December 25, 2024 7:11 am

THE WOMAN WHO LOVED A COUNTRY BURNED BY THE SUN – Dorothea Mackellar, Writing from the heart, imagination and experience

A lyrist of color and light, in love with the Australian landscape She loved a land of wide plains and its frayed mountain ranges that merged into distant horizons. For her contribution to Australian literature, in the New Year’s Day of 1968, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. She travelled with her parents through …

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A 30 YEARS MUSICAL JOURNEY – Midnight Oil, antipodean pub rock version of Queen

From Sydney’s Royal Antler Hotel to the Exxon Building in New York The group have inspired artists outside of popular music, including poet Daniel Nester and painter Nicholas Harding. Also known under the nickname The Oils, they are an Australian rock group originally from Sydney, which started playing in 1972. In 1975, the group rechristened itself Midnight Oil https://www.midnightoil.com/. After …

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WHEN FOR A CARTOONIST A SURFACE NEEDS ASIAN PAINTS – R.K. Laxman, best known for The Common Man and cartoon strip, You Said It

Struggling for an idea, smoking for inspiration He loved to draw objects that caught his eye outside the window of his room. Collected in The Distorted Mirror (2003), he published short stories, essays, and travel articles. He developed an affinity for drawing at an early age. R.K. Laxman, born 1921 in Mysuru (India), was cartoonist who created daily comic strip, …

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COMIC SUGGESTIONS, CINEMATOGRAPHICALLY REPRODUCED – Federico Fellini, creative greatness and uncontainable fantasy

When the style of a film is inspired by the caricatural simplicity of its characters Taking graphic notes of the faces and objects of the characters of his films, he made a track that creatively illuminated the first day of his every film production https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/fellini_federico.htm. In addition to his being a famous director, there is also a cartoonist version, and …

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BETWEEN CLERGYMEN’S CORRUPTION AND SEXUAL REPRESSION – Pino Zac, an Italian illustrator, cartoonist and animator

From Pratola Peligna to Le Canard enchaîné The intellectual properties of the images that appear on this blog correspond to their authors. We only wish to spread the knowledge of these creative people, allowing others to appreciate the works. If you want to know other cartoonists, you can type http://meetingbenches.com/category/cartoonists/.

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THE CARTOON VERSION OF BELGIUM PERSONIFICATION – Hergé, Belgian cartoonist father of The Adventures of Tintin

Popular drawing style and ligne claire comic albums The intellectual properties of the images that appear on this blog correspond to their authors. We only wish to spread the knowledge of these creative people, allowing others to appreciate the works. If you want to know other cartoonists, you can type http://meetingbenches.com/category/cartoonists/.

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GROTTESE COMICS AND NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE – Al Capp, American cartoonist and humorist

Satirical comic strips, urban experiences and the way the world viewed American South The intellectual properties of the images that appear on this blog correspond to their authors. We only wish to spread the knowledge of these creative people, allowing others to appreciate the works. If you want to know other cartoonists, you can type http://meetingbenches.com/category/cartoonists/.

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MADRID, ALMOST A LITERARY CHARACTER – The constant, mysterious and inexplicable force of Madrid’s creativity

The Madrid of creativity, where nobody goes to bed before killing the night Madrid https://www.liabeny.es/it/ is a city full of history where you will find famous places, such as Paseo del Prado, the Plaza de la Puerta del Sol or the Plaza Mayor (with really interesting buildings), the Royal Palace and the Basilica of San Francisco, Palacios de Cibeles and …

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FICTIONAL SCENES AND REALITY-BASED LENS – Cristina de Middel: Blending documentary and conceptual photographic practices

Disenchanted with photojournalism shaping of public opinions A few years ago, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en hosted a large photographic retrospective of Luigi Ghirri https://archivioluigighirri.com/, an Italian photographer who through two hundred images recounted a vanished Italy, that of the seventies of the twentieth century. Spanish photograph Alberto García-Alix https://www.albertogarciaalix.com/en/obras/self-portrait/ is instead a condensed images that tell tragic …

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