The sea beholds secrets for everybody. Since the beginning of time the human being has felt curiosity by what it keeps in silence. Although many of us only dream with the adventure and discoveries, a select group of men could undertake what the sea had reserved for them.
The sea has been object of artistic recreation and matter of inspiration for writers, musicians, painters, philosophers… “The water of the sea cures the sickness of all men”, Greek dramatist Euripides pointed out. We sail throughout the history of art to make ten indispensable paintings stand out which elevated the water, with their symbolic charge and supreme aesthetic category.
Navigation and Film have much more in common than anyone could think of. The main point of cohesion between these two worlds is the continuous search of roads to reach the objective. In Film, and more specifically, in screenwriting, the main element that must exist in a story is the objective that our protagonist or hero has.
Geertruida Margaretha Zelle, better known as Mata Hari, was born in Leeuwarden, Holland on August the 7, 1876, daughter of Adam Zelle Hatter, nicknamed the Baron, for his delusions of grandeur and extravagant habits.
Exhibition center and work place that possesses over 125 years of history in Amsterdam, a must on the European map of great galleries. The Rijksmuseum is the refuge of “The Night Watch” by Rembrandt, painting that has a special place in the history of art, including masterpieces by Vermeer and Frans Hals.
A legendary female figure, as could have been the saint and military heroine Joan of Arc in France and well as the personality that seems to emerge from literary fiction, like that young woman from “Las Dos Doncellas” of Cervantes, disguised as a knight
The mistakenly called Armella Spitalier collection would have no reason of existing if it was not meant to be shared universally. Today I’m sure it’s still the only pre-Columbian sample that can be visited from every corner of the planet earth.
Far from political and social postures, Madiba (as elder men from the Mandela clan call him with affection) is a transcendental figure in the history of our perceptions and ideologies toward the human race, the conscious of being, the union of ethnicities, the no discrimination and the pacific coexistence.
Let’s allow time and the wonders this world has to offer transport us over the Nairobi mountains, passing the Masai Mara, and the Rift. May the wind put us down in faraway lands and allows us to breath a different air. We find a morning colored by the sun, and the mist fills the soul with promise.
Margaret Hannah Olley was an Australian artist who had over 90 exclusive exhibitions during her life. She was born in Lismore, New South Wales, on July 24, 1923 and died at her home in Paddington on July 26, 2011, she was 88 years old.