Meeting Benches World art in all forms

This is a really special place, with few inhabitants, villages of miners and the Sami community, (the indigenous people of the Far North). The activities of the Red Fox Adventure Holidays redfoxadventure@hotmail.com takes place between two natural reserves, to 62 ° for parallel (County of Harjedalen, Jamtland in Sweden). In those places below the Arctic Circle, the clocks do not …

Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, he could not go and collect it, because the return home would have been precluded. He died shortly after, in 1960. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXtFRl1nSs4 Boris Pasternak, the son of a painter and a pianist, after having completed studies in music, law and philosophy, he began his artistic activity in futuristic avant-garde. The beginning of …

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, was the most original voices of Russian poetry of the twentieth century, as well as a leading exponent of the Russian Symbolist movement. In her poems, you can distinguish a kind of musical score, where she combines eccentricity and rigorous use of language. https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Passion-Tsvetaevas-Classical-Ariadne/dp/0615608140 At 18, it takes place the debut of her genuine talent, when she …

In 1975, this painting was exhibited in the halls of the Union of Artists of Leningrad. In 1994, it was exhibited in France. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u3fCIZ_LTE Russian winter, it is a painting of the Soviet Russian painter Nikolai Efimovich Timkov. Looking at this medium-sized painting (100 x 150 cm), you too can easily imagine a cold winter day, in a small village …

MICHAIL ALEKSANDROVIK VRUBEL 1/4 – He is regarded amongst the Russian painters of the Symbolist movement. He stood aloof from contemporary art trends, so that the origin of his unusual manner should be sought in Early Renaissance painting. He entered the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied by direction of Pavel Chistyakov. He would develop a penchant for fragmentary …

One of the main aims of the centre, has been to develop a programme of activities attempting to promote the study of contemporary international artistic creation in all its facets. The Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, was created with the aim of giving the local community an institution for the research, conservation and promotion of contemporary art. In 1997 the …

Right near Triana, across the Guadalquivir River, is an island rich in history, la Cartuja, a really special place for a walk, listening to ancient stories between gardens and suspended walkways. The island of Cartuja is the soul of Seville, because it contains within it a wonderful mix of styles, overlaps and history. Crossing the Triana district, you can reach …

JOSE MANUEL GOMEZ 1/4 – For him, the knowledge it’s the only formula to grow in the strange labyrinth that constitutes art. He was born in a small rural town in Spain in 1940. At the age of 17, he moved to the city of Cordoba, to pursue his interest in the arts. In 1964, he visited Paris, expanded his …

Where once the nobles of Bruhl would gather to dance, it opened the first and only museum dedicated to Max Ernst. In that palace to dance and listen to concerts, do you expect the first museum dedicated to the famous painter and sculpture, graphic and surrealist poet. Yes, he was born here, in Bruhl, before he died in Paris on …

Images cut from the illustrations of the nineteenth century serial novels, but with the novel the surrealists had no luck. The most famous were those novels for images that Max Ernst worked between 1929 and 1934, cutting out pictures, and then assembling them into collages (which added to his hand captions). A week of kindness https://www.amazon.ca/Une-Semaine-Bont%C3%A9-Surrealistic-Collage/dp/0486232522 is a dreamlike construction …