In my childhood at the same time there were two vinyl records. PI Tchaikovsky and Louis Armstrong. On the cover was a dim
Jazz - is eclectic. Outrageous mixture of styles. Port phenomenon. How do the tango. Only the tango was born in Buenos Aires. A jazz - in New Orleans.
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Posts Tagged ‘Wine Art’
Wine Playlist: New Orleans Jazz
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010Francis Ford Coppola: “As every American is available my movie, it should be available and my wine.”
Monday, November 8th, 2010
Do not focus too heavily on his professional career. First, remember the immortal Kozma Prutkova – Specialist similar flux: the fullness of his one-sided. ” And secondly, just look around – many outstanding people teach us lessons of a very unexpected combination of his life’s activities.
For example, Francis Ford Coppola. What associations with the name? “The Godfather” – an instant answer each and rightly so. Well, the wine? With wine from someone associated with? If not, we are now corrected. Because the five-time Oscar winner, director and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola – known in California, and in general in the United States, winemaker.
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Wine Frame: The Italian Job, Dom Perignon
Sunday, November 7th, 2010By Roman standards, the “big celebration” began with a mark in 5000. Much of the ancient Germans had to crumble, so you considered worthy triumphal procession. Quartet white horses, a gilded chariot, all that …
But in my opinion, the triumph can be attributed, and a more modest achievements. First and foremost those for whom – some sweet obscurity.
Say, going to college – a triumph. A diploma, promising quest quite some work – just a holiday.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset. Three paintings of wine – part 3
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010Bacchanalia” Poussin
Something that tells Poussin, seems even more fun than Titian’s version … but the characters of Poussin are not men but gods. This fauns, sirens, nymphs and satyrs, amounting in the eternal forest company Bacchus and Ariadne in their unrestrained joy …
… In the surreal space of the picture before our eyes is a harmonious procession of deities, marked an inexhaustible zest for life: they drink, but do not get drunk, and she is an orgy for them is not a holiday, as usual, a normal life. … How could I tell Meyer-Graf, it is happiness, which has become the norm …
… Here a child with Titian’s painting is placed right next to the Faun and nymph, seated on a goat. However, the baby goat legs, too – it’s pretty satirenok, the son of a goat and a wonderful … god …
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Jose Ortega y Gasset. Three paintings of wine part 2
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010“Bacchanalia” Titian
Titian. Bacchanal. Titian. Bacchanalia. 1523-1526
… I do not think there’s a world of yet another equally cheerful picture … she should have to give another, more expressive name, which would correspond to what it actually is – that is, moments of triumph …
… Men and women … they drink, have fun, talk, dance, luxuriate and given slumber. There seem to be ravnovozvyshennymi any natural acts. Almost in the middle of the picture the kid lifted the hem of his shirt, and satisfies the small need. At the top of the hill is illuminated by a naked old man, and in the foreground a nude Ariadne stretches, overcome asleep …
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Jose Ortega y Gasset. Three paintings of wine – part 1
Monday, October 18th, 2010
His famous essay, three paintings of wine next great philosopher of the twentieth century, published in 1916, when he was still 33 years old. But by the time he had finished a pessimist. History for him – it’s decadence and degeneration. Therefore, the theme of wine and wine fun, he also treats is not very cheerful. The direction in which history moves, he does not like.
Based on three paintings by great masters of the past – Titian, Poussin and Velázquez, wrote their versions of “Bacchanalia”, Ortega y Gasset traces the difference in the attitude of people and the golden age of modernity. And this difference strengthens the philosopher in his historical pessimism. Simply put, people with time and drink some unlearned, the philosopher states.
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Wine library
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010In the film What Men Talk About “is a tip: when you’re at a crossroads, imagine that you are tortured fascists, and then choose” either – or “going to be easy. So, the Nazis, I do not know what I prefer – the wine or jazz. But just as the songs of Marlene Dietrich’s good for snaps, drinking wine is to accompany the music too strictly defined.
Not for me to explain to you that when a creature named “Gendos” two floors below will lead to full volume, “In jail on a bunk, I lay / His life a long time I am there, you can not drink a drop. In contrast, Natalie Cole album will make you empty the bottle with a sense of forgiveness and an irresistible desire to embrace the world.
Library – it is generally an attempt to support your mood main note. If at first, Brahms, and behind him – Blind Willie mood will not work. In our case, the dominant note, I chose the life-asserting ease. Sense of a prospector, with whom he looks round the new mine. So …
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Painting Caravaggio, Vermeer and fake bikers
Thursday, September 30th, 2010
Caravaggio’s “Supper at Emmaus”, 1601
The first miracle of Christ? – Turning water into wine at the wedding at Cana (Jesus’ mother noticed that honeymooners problem: end wine, and asked her son to do something – Jn. 2:1-12). Your right to question the prestige of this miracle than healing Sukhorukov, walking on water and daunting possessed. But from the fact that wine and Christianity are very closely intertwined, you can not escape.
Bread and wine are leaking important detail paintings on the Gospel stories, of course, is not just. But the collapse in the very beginning of the post in a dense thicket of origin of the Christian mythology, I can not.
Let us just take for granted: Wine, white tablecloth and fried chicken never, under any circumstances can not be simply wine, white tablecloth and fried chicken, if there is depicted Christ. A painting in this context – this article with a mighty reference apparatus. Any item on it – a reference to quite a specific passage of Scripture or visual commentary.
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As Peter and Ridley make a movie- part-5
Monday, April 5th, 2010Afterword
Russell Crowe left his temporary home in Provence, then repeatedly spoken out in that spirit, there it felt like home – so he actually lives in his mansion in Australia. (I wonder if there is his vineyards produces a wine? Some Chardonnay Crowe-Creek?)
Ridley Scott is still the owner of the estate in Oppende, located ten minutes drive from the former location filming. Sometimes a rest is in between the creation of blockbusters. His managers monitor its vineyards produce its own wine, of course, not on an industrial scale, as well – for the home.
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As Peter and Ridley make a movie- part-4
Monday, April 5th, 2010Exterior
I wonder how Ridley Scott chose the character for filming. In a large movie all done for real. If the plot is the story of a garage wine – it is a winery and is selected. He visited all the surrounding neighborhood – between their home and the home of Peter – and found just what seemingly has been specially created to embody the creative intention of our friends.
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