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dear friends

       Dear blogger friends, I'm sorry for changing so often the layout of this blog, but I'm just not satisfied with what I've got going on here, with the design....As you know, I've started blogging for few months now, from july, and I'm still learning a lot about it!
      And because I'm not a computer savvy, if I may say so, I'm just about to go crazy! I was thinking to take up the "blogging your way" course given by Decor 8, to make an idea on how to design my own blog...
     Oh well, I guess you'll just have to bear with me until I find the most suitable layout image to match my vision of perfect blog :(
     Sorry again, hope you will not be disappointed in the end,

Love to you all, MARIA

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Versailles goes Manga

  In the art world, these days, the polemic created around the latest Versailles exhibition was on everybody's lips...

       Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami has caused a sensation in France with the opening of his exhibition at the Versailles Palace near Paris. The exhibition, which is hosted in the stately 17th century venue’s Grand Apartment and Hall of Mirrors, includes 20 works from throughout Murakami’s career, including the life-sized sculpture of a particularly buxom maid, Miss Ko2 (1997); the cartoon character-like sculptures, Kaikai and Kiki (2000); and the dazzlingly reflective Oval Buddha Silver (2008). 

       The show has drawn criticism from people who believe the brightly coloured, anime-inspired works have no place in the sumptuous French palace. News agencies report that several online petitions against the exhibition were created and small demonstrations against it have been held.

      "The show is meant to be a “face-off between the Baroque period and postwar Japan, and I hope it will create in visitors a sort of shock, an aesthetic feeling,” Murakami reportedly said.

the oval buddha

       As part of the contested new exhibition, the psychedelic piece, "Flower Matango," and a dozen other monumental sculptures by celebrated  POPartist are now rubbing elbows with the treasures of Versailles – magnificent tapestries, marble sculptures and paintings by 18th century masters.

     That proximity between old and new – between the charged Baroque style and that of Japanese comic books, or mangas – is making some people uncomfortable. Even before the exhibition's official opening Sept. 13, "Murakami Versailles" sparked a storm of criticism from groups who denounced the show as inappropriate.

     Murakami's known for his outrageous, manga-influenced aesthetic and his lucrative collaboration with luxury bag-maker Louis Vuitton. The groups complained that his work has no place in rooms once belonging to France's Sun King, Louis XIV.

Incredible Flock of Starlings

art in all the forms we can imagine

       I love drawings ! I adore them...looking on these sketches on the Moleskine notebook , makes me want to go out there and buy myself one, but....since I don't have time to draw, it's better to restrain myself from making any extra expenses that I don't really need right now, and focus on my canvases...

sophie varela

sophie varela

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sophie varela

sophie varela-cover correction

sophie varela-travel sketches

sophie varela-travel sketches

camila do rosario

camila do rosario

camila do rosario

camila do rosario

camila do rosario

camila do rosario

felicia atanasiu-illustrator based in Canada

felicia atanasiu

felicia atanasiu

felicia atanasiu

felicia atanasiu

felicia atanasiu

felicia atanasiu

felicia atanasiu

felicia atanasiu

schmooks on etsy

yoskay yamamoto

moleskine rush

             Moleskine,as we all know, is an italian notebook publisher. The company’s masterstroke was creating the link between the notebooks and icons such as Picasso, Van Gogh, and Hemingway, who used similar-looking ones long before the brand existed.
           It offered you the illusion that the only thing separating your doodles from Kandinsky’s is nicer paper stock. Even though Moleskine’s connection with Hemingway and the like is mostly a founding myth, the company has allied itself with an impressive crop of contemporary creative types. Artists, designers, writers, and architects from Maira Kalman to Dave Eggers have readily put their own Moleskines on display as part of the company’s traveling Detour exhibitions.         
        The company’s V.P., Maria Sebregondi, had the idea of turning the anonymous black notebooks she saw in Paris as a student in the early 1980s into a product. “At the moment you go to a Moleskine notebook, you connect yourself with a long tradition, with a rich history, with a contemporary creativity, with beautiful projects related with the arts, culture,” she says. 
“And you’re part of a community, a bigger creative club worldwide.”

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kaori yamaya

           

             We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. 

            Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

- Woodrow Wilson

The Passion Color

• Red is the highest arc of the rainbow.

• Red is the first color you lose sight of at twilight.

• The longest wavelength of light is red.
• Red represents beauty in many languages and cultures
• Red has more personal associations than any other color. Recognized as a stimulant, red is inherently exciting and the amount of red is directly related to the level of energy perceived.

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     "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday". John Wayne