DAzulterrA: 16/02/14

sábado, 22 de fevereiro de 2014

NA HERDADE DA MATINHA

A Atmosfera na HERDADE DA MATINHA, Alentejo, Portugal

as simple as life is

sexta-feira, 21 de fevereiro de 2014

SUSAN SONTAG

LITERATURE WAS THE PASSPORT

to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom

Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933, grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and attended high school in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from the College of the University of Chicago and did graduate work in philosophy, literature, and theology at Harvard University and Saint Anne’s College, Oxford.

Her books, all published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, include four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America; a collection of short stories, I, etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bedand Lady from the Sea; and nine works of nonfiction, starting with Against

Interpretation and including On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, Where the Stress Falls, Regarding the Pain of Others, and At the Same Time. In 1982, FSG published A Susan Sontag Reader.

Among Ms. Sontag's many honors are the 2003 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the 2003 Prince of Asturias Prize, the 2001 Jerusalem Prize, the National Book Award for In America(2000), and the National Book Critics Circle Award for On Photography(1978).

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Her stories and essays appeared in newspapers, magazines, and literary publications all over the world, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Art in America, Antaeus, Parnassus, The Threepenny Review, The Nation, and Granta. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages.

quinta-feira, 20 de fevereiro de 2014

AESOP

The Atmosphere in AESOP´S Hollywood Street retailer

Australian skincare company Aesop has opened a new signature store in Hong Kong that features shelving made from blackened steel, plus sinks made of oak and copper.

quarta-feira, 19 de fevereiro de 2014

GEORGIA O`KEEFFE IN ABIQUIU

The Atmosphere in artist GEORGIA O`KEEFFE, Abiquiu, New Mexico home and studio

"The days you work are the best days."

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) bought her house in Abiquiu in 1945, which is now owned by the Museum

"To me it is the best place in the world, and I cannot imagine a more wonderful place. It has always been secluded and solitary. When I first went there, it was only one house with one room—which had a ghost living in it, so everyone was afraid to come."

"Georgia O’Keeffe first came to Abiquiu when she was spending the summer near Alcade, New Mexico, where there were some beautiful sand hills to paint. O’Keeffe remembers looking in particular at one house that was high up, isolated from the town on a peninsula, wedged between two gullies. It was empty, and there was a wall in bad repair where a tree had fallen."

“However, when I took my pots and pans and moved them to Abiquiu, I knew that was now my home, even though I continue to return to Ghost Ranch each summer to paint, or whenever I can find an excuse to get there. When you start making a home, it is difficult to stop changing it, imagining it different. If I thought of building a house from scratch today, I would make it so simple that it would make most houses look like some kind of Chinese puzzle.”

"Interior furnishings do not follow a particular style. Simple unpainted wooden beds were built especially, but other furniture represents years of collecting. With the exception of O’Keeffe’s work, there is little art. Among the art, however, is a Calder mobile over the living room fireplace and a Juan Hamilton sculpture."

"O’Keeffe returned to Ghost Ranch in the summers, when construction made it impossible for her to work and live at Abiquiu. Ghost Ranch, which lies north of Abiquiu, is a secluded place dominated by a rocky mountain range that towers dramatically above it. This dry rocky landscape is completely different from the flat verdant Chama Valley that Abiquiu overlooks. O’Keeffe has lived and worked at Ghost Ranch since 1934, and she spent summers there with Stieglitz when she was living in New York. "

"Surmounted only by beams, the Roofless Room provides an unassuming backdrop for O’Keeffe’s cast-epoxy sculpture, Abstraction, 1945."

"A recurring image in the artist’s oeuvre appears inWhite Patio with Red Door, 1960, in the sitting room; the painting was inspired by a wall with a large double-door, in the patio. The raku sculpture is by Juan Hamilton, whose work in clay once inspired O’Keeffe to try her own hand at this medium."

“I haven’t anything you can get along without,” says the artist, explaining the austerity of her small bedroom, which was formerly a shed for two wagons. “This is my corner; you can’t have much less than this.” The rebuilt fireplace wards off the winter cold. Nearby, the hand from a Buddha statue is raised in abhaya mudra."

"The view from the studio—once a windowless space that sheltered cattle—is echoed in the spare grandeur of the artist’s paintings. Dark ceramic forms are by Hamilton."

"Dedicated to making every space aesthetically satisfying, the artist adorned an adobe bench in the sitting room with natural forms, including a rattlesnake skeleton recessed under glass."

"The Indian Room took its name from the narrow adobe ledges that early Indian inhabitants used as beds. Having faithfully restored the wooden ceiling and adobe walls, O’Keeffe recognized that “building in adobe is like a disease. Once you start using it, you can’t really ever stop.” A Pueblo Indian pot glows in this context."