Meeting Benches World art in all forms

HONORE’ DAUMIER 1/4 – He, son of a glazier who loves poetry, was born in Marseille on a day in February. Also in his work as a painter, are the characteristic features of his work as an engraver: stretch and recorded net, expressionistic deformation and satire of manners. He lived in an age of dramatic political, economic, and social upheaval. …

LOW BRANCHES While that means last but not knowing, take eternity by low branches that protect the table where light and shadow play, on my white page of this morning. Around these two trees, first the blade, then the house, then the time, then tomorrow, to open oblivion, which already dissolves these fruits yesterday dropped by the table. There is …

The wall, the front of which the condemned will find death. The wall, the walls of the rooms that close tragic mysteries and sexual offenses, the distortions and hypocrisy which poison social consciousness at its birth and preparing for a sort guilty. The wall, the one that hides the multiple aspects of a hallucinatory reality. This novel, published in France …

Musette, Can Can, Bransle and more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLkzm9mirEY

The Wonderful World of Classical Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IreT5fTi9k

ROB GONSALVES 1/4 – His surrealism is magical. Already at age 12, he began studying architecture, fostering a sense of perspective, what you can see in every painting. Nothing is as it seems: watch carefully what he paints, and you can see visual poems. ROB GONSALVES 2/4 – Dali, Magritte, Escher and Tanguy, they are his constant source of inspiration. …

THE HILL > I have come this far on my own legs, missing the bus, missing taxis, climbing always. One foot in front of the other, that is the way I do it. It does not bother me, the way the hill goes on. Grass beside the road, a tree rattling its black leaves. So what? The longer I walk, …

It is a story of inescapable family bonds, terrible secrets, and of miracles. The start, beginning in Nova Scotia, through a battlefields. James Piper sets fire to his dead mother’s piano and heads out across Cape Breton Island to find a new place to live, knowing Materia Mahmoud, and he becomes increasingly frustrated by her resulting strange behavior. http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Your-Knees-Oprahs-Book/dp/0743237188

ANDREW WYETH 1/4 – He was born July’s day, and its family was always close, spending time reading and fostering a closeness with nature. He painted in a realistic way, as a son of art, by the father. For a long time, he was snubbed by the official critics as an eccentric and solitary painter, plagued by a sentimental attachment …

Maybe, often you happened to observe people from a window, imagining their lives. Rachel – the protagonist of this novel – whose life (apparently perfect), has recently been shattered, she observes two people every morning, for a few minutes (from a train window), and that couple is become for her an obsession. Those two people, living to her old house. …

“The Book of Ephraim” is the first of three books that make up “The Changing Light at Sandover,” the masterpiece of one of the most important American poets of the late twentieth century, James Merrill (1926/1995). FROM THE BOOK OF EPHRAIM Admittedly I err by undertaking this is its present form. The baldest prose reportage was called for, that would …

Some service station, where to find the classic pretzel “Homer Simpson”, along with a good coffee. Small countries that emerge between the green meadows, each gathered around their “main street”, with old abandoned farms. During the first weekend of August, all of this changes, because by all the Member States the streets are invaded by 500,000 Bikers gather in a …