His musicality is superb, a sight to behold He is well known for his free improvisations, those that incorporate many musical styles, often all in the same song! In Boston, he is definitely a unique musical voice. This songwriter brings a warmth and a special intimacy to the places where he plays, with fun and educational performances. If you want …
Read More »THOMAS WILMER DEWING (1851/1938), AMERICAN PAINTER –Elegant and refined women, placed in interiors or autdoors
Painting figures in tonal style early life experience brought him about a love of music (which would later influence many of his paintings). Painting figures in a tonalist style at a time when Impressionism was dominant, he became a artist influenced by James Abbott McNeill Whistler. As you can observe, his unique style approached the mysterious world of the French …
Read More »GEORGE WESLEY BELLOWS (1882/1925), AMERICAN REALIST PAINTER – His fame came early and has proved long lasting
The most acclaimed American artist of his generation WESLEY BELLOWS began drawing well before kindergarten. At the age of twenty-three, he attained membership in the National Academy of Design. Along with being a great painter, he was a greatest printmakers, using the technique of lithography to make prints fresh like a charcoal sketch. This son of a devout and building …
Read More »MEXICO, BEAUTY AND JOY OF LIVING – The unforgettable journey from Tijuana to Juchitán de Zaragoza
An inexhaustible culture, delicious food and the hospitality of its people If you are planning a trip to Mexico, perhaps you will have planned to explore its colonial cities and its amazing beaches of the Caribbean and Pacific. If you do not know where to start, read our proposal for an author’s trip that – from Tijuana to Juchitán de …
Read More »A LAND CONTRADICTORY AND CHARMING – Mexico in twenty images
6,000 meters high mountains, desert, rainforest and white sand beaches The intellectual property of the images that appear in this blog correspond to their authors. The sole purpose of this site, is to spread the knowledge of these artists and that other people enjoy their works.
Read More »LOST HEART – Lynda Aguirre Thomas / The songwriter with the scream in the heart
Musical influences by Peter Gabriel, Fiona Apple and Björk It’s close to San Diego, and easy to get to. Going to Tijuana, Mexico? Here are the best creative things to do. If you want to get a taxi ignore the yellow ones, choosing to find taxis with regulated fare (a white-and-orange Taxi Libre). Avenida de la Revolucion it’s Tijuana’s main …
Read More »FROM THE PALM OF MY HAND – VÃctor Terán / When Love flowers unceasingly, like a sickness
When love is bigger than a cloud A typical Mexican city? With a lively market, Juchitán de Zaragoza it’s a special town for the traveler, simply because few other gringos do. There are many festivals and celebrations in this town that has a Muxe community with cisgender men who dress in traditionally female. Around the main plaza, are stands offering …
Read More »CARAMELO – Novel by Sandra Cisneros
A novels that across the border between literary and popular fiction Guanajuato is located between the arid north of the country and the lusher south. The oldest group to inhabit this area, were the people now known as the ChupÃcuarios. In its Mummies Museum you can observe a number of naturally mummified bodies (interred during a cholera outbreak), in 1833. …
Read More »JUAN SORIANO (1920/2006), MEXICAN PAINTER – A perpetual rebel
When Art reveal something about the human essence He liked to call himself a “perpetual rebel”. JUAN SORIANO exhibited in the United States and Europe as well as major venues in Mexico (such as the Museo de Arte Moderno and the Palacio de Bellas Artes). Born in Guadalajara, he reputedly saw his future as a painter when he was just …
Read More »GERARDO MURILLO / DR. ATL (1875/1964), MEXICAN PAINTER – Painting modern mural at the spark of the revolution in 1910
The pioneers of the Mexican movement for artistic nationalism With the aid of borrowed helicopters, GERARDO MURILLO also pioneered a new school of aerial landscape painting. His literary writings include “Stories of All Colors”, which focuses on the themes of the Mexican Revolution. He was interested in the native art of Mexico and the depiction of the Mexican landscape. Although …
Read More »FANTASTIC, FRIENDLY AND LITTLE EXPENSIVE – A journey of art across the United States
Between fast food and sandwich shops, reading James Tate and listening to Erin Enderlin Here the food is very cheap. Between fast food and sandwich shops, you can eat on a budget. The sandwich shops are around $ 5, the restaurants at half-price seats cost between $ 10-15 for a meal and a drink. The United States is a country …
Read More »UNITED STATES, READING JAMES TATE END LISTENING ERIN ENDERLIN
Into the country that takes time to know its composite nature The intellectual property of the images that appear in this blog correspond to their authors. The sole purpose of this site, is to spread the knowledge of artists and that other people enjoy their works.
Read More »BECOMING A HOUSEHOLD NAME THROUGH LYRICS – Erin Enderlin
Living, loving, killing, and dying The Conway Symphony Orchestra performs throughout the year. Conway is a city in the American state of Arkansas, founded shortly after the Civil War. When the railroad came through, a small tract of land becomed a depot site named “Conway Station”, that contained two small stores, two saloons, a depot, some temporary housing and a …
Read More »MANHATTAN BEACH – Novel by Jennifer Egan
A crime story on the waterfront Of her inspiration and approach to the work, listening music she have not experience time as linear, but experience it in layers. JENNIFER EGAN, an American novelist and short story writer who lives in Clinton Hill, (Brooklyn), in 1962 was born in Chicago but grew up in San Francisco. She has published one short …
Read More »THE BLUE BOOBY LIVES – James Tate and the distirbing poems
Nothing better than to move the reader deeplye Along every avenue and around every corner of the city there is something to do. The Nelson-Atkins Museum is an art gallery in Kansas City (Missouri), well known for its neoclassical architecture and its Asian art collection. Among the masterpieces of his collection of European painting, you can admire works by Caravaggio, …
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