Isabelle´s Blog
This blog is a work on progressOn my blog I pass on to you what some special people have given us , I rescued it from the darkness of time and give my " personal touch ".
Socrates said "wisdom begins in surprise" And I´d like to surprise all those who may read this blog.
According to Aristotele " men have the desire to know by nature."
And Danti Alighieri in De Vulgari Eloquentia says "we need to be heard rather than speak........ the language even in the hell, gives us life."
Here my word can be heard and in the back room of my spirit and, therefore my thoughts read.
As Nietzsche says"... Like creatures in a non-sleep time, we just perceive the harsh reality in which we live," hidden second by second to show only briefly his elusive truth. "
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SCULPTURE
In the Awakening Slave, Michelangelo worked to free the prisoners from the marble.
This unfinished statue represents the endless struggle of man to get rid of his physical limitations.
Michelangelos believed that the figure had already emerged from the marble. His work was set free the form.
Michelangelos--slaves
Michelangelo´s works
Awakening Slave.1520-23.Marble.2.67m.
knowledge gives me freedom and joy, but there are other things that could give me pleasure, too.
POETRY
LET ´S TALK ABOUT POETRY
Joseph Brodsky in his Essays "On Grief and Reason . Essays". says:
" ....... it could be argued that all reality aspires to the condition of poem, if only for reasons of economy ......""The reality belongs to the language , the economy to the poet . "
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all poems
At a lecture he said:
The most interesting thing about emptiness
is that it is preceded by fullness.
The first to understand this were, I believe, the Greek
gods, whose forte indeed was absence.
Regard, then, yourselves as rehearsing perhaps for the divine encore,
with me playing obviously to the gallery.
We all act out of vanity. But I am in a hurry.
is that it is preceded by fullness.
The first to understand this were, I believe, the Greek
gods, whose forte indeed was absence.
Regard, then, yourselves as rehearsing perhaps for the divine encore,
with me playing obviously to the gallery.
We all act out of vanity. But I am in a hurry.
Few words may evoke human emotions. Poems which are rescued from oblivion or devoured by time.
PAINTING
Saturno Devouring His Son is a painting by Francisco Goya.
Time was one of the obsessions of Goya , who in this painting offers one of the most heartbreaking and tragic images of his work.It depicts the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus ( Romanised to Saturn), who, fearing that he would be overthrown by one of his children,[1] ate each one upon their birth.
Saturn.
Francisco Goya.
The work is one of the 14 Black Paintings that Goya painted directly onto the walls of his house sometime between 1819 and 1823.
Later, It was transferred to canvas.
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Behind a imaginary window , a semi-sunken dog consigned to oblition, is looking with a sad expression. It is a tragic victim of its destiny "immortality".
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The dog is also one of the 14 Black Paintings Black Paintings (1819-1823) that formed part of the decoration of the walls of the house of the Deaf- -called Fifth that Goya acquired in 1819 .
This painting has given the first steps into modernity.
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The dog,frighten of being discovered, hides in a diffuse and abstract landscape .Its eyes stare into the void.
¿Afraid of the Gods , Chronos , the God of time and perhaps of a new fate ?.semi-sunken dog
From the fascination with El Perro de Goya , Antonio Saura made a series of works in which the ideas of " emergence ", " birth " and " appearance ", are associated with the anxiety of emptiness.
POETRY - PAINTING
Beauty is not enough.
Not only poems should be beautiful but
also moving and take the sentiments
of listeners where ever they wish.
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
(Horace- Horacio)
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Horacio, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, was an outstanding Latin lyric poet and satirist under the emperor Augustus. The most frequent themes of his Odes and verse Epistles are love, friendship, philosophy, and the art of poetry.
The time and the conflicting society he grew up and lived are reflected in his work . He was surrounded by a fratricide atmosphere in which men linked together by bonds of kinship were killed, repeating again and again the "crime of Romulus " Romulus
Thoughtful poet , it is not surprising that his poems, like those of Virgil who died in 19 BC , summarize the vital sadness of his time.
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Suetonius, the historian, suetonius-tranquillus tells us that Horacio put mirrors on the walls of his bedroom to enjoy sex from every angle .
How many mirrors are needed to discern lies or verify truth? Or were they only mirrors of seduction ? the mirror
PAINTING AND ARCHITECTURE
Giovani Bellini (1430-1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters.His paintings had revolutionized Venetian paintings for the use of colours.
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The German painter, Albrecht Dürer, visited Bellini and was so impressed with the aging artist's skill, saying, "He is very old, and still he is the best painter of them all."
Naked young Woman in front of the mirrow was Bellini´s first female nude, painted in 1515 whwn he was 85 years old. sensuous and coloristic style.
Bellini.Dona nuda allo specchio. 1515 .62x79cm.Oil on wood.
The idealised nude was still the sought-after norm, used mainly for
depicting grand historical scenes, both mythological and religious, with
connotations of heroism and virtue.From 1474 he was the official portrait artist for the Doges of Venice( chief magistrate). In 1479 he was sent to Constantinople by the Venetian government when the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II requested an artist; he returned the next year.
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| Portrait of Mehmet II.1480.oil on canvas .70x52cm.National Gallery London |
Sultan Mehmed II
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| Mehmet´s fortress- Rumeli Hisari (rock of Europe) |
Mehmet´s fortress
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| The fortress and The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge |
Philosophy-Architecture
The " Philosophy of Enlightenment " and its philosophers in the sixteenth century said that our main aim on earth is to get happiness .
Pleasure is a right and the only thing we can get from this world is pleasant sensations and feelings.
In India there already were religions that considered that sex was not only a divine experience but also a pleasant one.
There is a place which is visited by a large number of turists every year. It is in Uttar Pradesh: The Khajuraho Madhya.
The Khajuraho Madhya is the largest of the 25 medieval temples which shows erotic sculptures carved in fine sandstone inspired by the way of life of Tantrism.tantraPainting
Horacio longed for a fair society, but men always succumb to their desires and needs and depend on the time and society in which they are happened to live. Nevertheless, suffering and death have always the same bitter taste.
There are paintings inspired by History, Mythology or the Bible.
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| Delacroix. Shipwreck of Don Juan. 1840.135x196cm. Louvre. |
The Shipwreck depicts a scene from Lord Byron's Don Juan and shows the moment in which Don Juan and a few survivors from a shipwreck draw lots for whom would be sacrificed to feed his starving companions.
This painting was probably made in the 1820s at the very beginning of Delacroix's career. It is an example of the type of subject matter combining suffering and death, which was most favour by Delacroix and the Romantic movement.
Lord Byron
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There are realities that make history , in which barbarism is repeated every time in a greater extent and regularity.
Where would have gone the souls of more than 2,500 people that had drowned in the Mediterranean Sea from January 2015 to October 20015? ¿ To the unwanted Dante Alighieri´s Hell , Purgatory or Paradise ?
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| La commedia illumina Firenze by Domenico di Michelino |
La-commedia-illumina-firenze
Dante and divine-comedy
Domenico di Michelino (1417–1491) was born and died in Florence. He predominantly painted scenes from the Bible. His most famous work can be found on the west wall of Florence's "Duomo" (cathedral). showing Dante Alighieri and the Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy).
The work depicts the city of Florence along with the Hell( a place of torment and punishmen), Mount Purgatory, (where undergo purification)the earthly Paradise (a place of timeless harmony) with Adam and Eve and the celestial spheres.
History-Painting
Miravet (The photo at the beginning of my blog was taken in this castle).
This medieval castle, besides the Ebro river, is Arab in origin. After the conquest of 1153 by the order of the knights Templar was rebuilt and transformed into a fortress-monastery.
The order founded by Hugues des Payns in 1119 with the mission to protect the holy places. It soon became an inspiration for other military orders. Although it had humble beginnings , the order became the most powerful military monastic order of the medieval world. In fact, its interests extended beyond war, diplomacy and political intrigue, as it made up the basis of modern private banking.
The Templars came to possess in the kingdom of Aragon up to 36 castles. After the dissolution of the order these fortresses which were in need of foreign aid were succumbing one after another. One of the last to fall was Miravet on14th December 1308. Miravet castle-castillo de Miravet
The wealth and political power of the Templar Knights increased to such an extent that the order was seen as a threat. In 1306, King Philip IV of France, Philip the Fair, expelled the Jews from France and, in 1307, he annihilated the order of the Knights Templar. Philip was in debt to both groups and he saw them as a "state within the state".The order was accused injustly of heresy in 1307. Clement V ordered its dissolution in 1312.
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Envejecimiento-Ageing
The following table shows the approximate age of aging of different parts of the body
| Parte del cuerpo | Edad aprox. | Part of the body | Aprox. Age | |
| Cerebro | 20 | Brain | 20 | |
| Intestinos | 55 | Gut | 55 | |
| Pecho | 35 | Breast | 35 | |
| Vejiga | 65 | Bladder | 65 | |
| Pulmones | 20 | Lungs | 20 | |
| Voz | 65 | Voice | 65 | |
| Ojos | 40 | Eyes | 40 | |
| Corazón | 40 | Heart | 40 | |
| Hígado | 70 | Liver | 70 | |
| Riñones | 50 | Kidneys | 50 | |
| Próstata | 50 | Prostate | 50 | |
| Huesos | 35 | Bones | 35 | |
| Dientes | 40 | Teeth | 40 | |
| Musculatura | 30 | Muscles | 30 | |
| Oído | 50 | Hearing | 50 | |
| Piel | 20 | Skin | 20 | |
| Sabor y Olor | 60 | Taste and Smell | 60 | |
| Fertilidad | 35 | Fertility | 35 |
We start aging as soon as we are born and some parts of our body are worn out long before we look old.But people are really old when they show a lack of interest in things and start isolated from others.
We should note that the perception of aging varies according to the time and place: An inhabitant of ancient Rome did not exceed the average life span of 20 or 22 years. An European citizen could live as average 50 years in 1900. And today, people can be older than 100 years in some parts of Japan.
The oldest person ever from Japan was Misao Okawa, who died at the age of 117 years 27 days in 2015. The oldest now is Nabi Tajima, aged more than 114 years and Toshie Yorimitsu.| Nabi Tajima | 4 August 1900 |  |
| Toshie Yorimitsu | 30 September 1901 |  |
In fact, human beings are programmed to live 100 to 120 years.
Who dares? I would dare if I were healthy and didn´t feel alone.
Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl was a German dancer, actress, and film director best known for her imposing propaganda films in support of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party, known as “Hitler’s filmmaker,” made some of the greatest and most innovative documentaries ever made. She was one of the most fascinating and controversial personalities of the twentieth century.
Leni died at the age of 101 in 2003. I´m sure, She understood the meaning of life.
Leni Riefenstahl. Leni- Riefenstahl.
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| Leni Riefenstahl. 16 years old. |
PAINTING
Lucian FreudLucian Freud belonged to the School of London, like Francis Bacon and Frank Auerbach. They all emerged after World War II. They paint a expressionist painting .
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| Standing by the rags.1988-9.Oil.168.9 |
He may have had the whole house full of mirrors to activate his passion or was it a simply exaggeration?
Freud´s obsession with the human figure and face made him paint this matter subject steadily for seven decade. He was known for his penetrating gaze and uncompromising nudes
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First World War
Gassed. Oil on canvas 1919 231x 611.1cm.London Imperial War Museum.
Gassed by John Singer Sargent depicts the aftermath of a mustard gas attack with a line of wounded soldiers walking towards a dressing station.
Sargent was commissioned by the British War Memorials Committee to document the war and visited the Western Front in July 1918 spending time with the Guards Division near Arras, and then with the American Expeditionary Forces.
The Mustard Gas was first used by the German Army in 1917. It was one of the most lethal of all the poisonous chemicals used during the war. It was odourless and took 12 hours to take effect.
In Siria is still used, doctors found patients from frontline town of Marea who had symptoms indicating exposure to mustard gas, people suffered from skin lesions, respiratory problems and redness in the eyes (26 August 2015) mustard gas
Gassed reminded me of a painting by the Flemish painter , Pieter Bruegel the Elder(1525-1569), The Parable of the Blind.
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| The Parable of the blind by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.85x1,54. |
This painting, one of the greatest Renaissance works, was finished in 1568 a year before his death. It is a rendering of a New Testament parable, a mixture of moralistic sermon and landscape painting.Groups of blind beggars were a common sight in the 16th century Europe, and were a subject of regular concern to Bruegel.
Who sows hatred and tears is only interested in collecting benefits.
The first world war concided with one of the most creative periods in the history of art, and among the other tragic losses, we should consider the future masterpieces we never got to see and the poems that they never go to wrote.
top ten artists lost in the first world war
Poet, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) won the Military Cross and was killed just a week before the Armistice; on 11 November 1985.
In Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey, there is a memorial stone commemorating poets of the First World War. Sixteen are mentioned by name.poets-of-the-first-world-war
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From his poem Strange meeting
"I am the enemy you killed , my friend.I knew you in this dark, for so you frowned.
Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed.
I parried, but my hands were loath and cold.
let us sleep now".
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The world that erupted in 1914, was the first Europeras conflict of the twentieth century.world war1.
Two groups of powerful states attacked each other with all the means that provided military science including toxic gas.
When the war finished four empires had been destroyed and more than 9 million soldiers, sailors and airmen had died. Over 5 million civilians also died because of the occupation, shelling, starvation and disease.We have to add to this number the mass killing of Armenians in 1915 and those killed by the flu epidemic that started when they were fighting.
Moreover, the flight of Serbs from Serbia, in late 1915 caused many civilian deaths as the Allied naval blockade of Germany in which 750 000 Germans died.
source: World War Martin Gilbert.
Friedrich Nietzsche said :“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
the ten best first world war music
Auguste Renoir pierre auguste Renoir was born in Limoges France, on February 25th 1841. He lived through two wars, the Franco- Prusian War and the Great War, but he never saw any action during them, unlike his friend Frederic Bazille frederic-bazille who was killed in the Franco- Prussian War, when he was 29 years old.
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Renoir´s studio
Other wars
Algerian War
The Franco-Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It created entire
schools of thought for guerrilla warfare and counter-insurgency tactics.
Torture and attacks on civilians became tactics for both the French
government and the rebels.
For France, the loss of what was considered a part of France and not
just a colony was hard to take.It brought down six French
governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de
Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. This brutal war, the bloodiest of all the anticolonial struggles of the decades after World War II. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict and as many European settlers were driven into exile. Above all, the war was marked by an unholy marriage of revolutionary terror and repressive torture. This war ended in Algeria’s independence, and both France and Algeria have struggled in the 50 years since to get past the legacy of the war.
The film Far From Men is based on Albert Camus’s 1942 novel L’Étranger that wrote before the war Broke up in 1954.
PLOT: A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident, and is then ordered to turn him in to the authorities. far-from-men-david-oelhoffen.
OTHER WRITERS
Today we can all be nomads travelling different and distant places on the web.
Mahmoud Essadi is the Algerian male name Isabelle Eberhardt, who did her first trip to Africa at the age of 20 (1897). She went to the Sahara on horseback and lived among nomads. She converted to Islam and joined a Sufi brotherhood that fought against French colonization.Eberhardt signed books and stories that would be published in France, such as Algerian novels, In the shadow of Islam, etc.
She wrote "A nomad I will always remain, in love with distant and inexplorados places"
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(ECSTACY)Ecstacy in feeling and music:
Russian composers have created some of the most beautiful and powerful Classical Music.Alexander Scriabin, considered by some to be the main Russian Symbolist Composer, wrote the poem of ecstacy op. 54 also known as his 4th symphony. It´s a 300 line long poem. It tells the long course of the spirit through the space, liberated from the human body (like in the "Übermensch" theory of Friederich Nietzsche).
THE POEM OF ECSTASY by Alexander Scriabin.
- I call you to life, oh mysterious forces!
- Drowned in the obscure depths
- Of the creative spirit, timid
- Shadows of life, to you I bring audacity!
IThis is the version of Pierre Boulez with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
The paintings are :
Gustav Klimt : Beethovenfries : "Die Schwebenden"
Vassili Kandinsky : "Bleu de ciel"
Gustav Klimt : "Die Musik"
Vassili Kandinsky : Sketch for the "Composition VII"
Gustav Klimt : Beethovenfries : "Hymne an den Glück"
Vassili Kandinsky : "Composition VII"
Vassili Kandinsky : "Composition VI"
William Turner : "Sunset over a lake"
Vassili Kandinsky : "De courbe à courbe"
Gustav Klimt : Beethovenfries : "Die drei Gorgonen"
Vassili Kandinsky : "Improvisation Klamm"
Vassili Kandinsky : "Improvisation XII"
Caspar David Friedrich : "Frau vor untergehender Sonne"
Ecstacy in feeling and sculpture:
The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa by Bernini (1598-1680) is one of the greatest sculptures from the era of Baroque (L´Estati di Santa Teresa). It is located in the Cornaro Chapel of the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Roma.
Saint Teresa of Avila is famous por the extraordinary physical and emotional ecstasy she experienced in communion with God. In this sculpure she looks as though she is in the middle of an orgasm.The sculpture represents an episode from the life of the saint as recorded in her spiritual autobiography.
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Ecstacy in the imagination and painting.
Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel frescoes:
Michelangelo is widely regarded as the most famous artist of the Italian
Renaissance. Among his works are the "David" and "Pieta" statues and
the Sistine Chapel frescoes.
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Roberto Matta and his extraordinary imagination:
Roberto Matta Roberto Matta is one of the great pioneers of modernist abstraction. His monumentally scaled, epic paintings depicting the inner workings of the human psyche would influence a generation of artists, notably the abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky, and Robert Motherwell.
Matta was one of the first painters of the modern era to attempt to visually depict the complexities of the human psyche in abstract forms, using his paintings ‘to make the invisible visible’.
His masterful handling of paint and his poetic, mystical rendering of fantastical, cosmic spaces, inevitably make his works stand out as pre-eminent masterpieces of 20th century abstraction. They also helped cement his legacy as one of the first Latin American visual artists to become not only internationally renowned, but also highly influential worldwide.
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Los Angeles and Matta
La Vertu Noire-Black Virtue 1943.Oil on canvas.765x1826mm. Tate Gallery.
"Nada-Nothing” 1943, oil on canvas, 28 ¾ by 36 ¼ inches
Philosophy
Surrealism means a total liberation of the mind and of all that resembles it. A philosopphy of life founded in knowledge of the deepest part of the the self and on a will to change the world.
While the alienation of the beginning of the 20th century proceeded from explotation in the workplace, in the 21th century proceeds from the brainwashing.
Alfred Kubin and his extraorinary drawings:
1902 - 25 años
Salto mortal
Material: Pluma y tinta sobre papel.
Medidas: 30,2 x 22,7 cm.
Museo: Colección privada. Viena
Kubin is irrefutably one of the most original talents of his generation. Whether painting directly from his hallucinatory visions or illustrating the works of such literary giants as Balzac, Poe, Dostoevsky, and Gogol, Kubin eschewed the decorative artistry of earlier Austrian art.
The Sardine-Trapped
Oh For The Life Of A Sardine by Charles Chaplin
Limelight
For the life of a sardine appeared in the film Limelight (1952), a comedy-drama film written, directed and starring by Chaplin.
It tells the story of a fading music hall comedian.
Chaplin was also a composer and musician.
When I was three my nurse told me
About reincarnation
And ever since I've been convinced,
Thrilled with anticipation
That when I leave this earthIt makes my heart feel warmTo know that I'll returnIn some other form.But I don't want to be a treeSticking in the ground -- I'd sooner be a flea.I don't want to be a flowerWaiting by the hourHoping for pollens to alight on me.So when I cease to beI want to go back, I want to go back, I want to go back to the sea!Oh for the lifeThat is the life for me!Cavorting and spawning every morningUnder the deep blue sea.To have no fear for storm nor gale.Oh to chase the tail of a whale!Oh for the life of a sardine!That is the life for me!
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON
Gilbert Keith Chesterton wrote:
"For I saw that finny goblin
Hidden in the abyss untrod,
and I knew there can be laughter
on the secret face of good".
G.K. Chesterton was born on May 29, 1874 in London. He was truly writer, producing academic commentary, poetry and short stories. His interest in theology and conversion to Catholicism led him to write religious fiction. In 1908, he wrote the novel The Man Who Was Thursday. His most popular work was a detective series featuring a sleuth named Father Brown. He died in 1936.
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GUNTER GRASS
Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning German novelist and social critic was the moral conscience of his country’s post-war era. Grass gained international notoriety with his 1959 book The Tin Drum, his books are known around the world, . But in addition to his literary achievements, among his accomplishments were also painting , sculpture and engravings.
He was a universal genius who explored the many dimensions of artistic expression.
He was a talented painter, sculptor and Illustrator - a universal genius who explored the many dimensions of artistic expression.
The flounder flounder, which was also a important novel, begins in the
Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot
where millennia later Grass's home town, Danzig, will arise. Like the
fish, the fisherman is immortal, and down through the ages they move
together.
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DANCING
Diaghilev´s Ballets Russes
Sergei Diaghilev´s company, ballet as well as opera. was launched in 1909 . It included the best young Russian dancers among then Anna Pavlova, Adolph Bolm, Vaslav Nijinsky, Tamara Karsavina and Vera Karalli. Their first night at the Paris Opéra on 19th May 1909 was a sensation.
The final season for Diaghilev´s Ballets Russes was in 1929. On July 26th, the company gave its final performance at Covent Garden Theatre in London. Diaghilev died in Venice, Italy, on August 19, 1929.
The American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet and San Francisco Ballet Company are its direct descendants.
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Anna Pavlova
Pavlova´s dessert
The The dessert - meringue with fruit and cream - was named after the
She was the most celebrated dancer or her time.
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The tree
Tree......
a fund of wealth!
In you we observe the gigantification
of time and of landscape
Miguel Hernandez
TREES:
The planet´s forest cover a total of around 40 millions square kilometres, and these forests may together contain between three and six millions trees, which is tantamount to between 300 and 600 trees per person currently living today.....but there are far fewer than at any other moment in history. Joaquín Araujo 2011.
Width growth of trees is done in a discontinuous manner, it takes place in spring and summer and is interrupted in the cold season. The concentric circles that we can see when a tree trunk is cut correspond to the phases of growth. The darkest circles mean the oldest cells. The clearest correspond to the youngest cell growth period. The number of years of life of tree is therefore the number of dark stripes that it has.
The Mulberry tree (1889) by Van Gogh. In this painting Autumn is taking over the tree, with yellow and oranges leaves dominating the composition , in contract with the blue sky.
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Gustav Klimt and the tree of life (1905-11)The-Tree-Of-Life
ROOTS
Van Gogh-RootsThe inferior of necessity provides the foundation the superior (Lao Tsé) The book of Tao
Van Gogh spent the last few months of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town just north of Paris, after he left an asylum at Saint-Rémy in May 1890. Tree Roots is considered by some to be his last painting before his death late July 1890.
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To Theo van Gogh :
.......I’ve now finished two larger drawings....The other one, ‘Roots’, is some tree roots in sandy ground. I’ve tried to imbue the landscape with the same sentiment as the figure(sorrow).
Frantically and fervently rooting itself, as it were in the earth and yet being half torn .I wanted to express something of life´s struggle,.....
CONCENTRIC CIRLES
Kandinsky
The abstract picture Colour study Square with concentric circles, is a mixed technique on paper.
Yellow is defined by Kandinsky as " an intense trumpet blast by its nature springing from the page" and blue as having a celestial sound that touches the depths". these colours are both present in this picture.
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| Color study:Squares with concentric circles.Kandinsky.1913 |
According to Kandisnsky "Colour is a power which directly influences the soul"
LOVE
Love does not consist gazing at each other, but in loking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Saint-Exupéry was a fascinating character. He made his fame in the arena of literature, with both prose and poetry, but he also was a notable aviator. He was one of the pioneers of international postal flights, during an era in which flying was hardly even minimally safe. After France fell to Nazi Germany, he managed to talk his way into a position as a reconnaissance pilot, despite being too old to meet the requirements and practically crippled from previous crashes and chronic gallstones. He disappeared during a flight in 1944. Wreckage of his plane was discovered at sea many years later, and confirmed finally in 2004.
Watercolour by Saint-Exupéry
The baobab has a bizarre shape, a spectacularly bulbous trunk
and root-like branches.The baobab appears in the popular children´s novella, Le Petit Prince (1943) by Saint-Exupéry. in order to sugget a reflection on endurane, temporality and extinction .
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The Red Tree,red-tree one of the most important in Mondrian s series on the tree theme, was done in the same year as the Windmill in Sunlight. In its color range and brushwork, and above all in its conception of nature, it shows many points of contact with that other picture. Here too there seems to be a definite influence of Vincent van Gogh's work.
The spatial dimension of depth is suggested by the color, by the deep blue that Vincent van Gogh identified with infinity.
THE MOON
A Trip to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la lune) is a 1902 French black and white silent science fiction film. It is loosely based on two popular novels of the time: From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne and The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells.
A trip to the moon
LANDSCAPES
Georgia O´keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe Georgia-O keeffe is one of the most significant and intriguing artists of the twentieth century, known internationally for her boldly innovative art. Her distinct flowers, dramatic cityscapes, glowing landscapes, and images of bones against the stark desert sky are iconic and original contributions to American Modernism.
She is one of the most important modern painters who looked for the mistic side of nature as well as her friend Arthur G. Dove. Arthur G. Dove
The desert and Georgia
Taos Mountain
Biography stieglitz
Arthur Dove made his mark in early twentieth century American Art through his resolute commitment to abstraction. He was one of the first painters, whether European or American to commit himself so avidly and so brilliantly to the promise of abstract art, and he pursued this mode of painting until his death.
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POETRY AND URBANISM
New York and Walt Whitman /Walt-whitman
New York´s skyline might be dominated by the skyscraper but the ral heart of the city can be found in the architecture fo the 19th and early 20th century. Dutch colonist rechristened The Island of Hills or New Netherland was renamed New York in 1664. Manhattan grew into a cramped megalopis of refugees and inmigrants. Central Park was built in 1857 and the first underground subway opened in 1904.
The Jungle and Lam
Rain Forest
The actors are
all very tall;
a good plot
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WIFREDO LAM AND THE JUNGLE |
| Wilfredo Lam. 1943. gouache on paper . 239.4 x 229.9 |
Lam painted The Jungle the jungle, his masterpiece, two years after returning to his native Cuba from Europe, where he had been a member of the Surrealist movement. The work, “intended to communicate a psychic state,” Lam said, depicts a group of figures with crescentshaped faces that recall African or Pacific Islander masks, against a background of vertical, striated poles suggesting Cuban sugarcane fields. Together these elements obliquely address the history of slavery in colonial Cuba.
Philip Guston took a leave of absence from Washington University, in St. Louis, in spring of 1947, bringing with him an unfinished canvas- Porch No. 2. The two academic years he had spent there fostered his social indignation. His representations of the KU klux Klan were powerful indictments.
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Auroras
Auroras- The northern lights
The origin of the northern lights formation is found on solar explosions releasing particles into space that meet the Earth´s magnetic field.the-northern-lights
The Auroras are actually the result of collisions between gaseous particles in the Earth's atmosphere with charged particles released from the sun's atmosphere. Variations in colour are due to the type of gas particles that are colliding. The most common auroral color, a pale yellowish-green, is produced by oxygen molecules located about 60 miles above the earth. Rare, all-red auroras are produced by high-altitude oxygen, at heights of up to 200 miles. Nitrogen produces blue or purplish-red aurora.
THE KISS(Auguste Rodin)
By the start of the 20th century Rodin was sthe most celebrated sculptor since the Neoclassical period.
He is considered the originator of the moderm sculpture, but he was also an important draughtsman and innovator.
Working feverishly on the Gates of Hell for several years, Rodin created over 200 figures and groups, The thinker
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| the kiss.1889.181,50x112,30x117.00 |
Rodin had been impressed by the struggle of Michelangelo´s Slaves against the remnants of the blocks that imprison them. The kiss less powerful than the thinker are considered his most influential and powerful work. Both of them exploits another kind of artful unfinishedness.
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the-thinker
kiss
the_kiss . It took 10 years to Auguste Rodin to complete this sculpture, from 1888 to 1898. The couple are the adulterous lovers Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini, who were slain by Francesca’s outraged husband. They appear in Dante’s Inferno, which describes how their passion grew as they read the story of Lancelot and Guinevere together. The book can just be seen in Paolo’s hand.
camille-claudel Claudel Camille(1864-1943) entered Rodin´s studio as a 19-year- old and for the next decade she was his artistic collaborator and his mistress
The kiss by Francesco Hayes.the-kiss-hayez-
A kiss can be the most innocent or intimate of moments.........
famous-kissing-photographs
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| Le baiser de l´hòtel de Ville by Robert Doisneau |
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| V-J Day in Times Square |
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| Kiss of life by Rocco Morabito |
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| Vancouver Riots Kiss by Richard Lam |
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RED TELEPHONE BOXES
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When they are removed
from the streets, they end up in the telephone cementry where they are repaired. . Some are bought by bars, shops or people who want to have them in their houses.
Those manufactured before 1952 and that have a small crown are the most appreciated and despite their high price people are queueing up to acquire them. Others have been re-formed and use solar energy to recharge mobiles or have become small libraries.
Those manufactured before 1952 and that have a small crown are the most appreciated and despite their high price people are queueing up to acquire them. Others have been re-formed and use solar energy to recharge mobiles or have become small libraries.
The most common
use is for tourism purposes , the photo you want to take as a souvenir of you
stay in Britain.
LOTUS FLOWER
Many think that the lotus flower best represents all the journey of life.
For Buddhists, the lotus flower symbolizes the most exalted state of
human; head held high, pure and undefiled in the sun, feet rooted in the
world of experience, so many think that the lotus flower best represents all the journey of life.
Different meanings of colours of lotus
buddhism/symbols/lotus
The lotus and Vishnu
the lotus and Lakshmi
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| Jарaneѕе lоtus flowеrѕ arе uѕually paіntеd аlong to kоi fish Japanese-Koi-Fish-Tattoo. history tattoo |
The koi fish has a powerful and energetic life force, demonstrated by
its ability to swim against currents and even travel upstream
For Buddhists, the lotus flower symbolizes the most exalted state of
human; head held high, pure and undefiled in the sun, feet rooted in the
world of experience, so many think that the lotus flower best represents all the journey of life.
The koi fish has a powerful and energetic life force, demonstrated by
its ability to swim against currents and even travel upstream
Painting
Adolf von Menzel (1815-1905) was considered to be the best German painter in the XIX century .His painting between Romanticism and Impressionism were in a realistic style.
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| Adolf von Menzel. Hand holding a book .1864.25cmx18cm. |
- FRANCIS BACON(1561- 1626)-RENÉ DESCARTES(1596-1650)- VELAZQUEZ-FRANCIS BACON
During the Middle Ages, sight and other senses had symbolised corruption , but during the 16th Century, Francis Bacon laid the foundation of empiricism, giving them dignity and affirming that they constituted the natural conection between human mind and nature.
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Descartes
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Velazquez and Francis Bacon
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| VELÁZQUEZ, Diego, Inocencio X, 1650, Óleo sobre lienzo, 140 cm x 120 cm, Galería Doria Pamphili, Roma. |
Velazquez depicted the Pope, a man like any other, he preferred to address the anguish of the body and sould. It´s this focus that makes his portrait of Pope Inocent X so unsetting.
Three centuries later Francis Bacon in his "Painting study after Velazquez" the cleric is transformed into a howling pope who loos as if he has been hurled into hell.
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| BACON,
Francis, Estudio según el retrato del Papa Inocencio X por Velázquez,
1953, Óleo sobre lienzo, 153 cm x 118 cm, Art Center, Des Moines (EEUU). Three centuries later Francis Bacon in his "Painting study after Velazquez" the cleric is transformed into a howling pope who loos as if he has been hurled into hell. |
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| Gustav Klimt. Oil on canvas. 73x83cm, |
Rose Auslander
Rose Ausländer, maiden name Rosalie Beatrice Scherzer, was a
Jewish German- and English language poet. She was born in Bucovina, and
lived in the United States, Romania, and Germany
She owned only two suitcases throughout her lifeRose auslaender
Poem
So viel (in German)Wer kann so viel sagen wie er will
Wer will so viel wie er denkt
Wer denk so viel wie er lebt.
So Much
Who can say as much as he wants
Who can wish as much as he thinks
Who can live as well as he thinks
Baudelaire and Mme Sabatier
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Baudelaire and Jeanne Duval and Manet
Baudelaire and Mme Sabatier
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