ArtCorner

While busying yourself to complete your itinerary, do not neglect the art that surrounds you while on vacation. While eating your meals or walking along the narrow paths of a European city, their in the art around you lies the history, the passion of the people, and the true story of the place.

Another option is to look for up and coming artist on the walls of the cafés. While enjoying your “Café Ole” ask management, waiters and find out about interesting art you find on the wall. It is a great way to take back memories with you from your travels, and who knows, your small investment could grow into what could possibly be the beginning stages of your child’s college fund.

Pablo Picasso’s Old Guitarist (1903) a masterpiece from the artist’s Blue Period depicts a man sitting cross-legged playing a guitar. Reminds me of art decor you will find in a small French or Spanish cafe while traveling. No laptop computer, no business meetings, no carpooling children to soccer games, simply enjoy yourself and take in the cafe decor.

If you have a picture of cool hand painted art then share it with all of us!

I created a group on Flickr for people to share pictures of art they found inspiring and meaningful, the art can be something personal, something decorative or just great museum art (I placed some pictures from my last visit to the Met and the MoMA)…
It’s just a great way to share the beauty and grace of oil paintings.

All you have to do is join the group and start posting cool pictures of great hand painted art! It should be fun!

One of the most prolific artists of the modern era, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), was tormented in his life time by some sort of condition. Scientists have tried to determine what van Gogh was suffering from, but this complicated case still baffles many.

During the last two years of his life, Van Gogh displayed an eccentric personality and unstable moods, along with recurrent psychotic episodes. Over 150 physicians have ventured a variety of diagnoses for van Gogh’s condition, many identified van Gogh’s illness as temporal lobe epilepsy. In essence, that was the original diagnosis made by the French physicians who had treated van Gogh.

Van Gogh had earlier suffered two distinct episodes of reactive depression, and there are clearly bipolar aspects to his history.

The whole Van Gogh family was tormented with mental illness and some might consider his condition a genetic one: his brother Theo suffered from manic depression and his sister as well.

Vincent had a bother that carried his name, Vincent, who passed away a year before Vincent the artist was born in 1852. Many think that him being brought to this world as a replacement to his dead brother was the beginning of a slippery-slope that brought upon Van Gogh’s desperate mental state.

Vincent Van Gogh committed suicide at the age of 37, the highlights of van Gogh’s life and letters are reviewed and discussed in an effort toward better understanding his suffering.

The glamorous Hollywood stars are continuously re-inventing the definition of style… trying to out-ritz the rest of the stars is not an easy task.

One creative visionary has re-defined the meaning of a Hollywood getaway by completely renovating and redesigning a massive majestic abode – a wooden dome home in the heart of Southern California’s retreat – Big Bear.

The home is an architectural marvel and located in one of the most beautiful parts of the country.

The beauty of the exterior is surpassed by an exquisite decorative interior, spot lights illuminate the central living room shinning light on over a dozen hand painted Impressionist oil paintings – reproductions of Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Gustav Klimt, Pier August Renoir, Pablo Picasso and many more…

The Impressionist Dome Home is a one of a kind retreat that the wealthy and the famous of La La Land will be standing in line for many years to come…

See more of the Dome Home: http://www.bigbeardomehome.com/