Life and Opinions of an Artist ; "A Time For Dreamers"

One researcher of language acquisition describes her basic question as “How do I get a thought from my mind into yours? Last May, Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia, a doctoral candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, in the Dutch city of Nijmegen, flew to Malta for a week to learn Maltese. He had a hefty grammar book in his backpack, but he didn’t plan to open it unless he had to. “We’ll do this as I would in the Amazon,” he told me, referring to his fieldwork as a linguist. Our plan was for me to observe how he went about learning a new language, starting with “hello” and “thank you.” Rojas-Berscia is a twenty-seven-year-old Peruvian with a baby face and spiky dark hair. A friend had given him a new pair of earrings, which he wore on Malta with funky tank tops and a chain necklace. He looked like any other laid-back young tourist, except for the intense focus—all senses cocked—with which he takes in a new environment. Linguistics is a formidably c...

Giorgio de Chirico From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Giorgio de Chirico In 1936, photographed by Carl Van Vechten Born Giorgio de Chirico July 10, 1888 Volos , Greece Died November 20, 1978 (aged 90) Rome , Italy Nationality Italian Education Athens School of Fine Arts , Academy of Fine Arts in Munich Known for Painting , sculpture , drawing , costume and stage design Notable work see Selected works Movement Metaphysical art , surrealism Giorgio de Chirico ( Italian:  [ˈdʒordʒo deˈkiːriko] ; 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian artist and writer. In the years before World War I , he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists . After 1919, he became interested in traditional painting techniques, and worked in a neoclassical or neo- Baroque style, while frequently revisiting the metaphysical themes of his earlier work. Contents 1 ...

Home is where the art is: what Paula Rego, Lubaina Himid and other artists hang on their walls Who are the painters’ painters, the sculptors’ sculptors? Five artists tell us about the works that adorn their personal spaces by Tim Adams. Interviews by Imogen Carter and Killian Fox Sun 26 Aug 2018 08.00 BST Art is more often a conversation than a monologue. Great and not-so-great artists have always wanted to surround themselves with paintings and objects that can speak to their own creative efforts. The most famous example of this desire perhaps is Henri Matisse, who as a young and struggling painter bought a small canvas by Paul Cézanne, Three Bathers , in Paris in 1899, for the then enormous sum of 1,200 French francs. He pawned his wife, Amelie’s, jewellery to help fund the downpayment and paid the dealer in ongoing instalments. For the subsequent 37 years Ce...