Faith saved us from the savages that we were, losing faith makes us savages again
Bueno L’Ultima Cena de Leonardo da Vinci no es un cuadro, es un fresco, pero que se va hacer… Aquí os traigo algunos cuadros muy famosos que hay que conocer.
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Ok, so Leonardo’s Last Supper is not a painting, it is a fresco, oh well… But here I bring to you some of the most famous paintings in art history that we all should be acquainted with.
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The weightlessness of feeling cautious love as one is floating like a cloud,
can be like warm chilled breezes that caress the gentle sea,
the moistened lips, embraces, circle round like grains of sand that cry beneath one’s feet.
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A Euro-Ku is my homage to the Japanese haiku (poem), but made from a Western perspective. There are no syllabic restrictions, just three parts, which must communicate directly the message, and an original illustration by the author. The euro-ku must flow logically and not drift off into outer space. As a non-Japanese person it would be impossible for me to imitate a formal haiku as I’ve not the history or the experience of one born in Japan.
If you have not visited Cádiz, in Andalucia, Spain, at least take a look, you might like what you see…
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Amrita nació en Hungría (1913) y murió en Pakistan (1941), pero se le considera una artista india. Su padre era punjabi sikh y su madre húngara de origen judío. Se le conoce como la «Frida Kahlo» de la India y al mismo tiempo se dice que es la pintora india más importante del siglo XX. Bueno, esto no lo entiendo porque si es la más importante no puede tener relación alguna con una tan poco importante como Frida Kahlo. Amrita fue la única asiática que expuso en el Gran Salón de París… Estudio pintura en París… sus referentes fueron Renoir, Modigliani, Cézanne y Gauguin, de este ultimo se inspiro para pintar su Autorretrato como tahitiana (1934)… En 1934 regresó a la India y comenzó a pintar escenas de su país. En 1937 se traslado a Hungría. En 1941 se mudo a Lahore donde en pocos días murió inesperadamente. Tenía 28 años de edad.
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Amrita was born in Hungary (1913) and died in Pakistan (1941), but is considered an Indian artist. Her father was Punjabi Sikh and her mother was Hungarian of Jewish origin. She is known as the «Frida Kahlo» of India, yet it is said that she is the most important Indian painter of the 20th century. Well, I don’t understand this because if she is so important, she cannot have any relation with someone as unimportant as Frida Kahlo. Amrita was the only Asian to exhibit at the Grand Salon of Paris… She studied painting in Paris… her influences were Renoir, Modigliani, Cézanne, and Gauguin, from the latter she drew inspiration to paint her Self Portrait as a Tahitian (1934)… In 1934, she returned to India and began painting scenes of her country. In 1937, she moved to Hungary. In 1941, she relocated to Lahore where she unexpectedly passed away after a few days. She was 28 years old.
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Quizá dejó la mayor parte de su obra sin terminar porque era un poco flojo, bueno, eso no lo sabemos, pero si sabemos que cuando se le dificultaba la faena lo dejaba y seguía hacia otra cosa… Aquí veréis algo y espero que os sirva para seguir la búsqueda.
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Perhaps he left the majority of his work unfinished because he was a little lazy, but we do not know that. What we have been able to uncover is that when things got a little complicated he would walk away from the project and venture onto something different… In any event, here is something that I hope will encourage you to look further.
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I had heard of his name but knew very little about Raza… Raza lived and worked in France for most of his life. He was born in Kakkaiya, Mandla, now Madhya Pradesh, India, in 1922. Although he lived in France from 1950 to 2010, he always maintained strong ties with his country and was well known there as well as in France… Raza received many honours for his work:
His painting Saurashtra sold for over three million US dollars at Christie’s in 2010.
Raza was a well educated artist. He started his art training at the Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai, from 1943 to 1947. Once he moved to France in 1950 he studied at the École Nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSB-A), in Paris from 1950 to1953, having won a French government scholarship. He was awarded the Prix de la critique in Paris in 1956. He was the first non-French artist to receive the honour.
His work was mostly expressionist at first but gradually went transitioning to abstract. He also incorporated elements of Tantrism from Indian scriptures. He continued to re-invent himself and his art, leaving behind the expressionist landscape and opting for more of a geometric abstraction and «Bindu». Raza believed Bindu was the centre of creation and existence which progressed towards forms, colours, energy, sound, space and time.
Reza died at the age of 94 (2016) in New Delhi and is buried next to his father’s grave in Mandla city’s kabristan.
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Algunos dirán que no, que el mejor es Leonardo da Vinci, y yo les respeto la opinión, pero a mi no me caben dudas que el verdadero maestro de la pintura renacentista fue Botticelli. Y cuando veáis el vídeo lo notarás.
Some would say no, it was Leonardo da Vinci. And I will respect that opinion but for me, no doubt, the real Master of Renaissance painting was Botticelli. And when you watch the video you will see why.
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