GIACOMETTI ~ FEELING LIKE A CHILD

“I am a writer and I want to write.” ― Jane Bowles Fear and Hope “Like most people, you
MARIA YAKUNCHIKOVA (1870-1902) WOMEN WITH A PASSION FOR ART The first female artist I want to introduce in the series
MARC AND BELLA CHAGALL ~ A COLORFUL LOVE “In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s
“Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.”
ANTONI TAPIES
Barcelona, 1923 – 2012, painter, sculptor.
Tàpies eschewed traditional painting materials and championed the use of all sorts of other materials long before arte povera became a fashionable critical notion. He did in fact invent a new form of material expression.
“I am a writer and I want to write.” ― Jane Bowles Fear and Hope “Like most people, you
MARIA YAKUNCHIKOVA (1870-1902) WOMEN WITH A PASSION FOR ART The first female artist I want to introduce in the series
Federico Garcia Lorca “Let there be a landscape of open eyes and bitter wounds on fire. No one is sleeping
“I am a writer and I want to write.” ― Jane Bowles Fear and Hope “Like most people, you
THE SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR EFFECT “I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.” SIMONE
ONE WAY TO READ A BOOK In the opinion of the famous writer Doris Lessing there is only one
Arthur Hughes (1832-1915)
Ophelia in literature
Russian novelist Fyodor Dostojevski , in the first chapter of his 1880 masterpiece The Brothers Karamazov, described a capricious young woman who committed suicide by throwing herself off a steep cliff into a river, simply to imitate Shakespeare’s Ophelia. Dostoevsky concludes that “Even then, if the cliff, chosen and cherished from long ago, had not been so picturesque, if it had been merely a flat, prosaic bank, the suicide might not have taken place at all.” Dostoevksy also depicts the heroine Grushenka as Ophelia, binding the two through the words “Woe is me!” in the chapter entitled “The First Torment.”
This intense novel is about a young mother and wife called Zoe Kruller, who is brutally murdered. It uses mixed storylines
“You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.” Anonymous Girl Reading
“I am a writer and I want to write.” ― Jane Bowles Fear and Hope “Like most people, you
“I am a writer and I want to write.” ― Jane Bowles Fear and Hope “Like most people, you
MARIA YAKUNCHIKOVA (1870-1902) WOMEN WITH A PASSION FOR ART The first female artist I want to introduce in the series
ONE WAY TO READ A BOOK In the opinion of the famous writer Doris Lessing there is only one
MARIA YAKUNCHIKOVA (1870-1902) WOMEN WITH A PASSION FOR ART The first female artist I want to introduce in the series
MARC AND BELLA CHAGALL ~ A COLORFUL LOVE “In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s
WILLIAM BOUGUEREAU AND HIS PASSION FOR PAINTING “Each day I go to my studio full of joy; in the evening
MONIQUE
UNA FLOR SE DESPERTO EN TU SOÑAR
VIAJANDO ENTRE ESTRELLAS Y SUSPIROS
The artist Javier Aliste searches for the syncretism of our current cultural identity. To find his answers he has been
TERESA WILMS MONTT POET FROM CHILE (Viña del Mar, 1893 – París 1921): She was born in a wealthy family,
DUSK I feel my heart melting in the mildness like candles my veins are slow oil and not wine, and
Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939). Woman with Daisies, 1898-99. www.passionforpaintings.com
Wish you all a very merry Christmas ♥♥♥ Anton Heinrich Dieffenbach A Christmas Party -1865 www.passionforpaintings.com www.moniquespassions.com
Zodiac, color litho by Alphons Maria Mucha, 1896 The Mucha Trust
“I am a writer and I want to write.” ― Jane Bowles Fear and Hope “Like most people, you
MARC AND BELLA CHAGALL ~ A COLORFUL LOVE “In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s
THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,
Series Women and their Passion for Books “What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and
A poem by Paul Eluard “I cannot be known Better than you know me Your eyes in which we sleep
A WRITER LOVES HER CAT. “I went to collect the few personal belongings which…I held to be invaluable: my cat,