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How can I know if I love my partner or not?

Mónica Boixeda Only-Be, Sevillian

The story of the donkey. A king wants his donkey to talk, then a rabbi comes, he’s an old man, and he tells the king: “I can make your ass talk in five years, but give me so many millions” and the king said: “I give you this money but If the donkey does not speak after these five years cut your head off!” The king left and then the rabbi’s friends said: “but you´re crazy!?, donkey’s never going to speak”, and the rabbi answered them: “You don’t know anything, in five years the donkey will talk or I may die or the king may die, but let´s try”. This story teaches us something and you will wonder what. Well, a wise person would tell you: “”psychological law, between not doing anything and doing always what needs to be done. Because if you do not do it you will spend your lifetime thinking about what you did not do, if you do and you mistake, at least it teaches you. When a person gives advice to another one, it hast to be useful, otherwise it is better not to do it because it is not easy. If you’re wondering: “Do I love this man or not? I could tell you another wonderful store: The blue rose. There is a princess who does not want to get married and her father tells her: “You´re marrying someone!” Then she says: “I will marry the one who brings me a blue rose. He says: “But there are no blue roses in the world!” “Well -she says- whoever bring me a blue rose,... read more

Vorticism: rebellious artists in London and New York 1914-1918

Mónica Boixeda Only-Be, Venetian

For the first time in Italy, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (www.guggenheim-venice.it) presents an exhibition devoted entirely to Vorticism, a short-lived British art movement characterized by a style that combines the forms of mechanical time to the image suggested by the vortex, which took place in early twentieth century. This exhibition is curated by Commissioners Viviane Greene and Mark Antliff and will take place from 28 January to 15 May. Vorticism is generally considered as one of the most significant of British artistic production moments of that time, although it lasted for very short (approximately for three years). Its beginnings date back to the Rebel Art Centre, an art production founded by Wyndham Lewis, among others, in opposition to the Omega Workshops of Roger Fry, and finds its roots in the Bloomsbury Group, Cubism and Futurism. Cubism, especially, was a major source of inspiration for the group, but traditionally it is often associated with the future due to erroneous assumptions such as care for dynamism (a peculiarity almost absent in the vortex, with the exception of Nevinson, artist that in the course of his career approached to Futurism), the age of the machine (a futuristic veneration which most Vorticists distrusted) and the abstract style. But the most obvious difference between these two movements is undoubtedly the way in which they treat to represent the moving image. In Vorticistic art reality of the modern condition is shown by an order of bold lines and discordant colors that lead the viewer right into the center of the work. Hence the interest in the movement of the vortex, its inevitable attraction. The term... read more

Let us face the future at the Miró Foundation

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

Taking up a walk beautiful Montjuic and walk around for a little while is always a very rewarding activity. If you´re tired, just admire the sea views to get inspired and regain life forces. If in addition to nature, you, walker, are keen on art, you can feel doubly rewarded by the number of sites and museums able to arouse your admiration and enthusiasm. Among them, the splendid and Mediterranean-inspired rationalist style building by Josep Lluis Sert occupied by the Fundacio Joan Miro (Parc de Montjuïc s / n). It is here where until February 20 you can see, along with the extraordinary permanent collection of works by Miro, the exhibition Let Us Face the Future, which presents eighty-eight works by British artists from prestigious public and private collections and made between 1945 and 1968. The roster of artists includes such important and influential people in the history of modern art as Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Anthony Caro, Lucien Freud, Bridget Riley, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton. But the exhibition, which is accompanied by a very interesting lecture series, aims to go beyond the presentation of a collection of isolated pieces of a number of outstanding artists. Its goal is to draw a kind of journey through the artistic and social landscape of the United Kingdom during the construction of the Labour welfare state, defending the thesis that during this period optimal conditions for the big creative explosion that took place there were created, Particularly in London in the sixties. A real cultural revolution whose leaders, the product of the democratization of access... read more