Meeting Benches World art in all forms

LANGUEDOC/ROUSSILLON February Hills. Through the snow mimosa stretches. Branch upon branch of glistening yellow Reaches towards ‘Canigou’, mountain of church-like splendour. So many dark days lived by all. Forgotten? Not yet. Cherry orchards. A paradise of fruit so red, so dark, so utterly devoid of shame, waiting for the right moment to please, nodding towards the pine trees, palm trees, …

Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man …

Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …

PAL SZINYEI MERSE 1/3 – Now, Chminianska Nová Ves is a village in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia, but historical records of the village was first mentioned in 1248. Pál Szinyei Merse (one of the most well-known rapresentativ of Hungarian impressionist painting), was born here into a Hungarian family. In 1864, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts …

MARTIN BENKA 1/3 – Searching for forms and colours of Slovakia, he would visit regions where people lived in communion with nature. He was born in 1888, inside a September day, in the family of an carpenter with a small farm, as the youngest of six children living. Modesty and sensitive towards people taught him by his mother (a model …

Through movement everything manifests. Life starts with sound, and sound creates movement. Inner Musical Landscapes is our musical proposal, that invites you to travel into your moods. Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com an inspiration to relax into your inner presence, through heedful listening of the musicians and lands where you’re traveling, also in Prešov. From this town come a lot of famous …

It is one of the oldest royal towns in Slovakia. First habitants came to that region already in Paleolithic period. Prešov was founded in 1132 by Blind Béla (King of Hungary). The city used to be a part of that Kingdom in the end of 11th century, and actually the city it is located in eastern Slovakia, with many beautiful …

When we say High Tatras, we mean majestic peaks touching to the sky, dark turquoise mountain lakes, waterfalls and rare animals. The massif has several valleys, which lend themselves to winter sports and hiking, or even mountain-climbing. The High Tatras – which extends into Poland – contains some of the highest summits in Slovakia. http://slovakia.travel/en/national-park-of-high-tatras Between the Krivan and the …

Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man …

DAVID HOCKNEY 1/3 – He was born in Bradford, England, in 1937, and attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s, where he painted his famous swimming pool paintings. English painter, but also photographer and stage designer. He made apparent his facility as a draughtsman while studying at Bradford School of Art.         DAVID HOCKNEY …

Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …