MAGRITTE & CLOUDS

La Malédiction (1936) 

RENÉ MAGRITTE

The Surrealist Painter

Clear Ideas ( 1958)

The False Mirror ( 1928)

Le beau monde (1962)

The Victory (1939)

Donna con nuvole

After the water, the clouds (1926)

René Magritte, 1963 by Bill Brandt

photos via DazulterraPinterest

SONIA DELAUNAY

SONIA DELAUNAY

Russian- born  French artist 

Painter, Textile Designer and Stage Set Designer

Cofounded the Orphism art movement

Use of strong colours and geometric shapes

Sketchbook

working & living

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During the 1930s, Sonia Delaunay’s life was divided between fashion design, articles in magazines, interior decorating, and projects for window displays and posters. In 1937, the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne, backed by Léon Blum’s (1872–1950) Popular Front government, solicited the participation of the Delaunays in the decoration of two temporary exhibition buildings: the Pavillon des Chemins de Fer and the Palais de l’Air. Voyages lointains and Portugal, which Sonia painted for the railroad pavilion, were awarded a gold medal....Read more

models in Sonia Delaunay beachwear. 1930´s

CÉSAR MANRIQUE

photo@Sergio Calais

CÉSAR MANRIQUE FOUNDATION

private home 1968-1990

fundation from 1992

"For César Manrique, nature was the fundamental reference of his work and his existence and to the end of his days he managed to maintain a profound commitment with the defence of the natural environment and, in concrete, of his native island, Lanzarote...Read more

" Built in 1968 on top of a volcanic trail from a volcanic eruption that occurred in 1730-36. It uses, in the lower level, the natural formation of five volcanic bubbles to make an unusual and exemplary living space within a natural space..."

Cactus Garden

César Manrique in front of outside wall

" Before anything, I consider myself a painter.. "

César Manrique working & living 

"The César Manrique Foundation is located in the studio-home that the artist lived in, situated in Taro de Tahiche (Lanzarote). It is probably the work that best represents Manrique's artistic and personal ideals.."

GRAANMARKT 13

The Atmosphere at GRAANMARKT 13 apartment, by 

 Vincent Van Duysen

THE APARTMENT

Come on over, there's nobody home.

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DANCE ON THE WATER

A Flower dance on the water l Praia da Luz, Algarve , Portugal

by

Margarida Dias l Fotografia

THE BEAUTY OF THE NECROBIA RUFIPES

"Necrobia Rufipes from the Coleoptera order is one of many necrophagous insects that help in the decomposition of vertebrate cadavers. Its size ranges from 4 to 6 millimeters long.Color pencil on paper, 2015". Read more

 Ana Calheiros da Cunha Duarte Soalheiro, scientific illustration, Portugal

WHY CREATIVES LOVE CATS

photo @ rui palha_Lisbon street

CATS & ARTISTS

a passion for free minds

Marilyn Monroe, David Bowie, Marlon Brando, Le Corbusier, Igor Stravinsky, Matisse, Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro,

Mark Twain, Twiggy, Frank Zappa, Peter O’Toole, Audrey Hepburn, Pete Doherty, Isabelle Huppert, Bob Dylan, 

Diane Keaton, Marianne Faithfull, Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Michel Basquiat, Jean Cocteau, Agostinho da Silva.

photos & colages by DAzulterrA & Pinterest

AS ARTIST AS ARCHITECT AS SHE

photo via FB & colage by DAzulterrA

TERESA CASTRO

on BEHANCE

Painting, Digital Art, Fine Arts

As an Artist

As an Architect with already a long carrear (www.opera-projects.com), always has been interested by formal and pictorial richness of the "Territory" and "Nature", a theme that has been deepening and exploring in recent years, but now also in a trend of pictorial exploration, not only Architectural.

...This new "path" has been dominating gradually her activity, and, at the present is her main motivation (a kind of artistic purpose, although not yet fully assumed).

The concept and the Genese of this work is a result of a permanent research, which goes through a very personal approach, able to cross the artistic and technological aspects with the potential of what nature offers us, spontaneously.

From this intersection born those Digital Paintings (with a special and a unexpected artístic value), which she calls "Textures Pictóricas_Google" (as captured through Google EarthPro) and using the current technological means, are the result of the merger painting / abstraction / photography / nature / territory ......Read more

TC l Texturas Pictóricas l Google Earth l Salina de Uyuni

TC l Texturas Pictóricas l Google Earth l México

TC l Texturas Pictóricas l Google Earth l Dakota Sul l América do Norte

TC l Texturas Pictóricas l Google Earth l Minera Escondida

TC l Texturas Pictóricas l Google Earth l Minesota

photo by Linkedin & colage by DAzulterrA

As an Architect:
Co-founder of OPERA Design Matters, architectural and Planning office, (www.opera-projects.com), and also of "José Soalheiro & Teresa Castro, Arquictetos, Lda". 
Opera incorporates a carrear with over 25 years and was born by fusion of multiple complementary experiences originated by different professional groups, generator and enhances of value. .Read more

photo & colage by DAzulterrA

Teresa Castro at Home in Lisbon

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photo & colage by DAzulterrA 

photos J.P.C. via Facebook & colage by DAzulterrA 

Teresa Castro at Home in Salgado´s Vila

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photos by TC via Facebook

photos by J.P.C. via Facebook

ENTARDECER NO SALGADO

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HÔTEL DES GALERIES

The Atmosphere at Hotel des Galeries, Galerie du Roi, 2, Bruxelles, by Camille Flammarion Fleur Delasalle

TIGMI

The Atmosphere in a TIGMI Hotel, Marrakech, Morocco

Tigmi is somewhere between a hotel and riad, a perfect choice for people looking for authentic luxury near Marrakech...

LEMAIRE À LA BIBLIOTÈQUE

  LEMAIRE SS 2015

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris