El poblet de Santa Cruz de la Serós, prop de Jaca, a mig camí del monestir de San Juan de la Peña, poseeix una de les més boniques esglèsies romàniques de tot l'Aragó. La seva puresa de línies impacta el viatger. És una visita obligada si esteu en ruta per Jaca i el Pirineu aragonés. També si aneu a veure el monestir de la Peña. De fet el tiquet es ven conjuntament amb tot el paquet turístic. No us perdeu aquesta maravellosa joia!. Podeu dormir a San Juan o a Jaca. Nosaltres varem dinar al self-service de la Peña.

El pueblo de Santa Cruz de la Serós, cerca de Jaca, a medio camino del monasterio de San Juan de la Peña, posee una de las más bellas iglesias románicas de todo Aragón. Su pureza de líneas impacta al viajero. Es una visita obligada si se está en ruta por Jaca y el Pirineo aragonés. También si vais a ver el monasterio de la Peña. De hecho el ticket se vende conjuntamente con todo el paquete turístico. ¡No os perdáis esta maravillosa joya!. Puede dormir en San Juan o en Jaca. Nosotros comimos en el self-service de la Peña.

The village of Santa Cruz, near Jaca and the monastery of San Juan de la Peña, has one of the most beautiful Romanesque churches in Aragon. If you go to see the monastery of la Peña, buy the ticket together with the whole package holidays. Do not miss this wonderful gem!. You can sleep in San Juan or in Jaca. We had lunch at the la Peña self-service.

Le village de Santa Cruz, près de Jaca et du monastère de San Juan de la Peña, possède l'une des plus belles églises romanes de l'Aragon. La pureté des lignes frappe le voyageur. Si vous allez voir le monastère de la Peña achetez  le billet qui est vendu avec le forfait. ¡Ne manquez pas cette magnifique bijou!. Vous pouvez dormir à San Juan ou à Jaca. Nous avons mangé au self-service de la Peña.

кроме того, работы автора можно посмотреть ещё на zonezero.com

"Universal Limited Art Editions was born out of one woman's necessity to make a living and driven by her desire to make a contribution to the world."

ULAE showcases an amazing gallery of prints. I was especially impressed by the works of Robert Goodnough.

Image: Robert Goodnough - The Chief III.
Copyright © 2008 Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc.

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Le maire de Genève Manuel Tornare a inauguré les premières Journées de la science de Beyrouth, au Liban. La manifestation propose notamment une exposition, fruit de la collaboration entre les deux villes.

"Nous sommes convaincus que par la culture, l'ouverture et la vulgarisation scientifique, nos deux villes pourront mettre en commun, au-delà de leurs caractéristiques pluriculturelles et pluriconfessionnelles souvent citées, une même soif de savoir et de partage des connaissances", a dit M. Tornare lors de la cérémonie d'inauguration vendredi soir à l'hippodrome de Beyrouth.

Le maire de Genève a souligné l'importance de la communauté libanaise à Genève et les relations spéciales qui unissent les deux villes. Ces premières Journées de la science ont ainsi vu le jour à l'initiative de l'homme d'affaires libanais vivant au bout du lac, Malek el Khoury.

La ville de Genève, où se déroulent avec succès depuis huit ans les Nuits de la science, soutient l'exposition de Beyrouth à hauteur de 50'000 francs. Deux projets issus de la cité de Calvin y sont aussi à voir. Pour le futur, le maire de Genève s'engage à renforcer la collaboration entre les deux cités, notamment dans le cadre de l'Association des villes francophones.

Camille discovered her passion for sculpture when she was very young. Born in December 1864, in Fère-en-Tardenois, France, Camille grew up in a family of humble condition. Fascinated with stone and soil since her childhood, the sister of French writer Paul Claudel (1868-1955) soon understood the power of creation and found support from her father who introduced her to sculptor Alfred Boucher (1850-1934) when she was a young teenager. Boucher immediately saw the talent of Camille and recommended that she move to Paris to look for more opportunities and develop a career. Very supportive, Camille's father soon decided to take the entire family to Paris, in 1881. Camille worked under the aegis of Boucher until he departed for Italy in 1883, and was trusted to Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). She soon became not only his assistant but also his muse and lover.

The two artists inspired each other and Camille studied the nude figure thanks to Rodin, a rare opportunity for a woman of that time period. Their passionate and tormented relatioship ended in 1893, while Rodin's work was celebrated and Camille ignored. In an attempt to establish her own reputation, Camille secluded herself to work intensely, but her efforts remained vain; poor, rejected, her work censored, Camille's genius was never fully acknowledged, thus resulting in the decline of her career and mental state. Isolated and paranoid, Camille was committed to an asylum in 1913, at Ville-Evrard, and transferred one year later to an asylum in Montdevergues (near Avignon), where she remained until her death in October 1943.

While Camille destroyed a lot of her work shortly before her transfer to the asylum, the artistic legacy she left proves her genius. Camille reveals a profound understanding of anatomical features, using mainly plaster, marble, bronze and even onyx. Her work shows elegance and mastery, and becomes particularly original at the turn of the 20th century, with the influence of Japanism and Art Nouveau.

Camille's most famous works include Sakountala (1888), La Valse (1892), L'Age Mûr (1895), Les Causeuses (1897) and La Vague (1902).

While her excessive, almost unstable personality may explain her mental decline to a certain extent, several other factors contributed to Camille's tragic fate.

First of all, Camille's work was never really recognized and too many people only saw her as "Rodin's lover." Camille sold very little of her work when she was alive, and while Rodin helped her financially, she spent her last few years of freedom in poverty. The art establishment and potential patrons rejected her, simply because she was a woman, and even worse - an unmarried woman of humble condition who was Rodin's mistress.

Insulted as a person, Camille was also insulted as an artist. Many accused her of copying Rodin's style while we know, today, that both artists inspired each other and that Camille did have a personal, unique touch.

During her entire life, Camille felt profoundly rejected by the people she loved and society. While she found support from her father and her brother Paul, Camille was rejected by her own mother who only saw her as an useless, debauched young woman. Yet, Camille's greatest disillusion came from the man she loved her entire life: Auguste Rodin.

While we know that Camille was French composer Claude Debussy's partner for a while, the undeniable love of her life remained Rodin. When their love affair started, Camille was barely twenty years old, and Rodin was already in his fourties and married to a woman named Rose Beuret. As passionate and intense as their relationship was, Camille never succeeded in convincing Rodin to divorce from Rose and marry her. Rodin regularly abandoned Camille by herself to return to Rose, and the most touching symbol of Camille's grief is her sculpture L'Age Mûr, which represents Camille, naked, begging Rodin to stay with her while he walks away, wrapped in the arms of an old lady with vulture-like features - Rose. This scene, which really took place, summarizes the climate of their relationship and the tragedy lived by Camille who could never supplant Rose.

Even more than being simply jeered as a lover, Camille felt jeered as a woman as well. While one can't doubt Rodin's passionate feelings for Camille, we can still question the quality and nature of his love. Indeed, from the very beginning, Rodin seemed to see in Camille the perfect muse - she inspired many of his sculptures - and the source of his creativity. Rodin fell in love not only with Camille's ingenuous, excessive personality, but also - and maybe above all - with the curves and details of her body, not out of a simple physical attraction, but for their artistic, creative power and value that spoke to the sculptor. In the end, one could wonder if Rodin only saw in Camille a "living statue," a perfect model and a source of infinite inspiration and fascination - thus neglecting the woman.

This impression is reinforced by the fact that Camille felt profoundly frustrated by Rodin's refusal to give her a child. After getting pregnant accidentally, Camille had a miscarriage that deeply upset her, while Rodin remained indifferent and seemed primarily worried about getting Camille pregnant anew.

Jealous of Rose, abandoned by Rodin, rejected, lonely and poor, Camille Claudel soon became more and more tormented and paranoid, especially when Rodin became successful and his work praised by the critics and the art establishment. Today, Camille still doesn't have her own museum and most of her works are kept in one of the rooms of the Musée Rodin in Paris.

As one of the rare female sculptors of that time period, Camille Claudel needs to be recognized for her own work, her innovative vision and the power of her sculptures. While keeping her work in context, it is important to view her own personal genius as detached from Rodin's as possible, to only remember the originality and achievement of an artist who lived passionately and whose creation needs to be finally honoured.

Visited the art exhibition at Suntec today after a hearty dinner at Tony Roma's.

There were art pieces from 16 countries

(China, Indonesia, Korea, India, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Taiwan etc.)

depicting various themes.

They ranged from

traditional chinese peasants, soldiers and children to pyschedelic retro pop art.

It would be a dream to own some of these pieces as they are mostly priced from five grand.

Anyway, back to the chopping board have a great Sunday everyone. I am off to draw.

#1: Yay, Inge took us to IKEA :)

We bought a green table and bedsheets and yay. The whole thought of coming to IKEA was gained from the day before when we had dinner at Inge's place, it was great, thanks :), and after we had Tiramisù which was amazingly good, but also way too much to have after dinner..

Anyway, uhm here are the new acquisitions:

#2: We went to see the Picasso exhibition at the Museum Vittoriano or something quite similar.

Now I have never much cared for Picasso, but I am open to new experiences... somewhat..
The thing is though.. Abstract is not my thing, unless it has some esthetic value to me and then I really don't want to know what it was meant to be. A will list a few things I derived from this exhibition:

- I really don't like Picasso.
- I now realise why bestiality is so wrong.
- Picasso had a weird, weird view of women.
- ...and of Minotaurs...

So yes, to comment on the women thing:

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Anyway..yes well that was it..

graphite on paper

july 2008

The stone path through the arch leads to autumn in the civil war graveyard at the Old City Cemetery and Arboretum in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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Logo-ul vechi:

Un mic logo wannabe (folosit drept avatar pe un forum)

Si, in sfarsit, noul logo (pe care puteti sa il purtati daca mergeti pe www.cafepress.com/skidesigns...gata cu promovarea)

A, si apropo...astia car va dati cu parerea: SkiDesignS nu se citeste ScaiDizains si nici Schi-Dizains, ci Schid-dizains. Sa stiti voi, ba!

Si inca una, bonus (sper sa apuc sa o pun si pe asta pe un tricou):

Amazingly creative artist Jacqueline Rush Lee has chosen to show us exactly how our books have taken a toll on our trees.  It took years for these trees to grow large enough for us to chop them down and make them into paper, and Lee makes us think with these inventive book sculptures.

You can see more of her work on her website here.

acrylic on paper

august 2008

If you've seen much of my work you'll know that.

Some photographers shoot eyes so that they can manipulate the images and put out of context images into the irises or who knows what -- but I just happen to love the expressiveness and personality that shines out from the inner person.

Korrie here has great eyes.

She's a tease and a flirt and she's serious and mature and sophisticated. With a look she speaks volumes and with a look she breaks hearts.

If you're planning a photoshoot with me, please arrive without having done much with your eyes in anticipation of what you think I'm going to want to see, or shoot. It's easy to add makeup, but sometimes less is more. When I'm creating images I try hard to capture something about the subject/model that speaks to who they are and not how good of a photographer I am.

I've seen all kinds of celebrity portraits that dont seem to show the unique person -- they seem more a commentary on the personality of the photographer -- which is all right if what you want is proof that you have been shot by a certain photographer.

Most of my clients on the other hand want to look like themselves --

Sona Nambiar on Sunday, October 12, 2008

The concept design of the new Museum of Middle East Modern Art is now getting into the detailed design phase, according to Injaz.

"The project is on the fast track for completion but no official dates have been announced," said Rashid Al Awadhi, Director, Injaz.

The project mandate came from His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, who wanted a regional hub for art, he said. "Due to the major developments in region, there is an increasing need to promote art, especially, Middle Eastern Modern art," said Al Awadhi. "Dubai is now emerging as a regional capital for the Middle East and we needed to create that space to cater to this specific kind of art. Mohammed Gergawi, UAE Cabinet Affairs Minister, gave us the brief that this building must be located within the Cultural Village project on the banks of Khor Dubai (Dubai Creek), which is a very traditional project."

Yet the design is very modern. "The intention was to create a deliberate contrast. This project reflects the development of Dubai and how we have developed from tradition to modernity. This theme is also being reflected in our developments – modern contemporary architecture beside the traditional, which will create a style by itself that is unique to Dubai. Hence, we have chosen UN Studio to interpret that vision," said Ahmed Bukhash, Principal Architect, Property Development with Injaz.

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This photo is just so Edinburgh... The City Art Centre has to be one of my favourite places in Edinburgh, it always has at least one interesting exhibition running at any given time.