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Give Birth To Your Images

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by Viktoria Vidali on September 12, 2011

in Art,General,Monthly Post,Poetry

You must give birth
to your images.

They are the future
waiting to be born.
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Tempio di Minerva

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by Viktoria Vidali on April 25, 2011

in Art,General,Weekly Image

Built in the late Republican period in the 1st century BC, this temple was erected by the quatorvirates Gneus Cesius and Titus Cesius Priscus. Once thought to have been dedicated to Minerva, when a votive plaque to Hercules was later discovered, it is now believed that the temple was dedicated to him.
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I Just Live

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by Federico Fellini on February 14, 2011

in Art,General,Weekly Image

All I want to do when I finish a picture is to fly away. I like life. I am bored by the intellectuals, or these people who call themselves intellectuals. They try to give an exact name to everything. ‘A good woman.’ A bad woman.’ And they are not real intellectuals. In the original meaning of the word, an intellectual was someone who had intellect.
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One With The Other

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by Jane Benson on October 25, 2010

in Art,General,Guest Writers,Poetry,Weekly Post

After decades of living and painting in or near Paris, Renoir settled permanently in Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1907 at age 67 where he spent the last 11 years of his life. The mild Mediterranean climate, the colorful landscape and the luminous light inspired perhaps his greatest work.
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The Value Of Art

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by Viktoria Vidali on July 26, 2010

in Art,General,Weekly Post

Love’s Labor’s Lost, one of three plays performed as part of Shakespeare Santa Cruz 2010 ~ now in its 29th season ~ opened July 21 in the Festival Glen, a natural amphitheater in the redwoods of University of California, Santa Cruz.
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The Key To Understanding

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by Viktoria Vidali on November 1, 2009

in Art,General,Weekly Image

Near the Rodin Sculpture Garden on the Stanford Campus in Palo Alto, California, environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy and eight skilled dry-stone wallers from England and Scotland worked steadily for three weeks in 2001 to construct Stone River. For this sculpture, Goldsworthy and his team chose sandstone salvaged from university buildings destroyed in the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes – an original and creative way to reuse local materials.
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Hakone Gardens

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by Viktoria Vidali on October 25, 2009

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It is from Japan’s Hakone National Park, situated southwest of Tokyo amid the volcanic mountains and verdant forests of Mt. Fuji’s Five Lakes region, that California’s Hakone Gardens takes its name. Overlooking the Valley of the Heart’s Delight (now known as Silicon Valley), Hakone offers not only a global heritage forum for art and culture, it provides each guest a healing sanctuary from the stress of modern life.
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Transformative Art

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by Viktoria Vidali on June 27, 2009

in Art,General

Images whose color and form change and refresh our state of being are images that renew.  They possess a magical, transformative power. Interior designers and artists have long recognized how profoundly color and form impact our psychological and physiological states.
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