2010 Fine Art Interview with Gavin Rain - South African Painter
2010 Fine Art interview featured on the 2010 Show with South African painter Gavin Rain. For more information visit the website on 2010fineart.com
Most Colorful Beach Towns In The World
Travel Much? - Most Beautiful Coastal Towns To Visit ...Polperro, England - You wouldn’t know at first glance, but this idyllic town in Cornwall has a scandalous past. In the 18th century, Polperro’s secluded coastline was a frequent entry point for smugglers, who brought in alcohol, tobacco, and other contraband. They left few traces behind; traditional fishermen’s cottages, dating back to the 16th century, line the narrow streets, and the downtown area has boutiques and galleries. But you can learn about Polperro’s colorful history at the Heritage Museum of Smuggling and Fishing.
The Town of Saint George dates back to the early 17th century. Today, you can visit St. Peter’s, the oldest Anglican church in the Western Hemisphere, built in 1612, and the Unfinished Church, with its majestic stone arches. Other buildings have a decidedly tropical feel: white limestone roofs and exteriors painted in vibrant hues of pink, yellow, blue, and orange.
Italy has no shortage of pretty coastal towns, but we’re partial to Manarola. The tiny Cinque Terre village dates back to the Middle Ages and consists of a jumble of bright cliff-side homes overlooking the sea. Manarola—and the rest of Cinque Terre—is also known for producing white wine and olive oil.
If you were asked to picture a quintessential New England coastal town, chances are you’d envision Camden. The former manufacturing village occupies the green shores of Penobscot Bay, near the base of Mount Battie. Historic windjammers and dozens of other boats bob in Camden’s harbor. The downtown business area, rebuilt after an 1892 blaze and designated the Great Fire Historic District by the National Register of Historic Places, is filled with handsome brick buildings. And white clapboard homes line the residential streets.
At more than 2,000 years old, Kotor is Montenegro’s oldest town. Its historic area has narrow streets and stone buildings dating back to that time. Besides the impressive architecture, Kotor’s surroundings are also quite idyllic. The town sits near the base of the rugged Mount Lovcen, in a quiet corner of the Bay of Kotor.
Lunenburg, on Nova Scotia’s southern coast, is one of the few North American towns designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. It was founded by the British in 1753 and still has a colonial feel. The fishing and shipbuilding town’s buildings were traditionally painted black and white—those being the cheapest paint colors. In recent years, people began choosing other colors to make their homes and businesses stand out, giving historic Lunenburg a cheerier look.
It’s hard to believe Sidi Bou Said is just minutes outside Tunis, Tunisia’s largest city. The picturesque Mediterranean town feels worlds away, with its bougainvillea-draped stone streets and blue-accented, whitewashed buildings. Sidi Bou Said is also known for its white-sand beaches and impressive harbor.
Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí supposedly found inspiration in this village on Spain’s Costa Brava. He spent time in Cadaqués while growing up and later had his home and studio (now a museum) in neighboring Port Lligat. Cadaqués has a rustic, yet sophisticated charm. Whitewashed houses with tiled roofs line the rocky coast, and art galleries continue to flourish.
Located in Vietnam’s dramatic Halong Bay, with lush mountains as a backdrop, this little village is completely composed of floating homes. About 700 people (traditionally fishermen) live in anchored houseboats, with kids attending a floating school. Cua Van has become a popular tourist attraction, as visitors want to see this unusual way of life for themselves.
In the 1700s, Greenland began the tradition of color-coding its buildings: hospitals were yellow, police stations black, fisheries blue. The colors were the same from town to town. Folks eventually chose more varied pigments for their dwellings. In the archetypal fishing village Ilulissat, the rainbow-hued architecture makes a stark contrast to the Arctic surroundings. Ilulissat is also home to an ice fjord of the same name: a collection of giant icebergs that you can see from the streets.
Oia is a town on the northern coast of Santorini. Perched on cliffs above the sea, it’s the romantic blue-and-white Greek town that has launched thousands of cruise-ship vacations.
The maritime way of life is firmly rooted in the DNA of Paternoster, about 90 miles north of Cape Town. Most buildings are classic fishermen’s cottages, white with dark roofs. The town enforces a strict architectural code to preserve its character. Fittingly, you can get great seafood here. Paternoster hosts a Crayfish and Seafood Festival each November, featuring South African favorites like snoek braai (a regional fish, dried and cooked over coals), potjiekos (seafood stew), and fresh crayfish, cooked to order.
Music: Spirit Valley by Dhruva Aliman
ATTENTION ART LOVERS: Hein van der Merwe Artist - Selection A
Hein van der Merwe Artist - Selection A
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Hein van der Merwe (63) is a professional South African artist based in Somerset West (near Cape Town), South Africa and has been painting for 40 years. His art is currently being marketed world-wide and forms part of several overseas collections in various countries including UK, Belgium, France, Australia, and Canada.
He has worked under the following names: Hein v. d. Merwe, Lorek Smith, Robert Slide and J. Morake. His style of art is diverse, as are his topics. He likes to work wet-into-wet and has a tendency towards impasto. He is mainly a self-taught artist and has also studied clear-line art (open segment) especially Herge (Tintin), Uderzo and Goscinny (Asterix), etc. Impressionism has had an influence on his work and his favourite impressionists are: Cezanne, Monet, Manet, Bazille, Boccioni, Bonington, Bonnard, Soutine, Braque, Caillebotte, Cassat, Renoir, Turner, Constable, Corinth, Corot, Degas, Gauguin, Dufy, Jongkind, Seurat, Fritz von Uhde, Matisse, Morisot, Picasso, Pissarro, Sargent, Sisley, Signac, Vuillard, Lautrec, Slevogt, Van Gogh, etc. He has great admiration for the Fauves and the Cubists but admits to be leaning (currently) towards Expressionism. Amongst his favourite Expressionists are: Kandinsky, Erich Heckel, Beckmann, Campendonk, Otto Dix, Feininger, Delaunay, Andre Derain, Ensor, Kokoschka, Schmidt-Rottluff, Grosz, Jawlensky, Kirchner, Paul Klee, Klimt, Max Klinger, Macke, Marc, Otto Mueller, Munch, Wols, Werefkin, Emil Nolde, Pechstein, Rohlfs, Schiele, Modersohn-Becker, Leistikow, Hoelzel, etc. His list of favourite artists goes on to include Modigliani, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Miro, Salvador-Dali, etc.
South African artists whose work he was exposed to (and touched) from an early age includes: Maggie Laubser, Irma Stern, Maudsummer, Pranas Domsaitis, JH Pierneef, Alexis Preller, Jan Volschenck, Pierre Volschenk, George Crosland Robinson, Frans Oerder, Hugo Naude, Edith King, Gwelo Goodman, Allerley Glossop, Bertha Everard, Jean Welz, Pieter Wenning, Charles Peers, Edward Roworth, Florence Zerffi, Ruth Prowse, Dorothy Kay, Adolf Jentsch, Moses Kottler, William Timlin, Neville Lewis, Clement Seneque, Alfred Krenz, WH Coetzer, Cecil Higgs, Freida Lock, Wolf Kibel, Ruth Everard-Haden, Walter Battiss, Maurice van Essche, Stefan Ampenberger, Gregoire Boonzaier, Terence McCaw, Gerard Sekoto, Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, Eleanor Esmond-White, Sidney Goldblatt, Carl Buchner, Paul du Toit, Gordon Vorster, Majorie Wallace, Cecil Skotnes, Erik Laubscher, Anna Vorster, Bill Ainslie -- the list of artists he has studied and admired is seemingly endless...
He has also studied pottery and wood carving where his main stimulus was derived from African art and Folk art. In 1998, he completed a graphic novel, The Amazing Adventures of Tom Strak in: The Humming Key, which was intended for the Asterix and Tin Tin market. His posters are available for pdf download online under the name Lorek Smith. He hopes to one day complete a painting from start to finish without interruption.
Further aspirations and leanings include to do more abstract paintings, abstract expressionism, Art Brut, colour-field painting, fauvism, hard-edge painting, illusionism, mixed media, Op Art, pointillism, pop art, post-impressionism, more primitivist work, surrealism, stylisation, symbolism, tachisme as well as abstract woodcarving and scupltures and is always on the lookout for strange objects with the intention of creating some found object masterpiece.
African Guernica
In the small village of Hamburg in the Eastern Cape, a group of villagers working as the Keiskamma Art Project have created an exhibition called African Guernica. The exhibition is dominated by a massive tapestry inspired by Picasso's Guernica that he created in outrage at the bombings of innocent civilians in the little village of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The work is on the same scale and similar colour palette to Picasso's icon. The tapestry took the people of the Hamburg over six months to create and draws on their own experiences of outrage and sadness as their friends and family die of AIDS and tuberculosis while the state ignores their plight.
ATTENTION ART LOVERS: Hein van der Merwe Artist - Selection B
Hein van der Merwe Artist - Selection B
Music © The New York Robbers
Hein van der Merwe (63) is a professional South African artist based in Somerset West (near Cape Town), South Africa and has been painting for 40 years. His art is currently being marketed world-wide and forms part of several overseas collections in various countries including UK, Belgium, France, Australia, and Canada.
He has worked under the following names: Hein v. d. Merwe, Lorek Smith, Robert Slide and J. Morake. His style of art is diverse, as are his topics. He likes to work wet-into-wet and has a tendency towards impasto. He is mainly a self-taught artist and has also studied clear-line art (open segment) especially Herge (Tintin), Uderzo and Goscinny (Asterix), etc. Impressionism has had an influence on his work and his favourite impressionists are: Cezanne, Monet, Manet, Bazille, Boccioni, Bonington, Bonnard, Soutine, Braque, Caillebotte, Cassat, Renoir, Turner, Constable, Corinth, Corot, Degas, Gauguin, Dufy, Jongkind, Seurat, Fritz von Uhde, Matisse, Morisot, Picasso, Pissarro, Sargent, Sisley, Signac, Vuillard, Lautrec, Slevogt, Van Gogh, etc. He has great admiration for the Fauves and the Cubists but admits to be leaning (currently) towards Expressionism. Amongst his favourite Expressionists are: Kandinsky, Erich Heckel, Beckmann, Campendonk, Otto Dix, Feininger, Delaunay, Andre Derain, Ensor, Kokoschka, Schmidt-Rottluff, Grosz, Jawlensky, Kirchner, Paul Klee, Klimt, Max Klinger, Macke, Marc, Otto Mueller, Munch, Wols, Werefkin, Emil Nolde, Pechstein, Rohlfs, Schiele, Modersohn-Becker, Leistikow, Hoelzel, etc. His list of favourite artists goes on to include Modigliani, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Miro, Salvador-Dali, etc.
South African artists whose work he was exposed to (and touched) from an early age includes: Maggie Laubser, Irma Stern, Maudsummer, Pranas Domsaitis, JH Pierneef, Alexis Preller, Jan Volschenck, Pierre Volschenk, George Crosland Robinson, Frans Oerder, Hugo Naude, Edith King, Gwelo Goodman, Allerley Glossop, Bertha Everard, Jean Welz, Pieter Wenning, Charles Peers, Edward Roworth, Florence Zerffi, Ruth Prowse, Dorothy Kay, Adolf Jentsch, Moses Kottler, William Timlin, Neville Lewis, Clement Seneque, Alfred Krenz, WH Coetzer, Cecil Higgs, Freida Lock, Wolf Kibel, Ruth Everard-Haden, Walter Battiss, Maurice van Essche, Stefan Ampenberger, Gregoire Boonzaier, Terence McCaw, Gerard Sekoto, Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, Eleanor Esmond-White, Sidney Goldblatt, Carl Buchner, Paul du Toit, Gordon Vorster, Majorie Wallace, Cecil Skotnes, Erik Laubscher, Anna Vorster, Bill Ainslie -- the list of artists he has studied and admired is seemingly endless...
He has also studied pottery and wood carving where his main stimulus was derived from African art and Folk art. In 1998, he completed a graphic novel, The Amazing Adventures of Tom Strak in: The Humming Key, which was intended for the Asterix and Tin Tin market. His posters are available for pdf download online under the name Lorek Smith. He hopes to one day complete a painting from start to finish without interruption.
Further aspirations and leanings include to do more abstract paintings, abstract expressionism, Art Brut, colour-field painting, fauvism, hard-edge painting, illusionism, mixed media, Op Art, pointillism, pop art, post-impressionism, more primitivist work, surrealism, stylisation, symbolism, tachisme as well as abstract woodcarving and scupltures and is always on the lookout for strange objects with the intention of creating some found object masterpiece.
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Red Carpet Fashion Show 2016 TVC Multichoice Fashion One
Saturday, 17 September 2016 saw the sixth annual Red Carpet Fashion Show in partnership with Prestige Magazine and DStv’s Fashion One, with an incredible line up of international and local designers at The Bay Hotel in Camps Bay. The celebration marked the seventh anniversary of Red Carpet Concepts – bespoke communications agency and producers of #RCFS.
This year the Red Carpet Fashion Show went global redefining the South African runway with a fusion of art, fashion, music, culture, gastronomy and fine wine. Local and international designer brands showcased their spring-summer collections with a mix of SA’s finest couture alongside some of our freshest up and coming trend setters in the local fashion scene. Included was SA King of Couture Jacques LaGrange, fashion powerhouse Joanna Hedley with BeachCult (known for her showstopper run in Africa Fashion Week London and MBFW Joburg), theHive (recently featured at Cannes Film Festival), OnTrend (a conglomerate of fun, fresh and funky designers) and M-Couture! Modest wear together with fine quality footwear by Tread+Miller.
Antiques Roadshow A Laurel and Hardy Swiss Miss horn; silver presentation cup....
Facts or Fictions: The Mysteries of Renaissance Cartography
This two-day conference celebrates the 500th anniversary of Martin Waldseemüller's Carta Marina, one of the great masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, and focuses on some of the most mysterious maps of the Medieval and Early Modern periods. First of four sessions.
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The Power of Tangible Things
Lecture by:
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 300th Anniversary University Professor, Department of History, Harvard University
Ivan Gaskell, Professor of Cultural History and Museum Studies, Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
Sara Schechner, David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
Sarah Anne Carter, Curator and Director of Research, The Chipstone Foundation
Samantha van Gerbig, Photographer and Designer, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things continue to mesmerize. In this program, the authors of Tangible Things: Making History through Objects will conduct a lively conversation about Harvard “stuff”: the books, manuscripts, artwork, scientific specimens, ethnographic artifacts, and historical relics found in the University’s world-class collections. The speakers will share perspectives on some of Harvard’s collected items and challenge people to discover new ways of looking at, organizing, and interpreting the tangible things in our environment.
October 26, 2015, 6:00pm
British Museum Department of Conservation and Scientific Research | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:45 1 History
00:01:54 1.1 Sir Hans Sloane
00:03:04 1.2 Foundation (1753)
00:04:31 1.3 Cabinet of curiosities (1753–78)
00:06:33 1.4 Indolence and energy (1778–1800)
00:08:05 1.5 Growth and change (1800–25)
00:10:54 1.6 The largest building site in Europe (1825–50)
00:12:59 1.7 Collecting from the wider world (1850–75)
00:15:08 1.8 Scholarship and legacies (1875–1900)
00:17:42 1.9 New century, new building (1900–25)
00:19:39 1.10 Disruption and reconstruction (1925–50)
00:21:35 1.11 A new public face (1950–75)
00:23:36 1.12 The Great Court emerges (1975–2000)
00:25:07 1.13 The British Museum today
00:27:59 2 Governance
00:29:24 3 Building
00:35:44 4 Departments
00:35:53 4.1 Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan
00:44:08 4.2 Department of Greece and Rome
00:52:20 4.3 Department of the Middle East
01:00:10 4.4 Department of Prints and Drawings
01:03:03 4.5 Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory
01:17:06 4.6 Department of Asia
01:25:16 4.7 Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
01:32:22 4.8 Department of Coins and Medals
01:33:02 4.9 Department of Conservation and Scientific Research
01:33:41 4.10 Libraries and archives
01:34:50 5 British Museum Press
01:35:48 6 Controversy
01:38:34 6.1 Disputed items in the collection
01:39:45 7 Galleries
01:40:05 7.1 Digital and online
01:40:41 8 Notes
01:40:50 9 See also
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The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, in the United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture. Its permanent collection numbers some 8 million works, and is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence having been widely sourced during the era of the British Empire, and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. It is the first national public museum in the world.The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the Irish physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. It first opened to the public on 15 January 1759, in Montagu House, on the site of the current building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of expanding British colonisation and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum (Natural History) – now the Natural History Museum – in 1881.
In 1973, the British Library Act 1972 detached the library department from the British Museum, but it continued to host the now separated British Library in the same Reading Room and building as the museum until 1997. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and as with all other national museums in the United Kingdom it charges no admission fee, except for loan exhibitions.Its ownership of some of its most famous objects originating in other countries is disputed and remains the subject of international controversy, most notably in the case of the Parthenon Marbles.
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British Museum
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- Socrates
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The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, in the United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture. Its permanent collection numbers some 8 million works, and is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence having been widely sourced during the era of the British Empire, and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. It is the first national public museum in the world.The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the Irish physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. It first opened to the public on 15 January 1759, in Montagu House, on the site of the current building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of expanding British colonisation and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum (Natural History) – now the Natural History Museum – in 1881.
In 1973, the British Library Act 1972 detached the library department from the British Museum, but it continued to host the now separated British Library in the same Reading Room and building as the museum until 1997. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and as with all other national museums in the United Kingdom it charges no admission fee, except for loan exhibitions.Its ownership of some of its most famous objects originating in other countries is disputed and remains the subject of international controversy, most notably in the case of the Parthenon Marbles.
Great Englishwomen Audiobook by M.B. Synge | Audiobook with Subtitles
Great Englishwomen is a collection of biographies of some of the greatest women in England's history. Women who were leaders of their country in troubled times, women who were reformers in prison conditions, and those who sought improvement in the education and living conditions of the poor. Some were great painters, poets, and writers. (Summary by Laura Caldwell)
Great Englishwomen
M. B. SYNGE
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Biography & Autobiography
Chapters:
00:00:20 | 01 - Queen Bertha
00:10:54 | 02 - Maude the Good
00:18:38 | 03 - Eleanor of Aquitane
00:34:40 | 04 - Philippa of Hainault
00:47:11 | 05 - Margaret of Anjou
00:58:26 | 06 - The Lady Margaret
01:11:23 | 07 - Margaret Roper
01:20:44 | 08 - Lady Jane Grey
01:35:37 | 09 - Princess Elizabeth
01:48:56 | 10 - Lady Rachel Russell
02:04:34 | 11 - Angelica Kaufmann
02:17:04 |12 - Hannah More
02:27:30 | 13 - Elizabeth Fry
02:40:05 | 14 - Mary Somerville
02:56:37 | 15 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
03:12:10 | 16 - Florence Nightingale
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne | Part 1 of 2 | Audiobook with subtitles
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (Version 3)
Jules VERNE , translated by F. P. WALTER
Originally published 1870, this recording is from the English translation by Frederick P. Walter, published 1991, containing the unabridged text from the original French and offered up into the public domain. It is considered to be the very first science fiction novel ever written, the first novel about the undersea world, and is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus, as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax - Summary by Michele Fry
Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Travel Fiction
Chapters:
1:15 | Introduction
12:20 | 1-1. A Runaway Reef
29:22 | 1-2. The Pros and Cons
43:22 | 1-3. As Master Wishes
55:22 | 1-4. Ned Land
1:12:15 |1-5. At Random!
1:27:56 | 1-6. At Full Steam
1:48:13 |1-7. A Whale of Unknown Species
2:05:17 | 1-8. Mobilis in Mobili
2:24:49 | 1-9. The Tantrums of Ned Land
2:41:04 | 1-10. The Man Of The Waters
3:02:02 | 1-11. The Nautilus
3:21:39 |1-12. Everything through Electricity
3:38:19 | 1-13. Some Figures
3:55:10 |1-14. The Black Current
4:22:52 | 1-15. An Invitation in Writing
4:41:57 | 1-16. Strolling the Plains
4:57:14 | 1-17. An Underwater Forest
5:14:02 | 1-18. Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific
5:34:33 | 1-19. Vanikoro
5:59:28 | 1-20. The Torres Strait
6:19:46 | 1-21. Some Days Ashore
6:44:41 | 1-22. The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo
7:09:26 |1-23. Aegri Somnia
7:29:58 | 1-24. The Coral Realm
7:49:50 | 2-1. The Indian Ocean
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