZURBARAN 1/3 – He baptized in a church of Extremadura November 7, 1598, was the son a wealthy merchant. Large monastic cycles, devotional works and still lifes, are what he has given us, forever. He was the artist who painted the Counter-religiosity of the Spanish Church of the 17th century. Since 1614 he works as an apprentice in …
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FRANCISCO DE ZURBARAN (1598/1664), SPANISH PAINTER – Large monastic cycles and devotional works
EXTREMADURA INNER LANDSCAPES – SPAIN
THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED – Romance by Catherine Dunne
It was when a worst nightmare came true that she realised life was too short (and too precious), for compromise, prompting her to stop teaching and start writing. She knows, like no other writer, how to illuminate the intimate, daily, domestic lives of ordinary women and their families. Exciting and elegant, her writing is all of these things, and a …
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EXTREMADURA POEMS
SAN FELIPE – Poetry by Lee Anne Sittler Don’t watch the blooms make love, the visual screams they make, incongruous, dissonant, cantankerous spirits cascading into cloud wisps, re-forming around María trapped in her chapel. María, don’t watch too closely, in summer, the children swimming in the river; the white houses lapping over the river’s edge like abandoned kittens. Don’t watch …
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