Ich habe tolle, sonnige Impressionen mitgebracht. Jede Sonnenblume an sich ein Indi-wie-DU-um wie wir, jede geht ihren eigenen Weg. Irre. Jede ist auf ihre Art anders, wie wir Menschen. Ich werde die kommenden Tage noch ein paar Exemplare zeigen.

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04/07/2008, São Paulo - Um Certo Van Gogh

Depois de passar, com sucesso, por algumas cidades brasileiras, chega ao Teatro Folha, para sua primeira temporada fixa, “Um Certo Van Gogh”.

O espetáculo, que mescla as angústias do pintor do século 19 às dos jovens de hoje, estréia em 4 de julho e fica em cartaz até 31 de agosto, de sexta a domingo.

Apesar da referência ao mestre holandês da pintura, o protagonista de “Um Certo Van Gogh” é Timóteo, estudante que, no século 21, em meio a dúvidas e incertezas que a juventude produz, se identifica com a vida e a obra do artista. Ambos – Timóteo e Van Gogh – são interpretados por Bruno Gagliasso, também co-realizador do espetáculo.

04/07/2008, São Paulo -  Na pele de Josef K

A peça nos conta a absurda história de Josef K., personagem inspirado no universo kafkiano, que, depois de passar meses desempregado, consegue uma vaga em uma empresa.

No processo de admissão, recebe a notícia de que está morto. Costurando todas as situações, o jogo dos atores é recheado de humor e de figuras ficcionais extraídas do universo de histórias em quadrinhos.

Debate com Sueli Rolnik: Cartografia da Subjetividade, dia 24 de julho

Duração do evento: 120 minutos

Horário: 20h00

Preço: gratuito

Idade recomendada: 12 anos

04/07/2008, São Paulo - Balé da Cidade de São Paulo estréia coreografia de Cayetano Soto

O Balé da Cidade de São Paulo dá seqüência à temporada 2008, que marca os 40 anos da companhia, com a estréia mundial de Canela Fina.

Assinada pelo badalado coreógrafo espanhol Cayetano Soto, a obra será apresentada entre os dias 04 e 09 de julho, no Teatro Municipal de São Paulo.

A coreografia é uma produção conjunta do Balé da Cidade e do Gran Teatro del Liceu de Barcelona, na Espanha – uma das mais importantes casas de espetáculo do mundo. Em setembro, Canela Fina será apresentada em Barcelona, Bonn (Alemanha) e Biarritz (França), como parte da próxima turnê internacional do grupo.

Durante a temporada no Municipal, o público poderá conferir uma exposição sobre o Balé da Cidade, no Salão Nobre do teatro. Fotos, programas e documentos que relatam a história da companhia integram a mostra, com curadoria da pesquisadora Ana Francisca Ponzio e projeto de museografia de Álvaro Razuk.

O programa traz ainda as coreografias Dualidade@br, de Gagik Ismailian, e Perpetuum, de Ohad Naharin.

Os ingressos para o espetáculo custam de R$ 10 a R$ 15 (no dia 08, de R$ 5 a R$ 10) e já estão à venda na bilheteria do teatro (tel. 011 3222-8698) ou pela Ticketmaster (tel. 011 6846-6000).

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Detlev Foth

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2008

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Detlev Foth

2008

Who am I?

I'm a mom, wife, sister, cousin, aunt, friend, and, well, me. I'm in my thirties. My daughter is autistic, and I may well be mildly autistic. In fact, I'm pretty sure I am. I don't have an official diagnosis for now. As my doctor put it, would knowing for sure change anything other than knowing? That's not as cold as it sounds. I'm already working on a lot of things, and ninety-nine percent of it applies even if I had an official Asperger Syndrome label.

Other things about me...

I'm a Virgo. I'm not into astrology that much, but my personality matches my sign to an almost frightening degree. I like things just so in a lot of ways. An observer might debate that claim, especially if they see how messy and disorganized my house and mind are. I think it's a thing where the subconscious picks and chooses what's important to address.

I'm a stay-at-home mom, aka a SAHM (I pronounce it "Suh-hmm"--just for fun). My daughter is autistic. She's close to the middle of the autistic spectrum. Don't know what that is? Google "Autistic Spectrum Disorder" or ASD. She's six.

My daughter talks, albeit softly and, at times, indecipherable. I continue to marvel when she says anything complex, even though it occurs more often all the time. She doesn't use the toilet if she can help it. I keep telling her I'm going to puke on her feet one of these times from cleaning poop off her butt. If that sounds mean, well, I don't apologize. I just want her to know it's a possibility. Despite the speech and bathroom issues, I can't say as I've ever met a sweeter, more gentle little girl. She has a big heart and soul. I don't think she's retarded, just reserved. At least, I hope that's the case. No one knows for sure. She's an enigma. I adore her.

I also have a son who is under a year old. He seems to be doing great. I always add "knock on wood." I try not to be superstitious, I really try, but I keep having things happen after saying they haven't so far. It's a false correlation, I know. Still, "Knock on Wood!"

My husband is not necessarily the kind of guy you might expect me to have married. He's very left brained, while I am very right brained. Where I might write a story or draw a picture, he'll work on computer code. Where I follow my heart, he believes in efficiency. (Note: I said efficiency, not logic.) Where I talk to much, he'll keep quiet. I don't think I need to go on.

I come from a highly dysfunctional family. As much as I try to avoid adverbs, this time it's necessary. Most families are dysfunctional to some degree or another. Mine is the kind of family that makes "normal" people alternately cringe or blankly stare. (Oops, two more adverbs!)

If I don't get more organized--or more mature--my little family here will be dysfunctional. I think most people expect their grown-up lives to be just so, to take what didn't work during their child- and young adulthoods and fix it for their kids. That's a joke! We make our own messes that our kids will feel the need to clean.

My hope is to share what it's like to march to the beat of me, my own drummer. I'm not alone in how I relate to the world. I don't think I am, anyway. Maybe, through the use of my writing and art skills, people like me can make more sense to "mainstream" or "normal" people. And if not, at least I can show the value of being an oddball. After all, who do we remember: Joe Shmoe, or Albert Einstein?

Some of my favorite oddballs: Mark Twain (Sam Clemens was related to my family), Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Steven Hawking, Ben Franklin, Einstein... Me

"notte stellata" di Vincent Van Gogh. Era considerato un pazzo, un depresso, un malato di mente...e di fatto lo era. Grazie alla sua pazzia, però, è riuscito a creare opere di questo calibro. I tratti del suo dissidio interiore si notano dalle pennellate secche e dure, spezzate (di certo non sono fluide e leggere) e dai vortici creati nel cielo. Dopo poco tempo dalla realizzazione di questo dipinto, Vincent si suicidò.

"le tre età della donna" Gustave Klimt. Il percorso di vita di una donna: figlia, madre, nonna o anche vecchia, donna, bambina. Come e quanto cambia il corpo (e la mente soprattutto) di un essere umano, in questo caso una donna, nell'arco di 80 anni circa, è qualcosa di straordinario.

...e in particolare nella maternità c'è un mistero incommensurabile.

"les amants", Magritte. Non sono importanti i volti, la fisionomia, ma il bacio e il sentimento. Anche con il volto coperto due amanti si riconoscono sempre, sia fra di loro che agli occhi degli altri.

"ghostly cloud", Riemerschmid. Questo quadro l'ho visto con i miei occhi al Lenbachhaus di Monaco, in realtà i colori sono più tendenti all'azzurro, comunque a me dà l'idea di una realtà in un universo parallelo. Alla fine sono delle nuvole dalle sembianze umane che si rincorrono, si cercano, si acchiappano nel cielo alla luce della luna...a me fa pensare che sono completamente isolati dal resto del mondo, nessuno si accorge di loro giù sulla terra, ma quelle creature, quelle essenze nel cielo danno vita al loro amore.

"raschiatori di parquet", Gustave Caillebotte. Questo quadro non mi conduce a riflessioni particolari, è semplicemente bellissimo tecnicamente, almeno secondo me. E' estremamente realistico da sembrare una fotografia e i dettagli sono precisissimi. D'altronde credo sia un quadro impressionista (spero di non sbagliare!) e nonostante la tecnica sia diversa dalle macchie di colore di Renoir o Monet, l'obiettivo dell'autore non è trasmettere un messaggio, ma cogliere quella "impression" di un momento e giocare con la luce e i colori.

"solitudine", Vettriano. Devo essere sincera, ho scoperto questa meraviglia solo poco fa su internet, ma me ne sono già innamorata! è semplicemente supendo.

due quadri di Rothko. Ho "conosciuto" questo artista tramite il mio prof. di filosofia estetica che, per spiegarci cosa si può definire bello o no nell'arte, ci ha portato alcune immagini delle sue opere. I suoi quadri consistono quasi tutti in strisce di colori. Davanti ad un quadro di questo tipo si potrebbero fare tante riflessioni, ma nessuna sarebbe valida. Si potrebbe dire che esprime "l'angoscia dell'uomo moderno che è rimasto senza parole a causa dei drammi dell'umanità e blablabla" ma in realtà l'autore voleva solo fare delle strisce di colore. Non si può perciò definire "bello" un quadro del genere (in realtà niente potrebbe essere definito bello in modo assoluto) ma semplicemente si può affermare se provoca in noi sensazioni di piacere o dispiacere, prenderne atto, e continuare a goderne senza porgersi altri interrogativi a cui non c'è risposta.

non so nè che titolo abbia quest'opera, ammesso che ne abbia uno, nè chi sia l'autore. Tuttavia mi piace moltissimo. A metà fra realtà e finzione.

"vestito rosso", Annachiara Zincone. Anche questo è un quadro che ho trovato su internet per caso, ma lo trovo molto erotico, sexy e affatto volgare. Una bella rappresentazione della sensualità femminile.

e infine il pezzo forte. "unbenannte komposition IV", Kandinsky. Anche questo è un quadro che ho visto al Lenbachhaus di Monaco e mi ha letteralmente folgorato. Stavo camminando nel museo e stavo osservando i quadri in modo distratto, senza soffermarmi troppo. In realtà credo che ci fosse una lunga serie di quadri che non mi piacevano e mi stavo anche annoiando. Poi ho visto "lui" :D e sono rimasta un bel po' di tempo a fissarlo, in silenzio, senza capire perchè. Che vi devo dire, mi piace un sacco. :D Eppure al museo c'erano altri quadri di Kandinsky sempre sullo stesso stile, che poi è quello tipico dell'astrattismo. Ma solo "lui" è riuscito a catturare la mia attenzione. Io dico che questo quadro mi rappresenta. Ora, vedete voi cosa pensare, ma non chiedetemi il perchè. :)

El film, que se enfoca en la fuerte y estrecha relación que existía entre los hermanos Van Gogh más que en biografiar al incomprendido Vincent Van Gogh, es el mejor que he visto hasta la fecha sobre este artista en todos los aspectos: fotografía, narrativa, cinematografía, y sobre todo, actuación.

Es justo en la actuación donde esta película me dejo impactado. No creo que pueda explicar con palabras, pero Tim Roth ha creado un personaje que me ha dejado impactado; como espectador, el personaje de Vincent me ha desesperado y hasta cierto punto lo he considerado grotesco, pero como realizador estoy ansioso porque llegue el momento en que me toque dirigir a un personaje de este tipo.

¿Para qué seguir escribiendo? El cine es mostrar.

Una actuación inolvidable en una película que se merece la denominación de "artísticamente rebelde".

*-REBELDOMETRO-*
9 de 10

Si no han disfrutado nunca de un Cine Club del Centro León, los invito al próximo: Miércoles 30 de Julio, 7:00PM. "Retrato De Una Obsesión" del realizador Steven Shainberg, cuyo título original es "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus". Proyección comentada por Jose D' Laura y Fausto Ortiz, en un homenaje a la figura de la artista Diane Arbus.

Junto con Leire Martínez, los demás integrantes de La Oreja de Van Gogh, Pablo, Xavi, Alvaro y Haritz, dieron a conocer que en septiembre próximo lanzarán su nuevo material discográfico, aún sin título.

La nueva cantante del grupo musical, quien al estrenarse en la banda entonó algunas estrofas de la canción "Jueves" del nuevo disco de La Oreja de Van Gogh, tiene una voz muy parecida a la de su antecesora Amaia Montero.

"Intento no tener miedo, pero sé que habrá comparaciones, como probablemente yo las haría", aseguró la intérprete en rueda de prensa.

Xavi San Martín, integrante de La Oreja de Van Gogh desde su fundación, aseguró que la nueva vocalista ha hecho a su medida cada uno de los temas del nuevo disco, cuyo primer sencillo será "El último vals", una historia de amor inspirada en la película de Martín Scorsese.

Este nuevo disco está producido en colaboración con Nigel Walker y cuenta con el particular toque de Bob Ludwing, conocido por sus trabajos con U2, Jimi Hendrix, Coldplay, Nirvana, entre otros grupos.

Parte de la rueda de prensa.

Vicent Willem Van Gogh (el protagonista de esta historia) fue un pintor, tal vez alguna vez han escuchado o leído de el, lo cierto es que este hombre holandés, llego a pintar 900 cuadros mientras estuvo con vida, no es mi intención relatarle la vida de este hombre, quien tuvo una vida algo peculiar y  trágica, si no contarles...

Van Gogh vivía en una casa amarilla, en Francia, tenia el sueño de hacer un sindicato de pintores,  un amigo suyo (Paul se llamaba) fue a vivir con el, pero los problemas mentales de Van Gogh no ayudaban mucho a la convivencia, un día empezaron  una gran discusión, Paul quien ya no soportaba mas a Van Gogh salio de la casa, con intención de irse definitivamente, entonces se dio media vuelta y vio a  Van Gogh con una navaja, amenazándolo, se quedaron paralizados un momento entonces ya fuera por la mirada de su amigo o por que se no se atrevía a lastimarlo Van Gogh  entro a la casa pero si piensan que Van Gogh se calmo y puso cuerdo, significan que no saben el final de esta historia, Van Gogh fue a su burdel favorito, se acerco a una chica, Rachel se llamaba la joven prostituta, y le tendió un "regalo" ¿pueden adivinar que era?, pues una pequeña muestra de amor, Van Gogh se había cortado su oreja derecha.

Esta es una pequeña anécdota de la curiosa vida de Van Gogh. Ahora el nombre del famoso grupo musical español "La oreja de Van Gogh" suena más interesante ¿no?, ¿y ustedes? ¿Cuál es la mayor muestra de amor que están dispuestos a hacer?

Firma: Jessica!

Enjoy.

Is this video controversial? Does depicting Jesus as a gay man “movin’ & groovin’” to some happy disco offend people?

I’ve written at length about how Jesus is portrayed in art because I find it interesting to learn why certain cultural and ethnic groups turn a man of quite clearly Jewish and middle eastern ancestry and “recast” him in the image of the artist. The bible says humans are created in God’s image, yet aren't we really just creating God in our image?

So what is this particular video trying to tell us? Well, first of all, it’s funny. Putting aside the “blasphemy” of taking a holy figure and making him dance along to Gloria Gaynor on the streets of L.A., we have to admit that Jesus is a malleable public figure readily available for satire. In this particular example, the video ends where the “gay” Jesus is hit by a bus. Aside from the humor, can we also read into this ending to say that because of the “blasphemy” this man is indulging in that his “death” is brought upon by a higher power? In other words, could God be driving that bus to stamp out the sin of the actor? Or is the video saying that no matter how hard the gay community tries to embrace the good aspects of Christianity, conservative society will always come along to crush (hit and run) the movement?

Very often satire is misunderstood by the people being satirized, but who exactly is being satirized in this video? Christianity? Homosexuality? Gloria Gaynor? While it’s easy for people to get worked up over the literal content of such satire, we should always be willing to dig deeper into the meanings of things. A good strong belief in something (religion, for example) should be able to withstand scrutiny and criticism and the believers should be expected to have a deep understanding of what they believe in. When people respond to such criticisms and interpretations of their beliefs, too often they respond with knee-jerk reactions because they are offended on a superficial level. When people burn the American flag, pick up feces with the pages of the bible or dress up as a quasi-drag Jesus, the common reaction is to kill the messenger but little thought is put into the message itself. To clarify, we like to kill a spider when we see it in our home but when we do that we forget the spider may be there to hunt and kill other “disgusting” insects.

Since I do not know the true intentions of the filmmaker, all I can do is place the video within my own context. Had I known where the video came from and knew a little about the artist, I might have a slightly different interpretation of the “intended” message. But good art does not require context, it only requires a) the art and b) an audience - all other considerations are secondary because once the art has been created by the artist, the artist looses control of the art.

Van Gogh is no longer alive to tell us what he “intended” by painting “Still Life with Absinthe” in 1887 so we can only look at the painting and make our own conclusions. Of course, we do know a little about Van Gogh’s life. We know he liked to drink absinthe and we know he suffered from mental sickness so we might be able to conclude he just wanted to paint one of his favorite subjects and wanted to immortalize his vice. But we can only infer that interpretation from outside facts not included in the painting so all we really have is just a study on a bottle of booze in a cafe. We have to put our own meaning into the painting and anything Van Gogh intended is beside the point. In a way, the art becomes the intellectual property of the audience.

Art also says more about the audience than it does about the artist and our reaction to art is sometimes more interesting than the art itself anyway. Remember when you were in high school and somebody said they thought you liked some girl or boy but you denied it up one side and down the other? You may have been “saying” you didn’t like Suzy or Joe but your overreaction to the question made it quite clear you really did like Suzy or Joe. Art, then, works very much the same way. Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography created controversy because many people did not feel his art was appropriate - either because he was funded by a federal program (National Endowment for the Arts) or because his art “can be viewed as fetishizing black men”. While his photographs are “shocking”, the outcry over them is far more interesting because it speaks about the values of the society upset by them.

So does this mean that everything controversial is art? I believe it does not, but we should always be willing to to give someones self expression at least a moments worth of consideration.

Sans paroles, Ohne Worte

In artistic terms this wood is the equivalent of Monet's gardens at Giverny or Arles for van Gogh and Gaugin.

The Totoro Forest Project is the brainchild of Enrico Casarosa and Dice Tsutsumi and has not surprisingly received the enthusiastic support of Pixar.

I quote from Animation Magazine:

Artists from around the world were asked to come up with artwork inspired by the gentle creature depicted in the landmark movie. Over 200 original pieces from internationally acclaimed artists and animators—William Joyce, Andreas Deja, Timothy Lamb, Ronnie del Carmen, Ralph Eggleston, Pete Docter and Peter de Seve, to name a few—are featured in this one-of-a-kind event which tries to answer the question “What is your Totoro?” The auction will be held at Pixar Animation Studio on September 6th. A companion art book, edited by Karen Paik (The Story of Pixar), will also be available at the event. Selected artwork from the Totoro auction will be featured as two special exhibitions at The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco (Exhibit A: Sept. 26-Dec. 7; Exhibit B: Nov. 6-Feb. 20).

The website is truly awesome: Totoro Forest Project.

Now to figure out how to get to San Francisco.

At last, I have published a page detailing my adventures and misadventures in Paris. For four days, I was lost in Paris' narrow, twisty streets lined with tall, stone buildings. Yet, I managed to stumble upon the sights I planned to visit and many more. Paris, for me, was about the journey of place and time, which allowed me to dabble in the art, architecture and culture of France. 

The full account is here: http://winentrip.wordpress.com/perdu-lost-in-paris/. Or, you can just click on "Perdu (lost) in Paris" under Pages, to the left.

I have posted my pictures in a set entitled, "France," on Flickr. This is the link: www.flickr.com/photos/bspicher.

O absinto é conhecido também como Fada Verde, devido a supostas alucinações de apreciadores que alegam terem visto seres "místicos". Não duvido deles, já que a bebida chegava a conter quase 90% de graduação alcoólica. Além disso, a "losna" (Arthemisia Absinthium), erva utilizada na preparação da bebida, contém substâncias alucinógenas. Creio que, nessas circunstâncias, uma fada verde é a coisa mais normal de se ver.

Eu, que nunca havia experimentado, fiquei tentada. Pensei um pouco,  criei coragem... Tomei o primeiro gole bem devagar. Confesso que me deu um pouco de medo, por já ter ouvido algumas histórias sobre a bebida, que inclusive já havia sido proibida por levar seus apreciadores à loucura e causar a morte de alguns deles. Li em algum lugar que atribuíram ao absinto a culpa pelo comportamento "esquisito" de Van Gogh.

Enfim, acabei bebendo mesmo, afinal há quem diga que eu já tenho um comportamento esquisito mesmo, não é verdade? 

No Brasil a comercialização de absinto foi legalizada, mas com uma graduação alcoólica bem inferior e também não contém losna (ok, perdeu metade da graça...) Então... Bebi mesmo, e gostei, ela tem um ótimo sabor, que disfarça seus 53% de álcool. Isso mesmo! Uma paulada de álcool puro! Maravilha!  Se for experimentar, não se assuste ao notar nas paredes um fantástico aspecto esverdeado, composto com pinceladas expressionistas... (Ai meu Deus, será que foi encosto do Van Gogh?)

Quanto à Fada, não posso afirmar com certeza se a vi. O que vi foram belos olhos, e sim, eram verdes. De vários tons de verde. Talvez a fada estivesse ali, dentro daqueles olhos. Ou talvez fosse muito álcool nas minhas idéias mesmo... É... Talvez seja o álcool... Preciso parar com isso.

Lorena Lins

Saturday.
Stop Varenne for Rodin museum.
See admission charge, then explore the Latin Quarter and Luxembourg garden park.

The huge hands and feet of the first Rodin sculpture group of figures I come to.
They have magnifying glass telescopes set up so you can better see the small detail of one that looks like a doorway, and looking at the title is La Porte de L’Enfer.
I am already excited that I know nothing of Rodin except the name a slight familiarity.
Ariane is beautifully nice, haunting and even confusing at first glance.
Watched a baby in a stroller eyes flickering from one marble statue to the next. The feet of the dark outdoor sculptures so large.
Small girls make French duck noises.
I want to punch a kid who just put his cigarette out at the feet of D’Andres’ draped figure. Give us both an inordinate memory of this sculpture garden.

You get all the angles that books never provide you. I sit on a bench and look at his famous thinker in front of me. Conical evergreens on either side of bench. MCMVI. The “d” in his signature looks especially nice. The muscles of the right leg quickly remind me of H.R. Geiger, the feet are a bulbous knobby, the flap of hair on left side of his head is strange. But the impression is magnificent.
The feeling of it.
Meaning of it?
Meaning of it to me.

Francesca of Paulo and Francesca dans les Nuages is beautiful. The fish woman is erotic.
A photo of Rodin shows a man with a stomach and large hands large beard.
The way La Danaide comes out of the marble.
A great painting by Van Gogh I’ve never seen before Le Pere Tanguy.
He also owned ancient Egyptian and Greek and a couple Japanese sculptures. A Van Gogh wheat painting, a dark Monet water 1886.
Le Sculpteur et sa Muse – look up. It is edifying.
I love L’Homme et sa Pensee and if you look close at the right angle you can see the slight part of her parts underneath. The man is bearded the woman’s face young.
My imagination is running wild in this place of smooth lines, in these recreations waiting for life to breath into them. Breath that runs from my eyes to the mass of gray yogurt holding who I am. Breath that works, even if nobody is brave enough to acknowledge it.

Upon seeing second photo his hands are not so large.
An Edward Munch of the thinker.
The poetic pinch of the breast in Fugit Amor, thumb on the underside.
A very cool portrait of him by Sinet.
Le Sommeil beautiful.
He had a Rembrandt copy of the woman washing feet.
A blonde girl of maybe seven with pigtails stares at Le Baiser for a couple minutes, transfixed, and I wonder what she’s thinking.
The girl in the sculpture has her hand in light relief, curling just under her back ear.
The man kissing eternal idol – L’Eternelle Idole. I want you like this.
We can embrace and feel it while held in the Main de Dieu.

The young girl with roses in hat’s little buck and parted teeth.
The odd way they look in profile.

As I sit at the gates of hell your perfume eludes me. The kiss of soft curve memory tries wooden planks out into my middle back. A rosary of misery calling to be prayed over. Will the subtle felt of your skin ever be teased by my lips?
Sew pattern of reluctance into consuming victory of spirit.
The maddening crunch of loose
gravel half embedded in clayed mud.
The whisper.
The laugh throaty in moment feeling like the whine of an old automatic camera rewinding.
Turn soft light pink folds turquoise in sunrise - remove the make-up of previous personality persona to dance move walk fully in what is inside. Birdsong twitter running of green pattern,
spider web of pantyhose a pinstripe citrus line from toes to thigh
to breast nipple
collar bone
neck
lip nose
right eye forehead.
A yawn and grin afterwards. A letting in.
A shadow rolled in dirt maple covered hard to part.
The two escaping from marble.
Standing at the gates of hell others get their picture taken – sitting at/before the gates of hell I think of the curve of your stomach and long to wrap my thus around you.

In the café in Rodin’s garden I drink a Cotes de Provence Rose 3E90. With so much walking this trip and sun and fresh air I just cannot escape from rose during the day. This one is very good. I am very much contemplating taking my little bottle away from the café and sitting down somewhere else…I decide not to. I want to explore where he made the works – it feels inside here somewhere. Is it where the museum now is? In the back building…or did it stretch the property underground. Surely there are kilns down there. I have the strong desire to read his biography. The marble figures are the best I have ever seen.
You will hardly ever smile at a stranger in this country – is it you or them?
I am very conscious of playing with my beard or resting the end of my pen on chin in this place - considering the sculpture yards away is what it is. I am smiling inside the whole time, some moments of unrecognized breathless awe.
Moments of wonder. Moments of lust. Moments of ache.

“A man bummed a cigarette from me, he had a beard and a strange haircut – the back half was long unruly and tangled, the whole left side shaved clean. He was wearing a black hoodie and a slate scarve. One of those prints I’ve been seeing everywhere. His jeans were tattered at the bottom. He was wearing gray and turquoise Pumas with hints of yellow. His hands were tattooed. He said thank you in shaky English.” The man who thought this is wearing a green shirt.
Then I left the museum.
Then I thought of writing more prose at the museum.
Then I sat still at the museum.
I sat and re-read some things. The second time I look at the Thinker dark gray clouds brood behind him.
I do not go to the Camille Claudel exhibit.
I don’t go because I am almost too full.

A more apt name for the memorable 2006 documentary clumsily titled "Kurt Cobain, About a Son" would have been "In the head of Kurt Cobain." This brilliant documentary is narrated by Cobain himself, taken from over 25 hours of journalist MIchael Azerrad's audiotaped interviews.

Fourteen years after his demise, enough time has elapsed to safely say he was the most gifted rock star of his (and my) generation. Like Vincent Van Gogh, Cobain drew upon a wide range of emotions including joy, melancholia and anger as a source of inspiration and insight. And like Van Gogh, I hope Cobain will be remembered much more for his art expressed with intense feeling rather than his suicide.

If the alien pods in the 1956 cult classic horror film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, are a metaphor for conformity to society, then the non-conformist Cobain stood out as the iconic holdout against them. I wish more of us were as bold.

Cobain's short life should remind us conscious living is not just about peace and love. It's also about being disgusted with corruption, exploitation, and conformity to the point of eradication of individuality.

"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."-- Kurt Cobain

Primeiro as (possíveis) conclusões.

O talento mágico, aquele com o qual uma pessoa é tocada no momento que chega a esse mundo (ou a caminho) não ekziste - assim diria Padre Quevedo - pelos menos no mundo da arte.

Algumas pessoas já haviam me dito mas eu sempre acreditei que alguém pudesse ter sido tocado magicamente. Eu pensava que talvez Van Gogh fosse um desses - um pirado que na sua loucura além de cortar partes do corpo pintava e sentia as cores como nenhum outro, talento fruto da loucura ou concedida a ele sem que precisasse fazer qualquer esforço. Até o dia que me deparei com o livro Cartas a Théo de Vincent Van Gogh. Um compilado de cartas trocadas entre Vincent e Théo, seu irmão, até o dia de seu trágico fim.

A segunda conclusão, talvez uma verdade (mas não absoluta), é que alguém só é realmente bom naquilo que faz se estudar o assunto a fundo. No caso das artes e do design, não somente esse assunto, mas tudo que o cerca; afinal são dos estímulos externos que artistas e designers extraem inspiração para criar - aqui a primeira coincidência!

Nós designers e Van Gogh o artista louco - coincidências e comparações.

Muitos não sabem, eu não sabia, que Van Gogh era um estudioso: literatura, história da arte, técnicas e arte contemporânea eram seu grande interesse, era aliás, seu único interesse logo que decidiu ser pintor, o que demorou bastante, ele tinha quase 30 anos de idade.

Nós, artistas ou designers, além dos interesses em comum com os de Vincent temos ainda que estar atentos a tudo que acontece no mundo do design e arte (que não é pouco) da música, televisão (por mais terrível que possa ser), internet, jornais, revistas, tecnologia, comunicação, moda, comportamento... tudo a uma velocidade que deixaria Vang Gogh tão louco a ponto de cortar também as mãos, pés, língua e furar os olhos. Viver na loucura hoje, diferente do tempo de Van Gogh, nem é tão louco assim.

Para registrar (e inspirar): Van Gogh gostava de Shakespeare, lia Balzac, Vitor Hugo e livros técnicos, biografias de artistas, admirava os franceses Corot e Delacroix e tantos pintores da história como seus contemporâneos, visitava museus e galerias e era um grande observador, fato que o tornava crítico e possuidor de apurado senso estético. Ele era principalmente um estudioso da cor: das técnicas, da cor física, da cor científica, como a Teoria das Sete Cores de Newton. Van Gogh porém tinha suas próprias teorias que concluía através do estudo constante da aplicação das cores, ele chegava até mesmo a discordar de Newton:

"...Newton chamou de primitivas: o violeta, o índigo, o azul, o verde, o amarelo, o laranja e o vermelho; mas é claro que o termo primitivas não pode convir a três destas cores, que são compostas, pois o laranja se faz com vermelho e o amarelo, o verde com o amarelo e o azul, o violeta com o azul e vermelho (...) é preciso portanto, reconhecer, com os antigos, que na natureza há apenas três cores verdadeiramente elementares, as quais misturando-se duas a duas engendram três outras cores compostas ditas binárias: o laranja, o verde e o violeta."

Van Gogh assim como nós designers, buscava inovar em seu trabalho, foi por esse motivo como sabemos, que ele teve - apesar da demora de 100 anos - todo reconhecimento merecido como um grande artista. Para ele, assim como para nós, não era nada fácil. Naquela época como agora a maioria das pessoas gostavam de seguir clichês poucos eram os que tinham coragem de inovar, ir contra a corrente; sabe aquele chefe ou cliente que pede para que você faça algo parecido com o que fulano fez? Você tem clientes ou chefe, Van Gogh tinha os marchands, que pediam que fizesse quadros parecidos com os dos pintores de sucesso na época ou pintasse temas diferentes dos que ele fazia.

A grande dica talvez seja que nós devêssemos, assim como Van Gogh o fez, observar tudo que já existe e já foi feito (pois tudo já foi criado e inovação é bem diferente de invenção) em busca de algo que possa ser recriado com características e peculiaridades diferentes das existentes, é identificar algo que ninguém antes percebeu, é aquele olhar que é só seu, é reinventar, é atribuir um novo valor ao que já existe — inovar. Essa busca pela inovação é a grande coincidência entre ser designer e ser Van Gogh.

Renoir
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?dxoz9wz2mty

Van Gogh
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?31uyhzyyb0z

1420-1610 Renaissance

• renaissance means "rebirth" in French
• themes include closeness to nature, and beauty of the human nature

1600-1740 Baroque

• baroque was possibly derived from a Portuguese term used to describe erratic shape, and until the late 19th century it was mainly used as a synonym for 'absurd'
• themes include grandeur, drama, vitality, tension, pathos, emotional exuberance

1700-1770 18th Century: Rococo

• rococo means 'stone' in French
• themes include playfulness, aristocrats, leisure, mythological narratives

1750-1800 18th Century: Neoclassicism

• neoclassicism was related to the political circumstances in France
• themes include historical events, religious and mythological subjects

1600-1890 18th Century: Japanese Prints

• theme includes ukiyo-e

1780-1850 Romanticism

• themes include strong emotions, such as trepidation, horror, awe

1850-1900 Realism and Naturalism

• theme includes everyday life without embellishment or interpretation, realistic objects in a natural setting

1860-1900 Impressionism

• impressionism is derived from the title of Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise
• themes include ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles

1860-1900 Post-Impressionism

• themes include continuation of Impressionism, individual and subjective expression

1850-1900 Symbolism

• themes include spirituality, imagination, dreams

1880-1920 Art Nouveau

• art nouveau means 'new art' in French
• themes include organic, floral and other plant-inspired motifs, highly-stylized, flowing curvilinear forms

1898-1908 Fauvism

• fauvism mean 'wild beasts' in French
• themes include wild brush work and strident colors, simplification and abstraction

1905-1940 Expressionism

• themes include expression of strong emotion, liberating colors, simplifying forms

1908-1920 Cubism

• themes include abstracted, broken up, analyzed, and reassembled, multitude of viewpoints, random angles, shallow ambiguous space

1930-1940 Nouveau Réalisme

• nouveau réalisme means 'new realism' in French
• themes include bringing life and art closer together, collective singularity

1924-1950 Surrealism

• themes include surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non-sequitur

1945 - Abstract Expressionism

• themes include spontaneity, unconsciousness and the mind

1950 - Pop Art

• themes include popular mass culture, paintwork and representational art

1960 - Op Art

• themes include optical illusion, movement, hidden images, flashing and vibration, patterns

many more ...