To learn about countries and nations, it is necessary to know their cultural latitudes. A perfectly proportioned man (created by Leonardo da Vinci), correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside Meeting Benches way: the Vitruvian approach to life. Good listening of Indians music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPo-9M6Sy3s&list=RDcAMnHupwkns&index=2
Read More »OLGA WISINGER-FLORIAN (1844/1926), AUSTRIAN FEMALE PAINTER – An elite circle of buyers, between intense colors and flower images
PAINTING OF LIGHT AND MOOD – Olga Wisinger-Florian, musical shades over flowers
OLGA WISINGER-FLORIAN 1/4 – She was born in Vienna in one day in November, and will live to love music and Impressionist painting. Her painting of light and mood as well as her choice of motifs (alleys, gardens, fields) show strong similarities to Schinder’s works. OLGA WISINGER-FLORIAN 2/4 – Socially engaged in the struggle for women’s emancipation, she represents with …
Read More »VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA – Maurice Ravel, Bolero
The Boléro, innovative and provocative, he obtained a resounding success, going on stage in Paris in 1928. The original ballet, resembles a dance ritual, during which a woman dancing seductively on a table, while a group of men approach her gradually, with the growth of the music. Composed by Maurice Ravel in 1928, the “Bolero” is a ballet music, became …
Read More »LOVE’S SONG – Poetry, by Rainer Maria Rilke
LOVE’S SONG And as I detain my soul, because I do not just reach your own? How I will lift it to other spheres, where you no longer is? Oh, I would hide it in something, that go missing in the dark solitude, unknown and silent in a corner, that does not vibrate more when your rivibrano the depths! But …
Read More »THE EMPEROR’S TOMB – Novel, by Joseph Roth
The Emperor’s Tomb, Roth’s last novel, it is a novel of mothers and marriages, and tells the story of another young Trotta, first seen as a man about town, frequenting cafés and prostitutes, who is called up, and returns to the chaos and disintegration of Vienna between the wars and the coming of the Nazis. Franz Ferdinand Trotta, is in …
Read More »CARLO PORTELLI (1510/1574), ITALIAN PAINTER – The Florentine Mannerism, in the sweetness of the faces, and in the complexity of the scenes
WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY – To you, by Jovanotti
TO YOU > To you who you are the only in the world, the only reason to go through with my every breath, when I look at you, after a day full of words, without you to tell me anything, everything becomes clear. In you I’ve found all ‘corner, with clenched fists, with my back against the wall, ready to …
Read More »THE NATIVITY ART – Characters and places, shades of creativity through the ages
GEORGES BRAQUE (1882/1963), FRENCH PAINTER – Painting breaking the surface of the painting, but not too much
WITHOUT LOSING THE OBJECT RECOGNITION – Georges Braque and Synthetic Cubism
GEORGES BRAQUE 1/4 – A creative that is born in a spring day, a child who attended evening classes at the School of Fine Arts in Le Havre, the guy that is formed at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the artist who loves Matisse, Picasso and Cezanne. Objects that you observe in his paintings are not copies of reality, …
Read More »TRICKY TWENTY-TWO – Novel, by Janet Evanovich
Stephanie Plum, pursues a fraternity member arrested for beating up a college dean and investigates a murder. Ken Globovic, hailed as the The Supreme Exalted Zoo Keeper of the animal house known as Zeta fraternity, has been arrested for beating up the dean of students at Kiltman College. Things just aren’t adding up, and Stephanie can’t shake the feeling that …
Read More »GO SET A WATCHMAN – Novel, by Harper Lee
In the mid-1950s, a grown-up Jean Louise Finch returns to Maycomb and realizes that her adored father is a racist. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch returns home from New York City, to visit her aging father, Atticus. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. http://www.amazon.com/Go-Set-Watchman-A-Novel/dp/0062409859
Read More »THE MARTIAN – Novel, by Andy Weir
Abandoned by his crew, an astronaut embarks on a dogged quest to stay alive. Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. As he overcomes one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next, Mark begins to let himself believe he might make …
Read More »BLOOD KISS (Black Dagger Legacy) – Novel, by J. R. Ward
While attending the Black Dagger Brotherhood’s rigorous training program, Paradise falls for a commoner. The schooling is unfathomably difficult, the other recruits feel more like enemies than allies. Her strategy? Join the Black Dagger Brotherhood’s training center program and learn to fight for herself. And that’s before she falls in love with a fellow classmate. http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Kiss-Black-Dagger-Legacy/dp/0451475321
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