Meeting Benches World art in all forms

GIORGIO DE CHIRICO 1/4 – The man who will become Italian painter, was born in Greece on a summer day. The artist who will become the leading exponent of the Italian metaphysical painting, the creator of paintings extremely enigmatic, studied in Athens, Florence, Monaco, Germany and Paris, knowing the German pictorial symbolism and Gauguin. GIORGIO DE CHIRICO 2/4 – Squares …

Imagine you’re in Pavia, back in the year 1525. Imagine seeing a king of France won and humiliated. Imagine the outcome of that battle are the result of technological innovation. Fine. Reading this novel, you will not need imagination, because you will know many things of the distant month of February, well described. Lanzichenecchi and purveyor, two monarchies that are …

GRLICE Nekje so me pokopali. Ne spominjam se več nobenega grma, nobene zvezde, ne morja in ne tišine. Med kládivi in kolesi, med bati in računali samo še ribe in grlice včasih še jočejo. Telo razgrebem, ogenj prižgem, da se ob njem ogrejejo njihove ranjene glave, njihove ranjene glave. GRLICE Somewhere I was buried. I do not remember no bush, …

ZORAN MUSIC 1/4 – He – the painter of small horses, the man who assimilate Italian, Slavic and German cultures – was born in a winter day in a small Slovenian village. He attended the Academy of Art in Zagreb. He travels a lot, until the landing most of his life, the one with the woman who will be his …

A pictorial movement which experienced a short creative horizon, between eight hundred and nine hundred. That renewal was anti-academic, and it was a form of expression of Italian painting in the realist sense. The creativity of the Macchiaioli is realistic, and is firmly opposed to Romanticism and academic Purism. The Macchiaioli, believe that the image of the real is a …

TANTO GENTILE E TANTO ONESTA PARE > Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare la donna mia quand’ella altrui saluta, ch’ogne lingua deven tremando muta, e li occhi no l’ardiscon di guardare. Ella si va, sentendosi laudare, benignamente d’umiltà vestuta; e par che sia una cosa venuta da cielo in terra a miracol mostrare. Mostrasi sì piacente a chi la mira, …

WHEN REALITY INDUCES – Silvestro Lega and its pictorial nuances, inside psychology perspective and bright colors. SILVESTRO LEGA 1/4 – He was born in one day in late autumn (the third of eighteen children), and will become one of the greatest exponents of the movement of Macchiaioli. At the age of 17, he moved to Florence to enroll at the …

He was born in Paris, inside an October day, becoming poet, novelist and member of the French Comunist Party. Dadaism and Surrealism inside the life of Louis Aragon. In 1939 he married Russian-born author Elsa Triolet, and she became his muse. During the second word war, he wrote for the underground press Les Éditions de Minuit, and was a member …

The story of a man, sometimes it’s special. The life of this painter, is reflected in a city. Paris, its atmosphere and its concerns, in a century incredibly eventful. PAUL BAUDRY 1/4 – He was born in Paris, in a day of autumn. In the course of his residence in Italy, he derived inspiration from Italian art, with the mannerism …