Known as the land of thousand châteaux, the Dordogne’s landscape is embellished with castles built between 1337 and 1453, when this land marked the frontier between French and English territories. Mesmerising prehistoric cave paintings, standout cuisine and castle-strewn river lands. Welcome to Dordogne, http://meetingbenches.com/2017/03/dordognes-inner-landscapes/ where you can listen croak of frogs, hidden among weeping willows. The Dordogne is one of …
Read More »NOVELS ABOUT DORDOGNE
The Dordogne? http://meetingbenches.com/2017/03/dordognes-inner-landscapes/ No part of France is so impassioned by its culinary heritage as this deeply gourmet idyll in the rural south-west. Your personal enlightenment can find one special autumn as you wander on the Saturday-morning market in Périgueux. But, complete insider’s guide to the Dordogne (including hotels, restaurants, things to do, attractions, camping and glamping sites), maybe need …
Read More »STARS OVER THE DORDOGNE – Wan, dulled by much travelling
Born in 1932 to middle class parents in Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath published her first poem at the age of eight. She was a sensitive person, who tended to be a bit of a perfectionist. She was what many would consider a model daughter. She won a scholarship to Smith College in 1950 (even then she had an enviable list of …
Read More »WHEN COLOR IT’S A WAY OF EXPERIENCING THE WORLD – The intimate world of Pierre Bonnard
PIERRE BONNARD 1/3 – Color was for him a way of experiencing the world. He was was born in Hauts-de-Seine, as the son of an official of the French Ministry of War. He studied law at the Sorbone (however, he had also attended art classes at the École des Beaux-Arts). Transferred to the Académie Julian in 1889, he met Denis …
Read More »PIERRE BONNARD (1867/1947), FRENCH PAINTER – Where was a lot more to be got out of color
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Read More »DORDOGNE’S INNER LANDSCAPES
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Read More »CASTLES IN DORDOGNE – Journey to the land of thousand castles
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Read More »ANDRZEJ GUDANSKI – My interest in art started early and I have quickly realised, it is my destiny
ANDRZEJ GUDANSKI 1/4 – He was born in Łobez, Poland. He is completely self-taught. He has been drawing and painting from an early age. The first works in oil painted at the age of 12 years. At the age of 14, he began to sell his works – oil paintings and watercolors. The artist’s work consist of painting, drawing and …
Read More »ANDRZEJ GUDANSKI, POLISH ARTIST – fairytale full of allegory
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Read More »REMEMBER TO OBEY – Leonardo da Vinci and the Virgin of the Rocks
In April 1483, the prior of a Milanese Confraternity signed a contract for an altarpiece. It was the first commission obtained by a young artist, who came from Florence to the city. The agreement which Leonardo da Vinci had agreed to undertake, provided a triptych: in the central altarpiece, Our Lady and the encounter between Jesus and the small Giovanni, …
Read More »WOMEN AT THE MIRROR
One of most famous ideas of Jacques Lacan (psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and philosopher) is called ‘The Mirror Stage’ – a moment in life, when a person looks in the mirror and identifies self with the reflected image. The reflected image is a sort of perfect version of the self, a version that we aspire to be. Enjoy these 7 women looking …
Read More »PAINTING WOMEN IN THE MIRROR – When the mirror represents the male gaze
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Read More »CYRIL ROLANDO – the darkness of life is more inspiring than happy and safe people
CYRIL ROLANDO 1/3 – Cyril Rolando is a digital artist as hobby located in Toulon, France known as AquaSixio. His main profession is psychologist. He draw since seven years, digitally only. He is completely self-taught. It started like a game and he never took art course. After the ultra-realism time, he tried to play with the surrealism things, changing the colors, …
Read More »CYRIL ROLANDO, FRENCH DIGITAL ARTIST – otherworldly by AquaSixio
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Read More »WHETHER YOU’RE SEARCHING FOR WORDS – Sharing poems
Anyone can come out of the darkness, to the light. Come out, don’t fight. Come out to the poetry landscapes. https://www.amazon.com/Great-American-Poems-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486401588 It’s your world to share. To show, you care for someone is to lend a helping hand. Share, whatever can help someone in need, you will be happier and a better person indeed. Whether you’re searching for words to …
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