A movie on Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum.
I've just got it and the movie's already playing!
Want to know more about arts and mind? Expression and consciousness? Want to know new art? Have you ever thought about art?
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Since my last time at the bookshop, I realized that I had to organize my books somehow. And I know that most of you, art people, do like to read too (as you are reading this), so I thought of sharing this with you. It's one of the nicest solutions I've ever seen for bookkeeping and I wish I could do it at home.
The bookshelf staircase was created by Levitate Architects, an English company based in
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Tags: architecture, book, bookshelf, staircase
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Tags: Hieronymus Bosch, Jacques Resch, Magic Realism, Pieter Brueghel, Rob Gonsalves, Salvador Dalí, Surrealism, symbolism
This is the first non-art post here. And I believe that most art blogs and sites don't talk about it either, which makes this post important.
If you're not web-savvy, you probably don't know what RSS is. Even if you are, there's the slight possibilty of not knowing. I've being using the RSS feature for over three months now (I know) and it really changed my opinion about it. RSS stands for "Rich Site Summary" or like some people like to call it: "Really Simple Syndication". RSS is good for a lot of reasons. Not only for readers but also for webpublishers.
It allows you to get the updates from a site on a small software (like FeedReader) or site (like Google Reader, BlogLines and My Yahoo). It works almost as an e-mail software. The good thing is: you don't have to visit every site you're interested in, because their updates are shown automatically to you. You don't have to provide your e-mail (although there is the possibility to subscribe by email too - here presented on the sidebar), you just have to add the feed url to your software/webbased reader. To do that, just click on the orange icon above.
Happy RSS-reading!
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Tags: help, information, RSS
My bookshelf is full. Once again. I did buy 18 new books and I'm not in a reading-mood. I'm reading one of my latest acquisitions now, slowly, crossing references and this research has been consuming a lot of the time I originally set to The Inner Breath.
Good things are: the new art site I've been programming is now coming together. I believe that it will be, at most, a month before it's up. Also, the new books on Symbolism, Absolute Music and What are the arts for, are great!
Here's my latest read: What Good are the Arts? - by John Carey
Great book with insights on modern acceptance of modern art.
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Tags: aestethics, art, book, John Carey, philosophy, The Inner Breath, What Good are the Arts
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Tags: Evelyn C Leeper, Fantasy, Magic Realism
[Still Waters - Rob Gonsalves]
Reader Oyvind has suggested some artwork in the previous message that reminded me of the art of Rob Gonsalves.
Rob Gonsalves (1959-) is one prolific artist from Toronto, Canada, with a large gallery of paintings and drawings that unite Magic Realism and a bit of Surrealism. During his childhood, Gonsalves was interested in drawing and learned perspective techniques, while starting to painting when he was about twelve years old. When Gonsalves was introduced to Dali, Tanguy, Magritte and Escher, he started painting his surrealist and "magic realist" images. After a great critique response in the 1990s, Rob Gonsalves has dedicated himself to painting full time.
I have found three nice galleries of his works on the web, which also sell them. Here they are:
Rob Gonsalves (official)
Progressive Art
HROSecure
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Tags: Drawing, Magic Realism, Painting, Rob Gonsalves, Surrealism
For quite some days, I've been searching the internet for sites (blogs or not) that share the same focus that The Inner Breath has. It's quite hard, though. Apart from the sites linked on the right panel, I couldn't find anything relevant. A lot of blogs on art news (as to 'new exhibits') but nothing regarding esthetics, consciousness and art. So, if you know a good site, share it here! Let's build a nice network!
You're all invited to share a reading, be it a blog, a full site, a book, an article, anything. :)
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Tags: interaction, reading, suggestion
[Azure Fern - mArta Bevacqua]
For "The Thin Ice" (The Wall movie), Ulrick wrote "What he thought to be a warm, nurturing ocean turned out to be cold and sterile; the loving mother and the embracing life have become frozen and unyielding. The "sea may look warm" but it is, in all actuality, a layer of thin ice covering a frigid, aqueous landscape."
The thin ice that hides a "frigid, aqueous landscape" is a recurring image to the modern personality stereotypes. We all have some sadness hidden, still hurting, but we've still got our daily things to do, there's still rent to pay. Sometimes we think that one is quite happy for one's achievements, but there always is something hidden...
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Tags: mArta Bevacqua, symbolism, The Thin Ice, the wall
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings is a literary tale by Gabriel García Marquéz. The title sums it up. It's a tale about an winged old man that arrives in a town.
William Morris wrote about it in the Motley Vision, in the second part of his Magic Realism analysis.
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Tags: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, Gabriel García Marquéz, Literature, Magic Realism, Motley Vision, William Morris
So, what the hell is Magic Realism?
Magic Realism is an artistic movement in which supernatural events occur in reality. The main characteristic is that the event itself is not seen as magic in this setting (the characters don't see it as magic), it's just "another event".
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Tags: Gabriel García Marquéz, José Saramago, Magic Realism, René Magritte, Rob Gonsalves, Salvador Dalí, Tim Burton