THE UNPREDICTABLE MYSTERIES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS – Max Ernst, the creative able to give voice and face to the nuances of the invisible psychic
MAX ERNST 1/6 – Maximilien was born in Germany in an April day. He studied philosophy, history of art and psychiatry, but it is starting to draw, he discovered his creative vocation. Already at age 22 he exhibited his first paintings in Berlin, knowing Apollinaire and Delaunay. MAX ERNST 2/6 – A strong advocate of the artistic avant-garde, its onset …
Read More »MUSEUMS ROUTES FOR IMAGES – Florence: the Museum of the Convent of San Marco
PIAZZA SAN MARCO, FLORENCE – Visiting an old Dominican Convent, finding a wonderful museum
The building is in the heart of the city of Florence, and in the museum opens to your eyes a treasure chest of art, with the colors of Beato Angelico and Friar Bartolomeo, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Alesso Baldovinetti. From the year 1300, new rooms and new frescoes continued to embellish what was a monastery and parish church, but it was …
Read More »UNREAL REALISM – When the supernatural comes true: with Leonor Fini, at the limits of the artistic creative world
LEONOR FINI (1907/1996), ARGENTINE / ITALIAN PAINTER – An eccentric woman, star of European Surrealism
LEONOR FINI 1/6 – Born woman, in Argentina, in a summer day. Growing increasingly impatient with the conventions and fascinated by the new, devoting her life to the theater, travel and painting, but also loving – always – so desecrating. Trivially die in Paris (because of flu complications), in the heart of winter. LEONOR FINI 2/6 – Growing dispute between …
Read More »LEONORA CARRINGTON (1917/2011), ENGLISH PAINTER – Dreamlike, highly detailed compositions of fantastical creatures in otherworldly
ONE WOMAN, A POET WALKING AND PAINTS – Leonora Carrington, the woman able to change into fish and birds, by painting and writing
LEONORA CARRINGTON 1/5 – She was born in England, but lived her youth in France (with a tormented love story and a nervous breakdown), then spent nearly seventy years of her life in Mexico, where she met (becoming painter and writer), the surreal world of Horna, Gerszo and Peret, along with close friend of Remedios Varo and Bridget Bate Tichenor. …
Read More »DRINK COFFEE TOGETHER VENUS – Island of Milos, the quintessence of Greece
Milos (the most spectacular of the Cyclades islands) is a volcanic island, an extraordinary place, rich in hot springs and white villages. To understand the charm of this place, it is necessary that you observe the white houses of Plaka, when they are flooded by the sun of mid-morning. Plaka is a small town, clinging to a cliff, a place …
Read More »STORY OF A DOG TAUGHT LOYAL TO A CHILD – Novel, by Luis Sepulveda
“The flock of men afraid. I know this because I am a dog, sniffing the smell of fear. ” The narrative voice is that of a German shepherd dog, raised by the Mapuches, people living in the south of Chile, in a region called Araucania. Over there invites the author of this novel, to know the tale of this dog …
Read More »JOURNEY TO THE “Ara Pacis” – Rome inside your eyes
One of the most important monuments of ancient Rome, was built by Emperor Augustus to celebrate the pacification of the Mediterranean Sea, after the victorious military campaigns in Spain and France. Completed in Campo Marzio (in the year 17 BC.), the monument – placed at one end of a large sundial – was unusual: the shadow of the spire of …
Read More »JOSE DE LA BARRA, PERUVIAN PAINTER – The Surrealist that plays and exaggerates reality
THE SURREALISTIC WORLD OF JOSE
JOSE DE LA BARRA 1/4 – He was born in a August day in Peru. He attended the Fine Arts Autonomous Superior School in Lima, Peru, where he studied Painting, Ilustration, and Murals. He has created a dream-like world through his expressing the internal and external fantasies of his imagination with his precise talents in painting and drawing. JOSE DE …
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A HOUSE ON THE TREE: Peru, a romantic night in the forest
Sometimes, during a vacation, the silence is thick and the night is deeper than other nights. That is an experience that takes you by the hand, looking for you, away from what you are, away from all that you’ve already seen, but you need to go to Peru (near the border with Brazil), next to the river “Madre de Dios …
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