CUI XIUWEN 1/4 – For some years, we are witnessing the establish itself on the international scene of contemporary Chinese artists. The Chinese avant-garde today, creating interaction with European and oriental patterns, also develops explicit references to famous works of the past. That artist became interested in creating new representations of her work. Her first foray into the world of …
Read More »CUI XIUWEN, CHINESE PAINTER – Making palely female students, haired blacks
THREE SHADES OF CHINESE CREATIVITY – When the sensitivity walk inside the soul brushes
Why are the Chinese so creative? Maybe you know that the Chinese, are known for skill in carving ornate ivory items, and cutting paper patterns and human hair pictures. Yes, everyone also knows the Chinese use Chinese characters in their language, but maybe the Chinese brain is more geared towards the artistic than the rest of the world. Of it …
Read More »READING POEMS, EVEN QHILE YOU ARE TRAVELING IN CHINA
CHINESE POEMS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY – Many people loves to read. Our proposal call any web-traveler to sit into Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com to share written emotions, observing new creative horizons. In his book (How to Read and Why), Harold Bloom says that we should read slowly, with love and with our inner ear cocked. By reading a written description, …
Read More »SOPHISTICATED FIGURES, PAINTED WITH PROVOCATIVE REALISM – John Currin
JOHN CURRIN 1/4 – Without boundaries, his way of expressing creativity ranges between reality and fiction, between obscene and refined. His female eros interpretation offers you a panoramic expressive works over almost surreally grotesque. He is a very sophisticated, painter: both the technical level and the visual culture. What he offers you through his works, it is a way to …
Read More »JOHN CURRIN, AMERICAN PAINTER – Reality and fiction, between obscene and refined
TO BE BELOVED – Giacomo Leopardi
Remembered for his intensely pessimistic attitude towards the human condition and life, he was a significant figure of the Italian Romanticism era. The extraordinarily lyrical quality of his poetry, made him a central protagonist in the European and literary and cultural landscape. His own literary evolution, created a remarkable and renowned poetic work, related to the Romantic era. Giacomo Leopardi …
Read More »THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN BRONZE – Cartoceto di Pergola / Italy
All we know, is that the statues were cast between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD. That equestrian group, is the only one of its kind to have survived from the Roman age. The group includes two horsemen and two women (whom experts have not yet been able to identify). For the men, most suggest Nero, Julius …
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WHEN MIRRORING YOURSELF, YOU SEE AN APPLE – Cristina Bernazzi
CRISTINA BERNAZZANI 1/3 – Of all her personal favorite pieces, she loves one in which a woman climbs a tree branch to look in a mirror (but only to see an apple instead of her reflection). For she, design is a language that goes beyond words. For that she cannot imagine existence without drawing and painting. She was born and …
Read More »CRISTINA BERNAZZANI, ITALIAN PAINTER – Painting, a language which goes beyond the words
POMPEIAN LANDSCAPES – Italy, around Vesuvius
A SUNNY DAY THAT MAKES YOU WARM – Antonio de Curtis (Totò): the prince of laughter who recited poems
He, the man who had a very long name and surname, remains today the most popular Italian comedian of all time, distinguished himself even outside of acting, becoming a playwright and poet, lyricist and sometimes singer. He is still considered – even for a few dramatic roles – one of the greatest performers in the history of the theater and …
Read More »79 AFTER CHRIST, LIKE YESTERDAY – The new excavations of Pompei
Six new homes – recently reopened, all together – they offer a whole an extraordinary visual landscape over the life of this Roman city, in the years that preceded the eruption of Vesuvius (in 79 AD). All persons entering the places of archaeological excavations of Pompei, http://www.pompeiisites.org/index.jsp?idProgetto=2 have the opportunity to choose between two paths: the first opportunity is the one …
Read More »AND OUTCASTS ALWAYS MOURN – Père Lachaise Cemetery, not only the largest cemetery in Paris
That cemetery was opened on May 1804, and the first person buried was a five-year-old girl (Adélaïde Paillard de Villeneuve, the daughter of a door bell-boy of the Faubourg St. Antoine), but her grave no longer exists, as the plot was a temporary concession. We waiting for you at Paris Métro station Philippe Auguste (on line 2), is next to …
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