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HEAD SHEET METAL APRIL 2011: THE INSTITUTE OF THE ARAB WORLD, by Jean Nouvel in Paris

During the month of April 2011 the head of select you have been a photograph of the south facade of the Institut du Monde Arabe, Jean Nouvel located in Paris. We had already discussed this in the entry building devoted to contemporary architecture Paris : The IMA is without doubt one of the contemporary buildings worth visiting in the French capital, which stood at NOUVEL in the list of the greats.

The Arab World Institute was inaugurated in 1987 (in '81 was called the contest, and construction began in '84). It consists of two sections separated by a deep rift and a square courtyard (the plant interesting, very interesting): the body looks north toward the Seine and is shaped like a knife, with the curved facade. The south, however, is an almost regular parallelepiped with the famous facade mobile lattice work according to the external light by photoelectric cells (broken for some time, or at least without movement, according to my data.) In front of this facade is the entrance plaza also known, in one end, next to Boulevard Saint-Germain, his unique point of access in white marble with these recesses that can bring to mind a maze or an Arab medina . Inside the building are impressive lighting effects and transparencies, which relate the spaces and boundaries blur.

impressive And the situation of the Arab World Institute and Riverfront St Louis, and views from the upper terrace.

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NATIONAL MUSEUM Decorative Arts in Madrid

After my visits to Cerralbo Museum and the Museum of Romanticism , I thought it might be reasonable to return to the Museum of Decorative Arts, because I find some relationship between the three. It is a museum that already knew: some time ago visited the permanent collection more recently was in a temporary exhibition , but in truth, was not very fresh, only to go back the rooms have been remembering.

The ground and first floors are dedicated temporary exhibitions, which this time had relatively little to say the "substance: not deserve further comment.

On the second floor you can see the reproduction of some rooms in a seventeenth century house, I found interesting, well recreated and well explained. On the same floor, rooms with gold and jewelry, and pottery pieces, fabrics (I always catch the eye: I saw them in this line of mine ... smaller museums -bother anyone, please, I have to COSTUME MUSEUM return to) and work leather covers DOLPHIN TREASURE can be seen in the Prado, and pieces of leather.

In the third and fourth floors, furniture mainly eighteenth and something of the early nineteenth century. Longer stays are recreated, but which pieces, sometimes loose and sometimes composing small sets, which makes it all less contextualized, though not without appeal. He remembered quite clearly the Neapolitan Nativity Scene, with its exaggerated bottom of columns, and instead had no fun in Valencian cuisine head completely finished with decorated ceramics. There is also a room dedicated to the well achieved REAL GLASS FACTORY FARM.

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the Cerralba and the Museum of Romanticism, the NATIONAL MUSEUM OF DECORATIVE ARTS I found suggestive: it is much less a museazo (formerly the Museum described as minor, and I think the rating is very just), but allows you to view and place pieces everyday manifesting the desire of anyone, at any time, to live surrounded by tasteful, well designed and crafted objects to the smallest detail. The art house is not (always) whim, nor is (always) vain, nor is (always) way to demonstrate wealth and social status. It is not (only) channel for the catechesis of the Church and for state propaganda. Many times (not always) sensitivity, for many (dare I to say all) is extremely rewarding, and (for some) a real need.

I missed, yes, a good section of parts of the twentieth century, a period in which you can find stunning designs, true masterpieces: I think it is a very serious gap in the Museum. Without going further in the brochure cover what appears is not a photograph of a neoclassical furniture, but the Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld, neoplastic, designed in 1918, and went up the stairs as you see, it is true that among other things, is the Barcelona chair by Mies van der Rohe, 1929. I asked in information and was told that actually had these pieces, but who were not exposed because the temporary exhibition halls were busy, a situation that gives real shame and I hope is temporary. The same person told me, with little precision, it must be said that in May, beginning an exposure that will include such pieces (or parts of those: I suppose he meant modern / contemporary). I am here.

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interesting topics for BLOG: 5 Arts & Crafts (Octavio Ocampo / wheat chaff)

Art- the Latin ars - is a human cultural activity of a creative nature, expressing ideas and feelings through various resources. It is synonymous with ability, skill and talent.

Artist is he who produces a work of art. Among the visual arts-painting is create images through pigment- classifying an artistic genre painters, which is the subject specialization that characterizes it.

A notable example artist is the Mexican-born Celaya, Guanajuato in 1943 - Octavio Ocampo, a painter and sculptor known for his painting metamorphic, which plays with images, figures and independent life of its own, which eventually form a whole a new figure.

In its work, optical illusion based on the metamorphosis and ambiguity of images, masterfully juxtaposes the art of visual metamorphosis of different images into one, making a striking effect.

Fortunately for us, almost in the family had the opportunity to admire the exhibition "Metamorphic Centennial" at the Casino English in Mexico as stated in the photograph of the Artist Jaime mentioned.

Crafts artist-in- manus is a craft that gets similar products, but not identical, derived from a manual technique that produces goods individually creative. The craft is a compromise between design and art.

I encountered in Pasto, Nariño Department, Republic of Colombia an attractive craft: the plated chaff to the decor of all kinds of wooden objects.

The chaff or straw is the product of threshing grain or lint follows from linen, cotton or wool. In San Juan de Pasto in southern Colombia using wheat straw subjected to heat-coloring process, getting different ranges, between the natural color of straw and dark brown.

Using a scalpel, the straw is partly along for thin plates with fragments of which the artisan creates intricate patterns and textures.

The bases on which are painted with aniline decorating and finishing catalyzed lacquers are used.

This traditional technique of ornamentation requires great patience, precision and delicacy of the fragile material

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the Danube, by Claudio Magris

a long-years-had the Danube in the head. When Anagrama published it in 1988, and I heard of this title, though not always in the same direction: for some it was a gem, others a brick. At the time it ojeé and not tempted me too. But a few weeks ago I recommend him again, and I decided to go. Now that I'm done I fully understand that very disparate range of views, from the undisputed jewel more infumable block. A unique book, THE DANUBE. A long text, like a river, sometimes fast flowing and colorful, bright, energetic ... and other slow, slow, dull or dense.

on the Danube, Claudio Magris the Italian Germanic tells a trip along the whole river, more than 2800 kilometers from its sources in the German town of Donaueschingen (or is Furtwangen?) In Forest Black, to its mouth in the Romanian town of Sulina, on the Black Sea. Wherever he goes the river goes shelled Magris more or less detail, not always well-depth history, events and people associated with the place. And, in turn, will reflect the character and genius Central, sometimes Prussian other result of the Austrian Empire, others of Slavic, Magyar and Balkan.

The great strength of the Danube is, in my view, the richness and variety of what she told us: There are some very wise about travel considerations and the fact of traveling, and brings to mind spectacular sites, destinations those who go or destinations that you know (I have enjoyed, for example, recalling my visit to the monastery of Melk, or the Cafe Hawelka and Karl-Marx-Hof: Part of Vienna can be a great alternative guide to tour the city). Makes many reflections on life itself that are very suggestive, very attractive descriptions of places, story telling, legends and very enjoyable event, presentation of characters (the world of literature, politics, science) really varied and interesting . It is, without doubt, very illustrative of the culture and life of central and eastern Europe, a Europe with a rich history alive, by the way, has changed since he published his Magris Danube in 1986.

The problem is not always maintain that level of success, suggestion, attractive, amenity and interest. Surely this is a personal problem, but the text is so cultivated -although nothing pedantic, I must say, that sometimes quote, comment and itemizes over issues and personalities very central and East-European, unknown to the reader (I insist, at least for me): I must admit that I have traveled very comfortable in Germany, Austria and Slovakia, but it cost me to travel Magris the hand of the political culture and the Yugoslav, Romanian and Bulgarian, or the otherwise, I lost a chance to go into this land, unknown to me. As the book is long, it fails to get you the everything is true that it reads well, it is true that it is entertaining, even when the reader knows who or what he is talking because he is not familiar with the names or events, it is true that, as the text is divided into chapters short, it is easy to stop if you saturate ... but it is, let alone a book of those who are willing to have a free moment to read more, or you can spend a ratazo followed.

Returning to what I said earlier, I believe the Danube is a jewel more than a brick, because it's really interesting and enriching. I really liked and I'm glad I read it, but I understand that some to be a suckling pig. Can not think of reading as one reads DANUBE a soap opera: a travel book to be placed on the shelf most of the tests in the stories, and I say this now that I've finished but I have not done so, perhaps it should be read slowly, without haste, even without strict continuity: I think that is one of those books, I have found few, reasonably compatible with others.

I Magris a comment that caught my attention: Budapest. I note in my list of places remaining. "Budapest is the most beautiful city on the Danube, a wise self-staging, as in Vienna, but with a strong substance and vitality unknown in the Austrian rival. Budapest gives the physical sensation of capital, with a manor and a city authority protagonist of the story ... "