INNER LANDSCAPES – Scotland
FIVE SHADES OF MUSICAL LANDSCAPES
Places of great beauty and beautiful landscapes, are able to give us emotional icons. In these places and landscapes, collecting photographs and postcards, depicting a time of travel, we do not use brushes and colors, but we drink a good wine, along with local dishes. Where the landscape is shaped by the good government of men, born the harmony of …
Read More »BONJOUR TRISTESSE – Novel by Françoise Sagan
The name Sagan, was chosen because it is a character of Proust’s Recherche (Princess Sagan). Françoise Quoirez is the daughter of a southern middle class family-east of France. Françoise Sagan, begins very young to write short services from Italy, who had the title Bonjour Napoli, Bonjour Venice, title that already resembles that of her first great success as a novelist, …
Read More »VENETIAN RENAISSANCE PAINTING, FROM THE GALLERIE DELL’ACCADEMIA
Fifty wonders of artistic creativity (born between 1450 and il1630). There Titian, Bellini and portraits by Tintoretto (but also visitation of Carpaccio). The valuable collection of the exhibition ‘Venetian Renaissance Paintings from the Accademia Gallery’, is in Japan. Until October 10 at the National Art Center in Tokyo (from October 22 to January 15 at the National Museum of Art …
Read More »TWO SISTERS WITH THE NAME OF VENUS – Royal Museums of Turin: Venus meets Venus
Different and equal, the two Venus are reflected into one another, in a unique exhibition. The two works of art have traveled a lot together in the last few months. At the end of the exhibition (opening hours from Tuesday to Sunday (from 9.00 to 19.00 / Thursday extended opening hours until 22.00), one of them will stay in Turin, …
Read More »AUSTERLITZ AND THE PEACE MOUND – Follow Napoleon’s footsteps to Slavkov
There are many places in the Czech Republic that have played a role in the development of European history. One that you should not miss is Slavkov (just Brno). http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/virtual/austerlitz/c_directions.html Not only will you find a splendid Baroque castle with beautiful gardens here, but also the setting of one of Europe’s most famous battles: Austerlitz. Take a trip, back in …
Read More »WHEN IN FRENCH POETRY SPEAKS
THE LANDSCAPE – By Robert Desnos I had dreamt of loving. I go on loving but love is no longer that bouquet of lilacs and roses, charging the forest with their fragrance where a flame rests at the end of branchless pathways. I had dreamt of loving. I go on loving but love is no longer that storm whose lightning …
Read More »WHEN PAINTINGS BREATHES LIFE AND JOY – Mario Gomez and his painting style in paper world
MARIO GOMEZ 1/3 – His paintings beckon the viewers to their own childhood. He is married and the father of two daughters and living in Isla De Maipo, Chile. He was born in 1968 in Chile, and the source of his images is often autobiographical and reminiscent of the fantasies of his childhood. Images of paper ships, circus whirls, and …
Read More »MARIO GOMEZ, CHILEAN PAINTER – Feeling around the childhood
LANDSCAPES OF THE SOUL – CHILE
CHILEAN MUSIC
Quena is the traditional flute of the Andes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz5_EJnB8yQ and the siku is a traditional Andean panpipe. Ocarina is a common instrument around the world, and in the Americas it dates from the time of the Incas (is used for festivals, rituals and ceremonies). Prior to the arrival of the European conquerors, the modern national borders that make up the …
Read More »CHILE ADVENTURE TRAVEL – Hatacama: the Most Beautiful Starry Skies in the World
The Atacama Desert, is a plateau in South America, covering a 1,000-kilometre strip of land on the Pacific coast (west of the Andes mountains). It is the driest non-polar desert in the world. Under optimal conditions, up to 3,000 stars can be distinguished in the night sky. This unique advantage has allowed Chile to position itself as astronomical power. http://www.adventure.travel/chile/ …
Read More »INES OF MY SOUL – Romance by Isabel Allende
She is the niece of former Chilean president Salvador Allende. Isabel Allende is a Chilean author best known for penning novels in the style of magical realism. She born on August day, in 1942, in Peru. Allende’s novels are often based upon her personal experience and historical events and pay homage to the lives of women, while weaving together elements …
Read More »DELICATE SHADES OF CHILEAN POETRY – Gabriela Mistral
The love poems in memory of the dead, Sonetos de la muerte (1914), made her known throughout Latin America, but her first great collection of poems, Despair, was not published until 1922. Gabriela Mistral played an important role in the educational systems of Mexico and Chile, was active in cultural committees of the League of Nations, and was Chilean consul …
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