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THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM – Novel of Heinrich Boll

Knowing a nation, it is also “feel” its literature. Welcome to the German-language literature. The Meeting Benches way: a perfectly proportioned man, was created by Leonardo da Vinci, correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. That geometrical way of the mind, could live with the simplicity of the sides of a charming square, where joy, …

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PAINTING ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM IN STYLE: Forget about art and paint pictures of what interests you in life. This is the way of Robert Hooper

EDWARD HOPPER 1/4 – He was born next to the Hudson River north of New York City. He began art studies with a correspondence course. During its life, he is best known for his oil paintings. His search for inspiration, least painfully found in the stimulation of new surroundings. EDWARD HOPPER 2/4 – Hopper’s parents encouraged his art, with materials, …

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PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT: Novel, by Philip Roth

PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT Seven chapters, connected by an invisible thread, that is a monologue, one between Alexander and his psychoanalyst. By reading, you also find that the temporal levels of the narrative is moved by invisible thread of memory and internal drives. The man who complains – Alexander Portnoy – is any human being, with a personal set of delusions and …

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EXPRESSIVE BRUSHSTORKES FOR REALISTIC PAINTINGS: Chen Yifei, combination of both Western and Eastern influences

CHEN YIFEI 1/4 – He was born in in Ningbo (coastal Zhejiang Province).   Famous Chinese classic painter, he is a central figure in the development of Chinese oil painting. He was famous for his big Mao portraits and depiction of grand heroic events of the modern Chinese nation. In his oil paintings, he abandoned his uncritical glorification of the party, …

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CHINESE POEMS: Warm spring expands, while raising clouds

NIGHT’S VIGIL In the deep night vigil the moonlight cuts through men and houses, the Great Bear cross the skies in the north, Sagittarius declines in the south. On this night I mean better the warm air of spring: entry of insects again penetrates the green veil of the window. (Liu Fang-P’ing) THOUGHT LOOKING The network image, launched, widens more …

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RAISE THE RED LANTERN: Novel, by Su Tong

What you read, you talk of a China immersed in medieval times of pre-revolutionary social decomposition. Leafing through the pages of the novel, you will discover the young Songlian, a girl who agrees to become the fourth wife and concubine of rich Chen Zuoqian. You must adapt to the rules that the “home” requires wives (the husband has – among …

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THE IMAGINATIVE USE OF SURREALISM: Tetsuya Ishida, where the inanimate objects are imbued with, taking on a living existence

TETSUYA ISHIDA 1/4 – Surreal portrayal of an ordinary Japanese life, its the creative world of an joung artist, strucked by a train. His paintings, depict humanoid figures in surreal environments, reflecting on uncertainty and unease. Yes, Ishida’s art involves an imaginative use of surrealism. TETSUYA ISHIDA 2/4 – He entered Musashino Art University where he majored in Visual Communication …

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JAPANESE POEMS: The flower necklaces, for a traveler

THE WANDERER You would at home love in the arms would rest, poor traveler. Here, along the way, dissolves on a bed of grass. (Shotoku Taishi) FALL FLOWERS In the glasses of sake plum petals float. After drinking with his best friend fall well flowers … (Otomo No Sakanoue) A NECKLACE FOR YOU White dew drops plumes on cane my …

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THE PASSIONATE EQUIVALENT OF A SENSATION RECEIVED: Maurice Denis, nont a flat surface covered with assembled coors

MAURICE DENIS 1/4 – He was born in a November day in Normandy, and its waters and coastlines would remain favorite subject matter throughout his career. He studied at École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian. He believed that art should sanctify nature. Inside its work, the imagination again become the queen of our strengths, where liberate our sensitivity. MAURICE …

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