A good painter has two things to represent: the man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard.” — Leonardo da Vinci By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout It is amazing that 500 years on, we still see news stories about da Vinci in daily press. There was one recently…
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray By…
“I believe that art can create the power and energy of happiness,” artist Hung Yi. By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout As you probably know, apart from gorgeous views, overpriced real estate and great restaurants, San Francisco is famous for its outstanding museums that rival the New York ones. Here are three of them to…
“Even the most art-averse cynic will recognize the blood, sweat and tears that went in to creating this strange and beautiful experience.” ~ Jordan Hoffman, reviewing Sky Ladder in The Guardian By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout In the 21st century, serious collectors have significantly turned away from old masters and impressionism towards modern art….
“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.” Leonardo Da Vinci By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout What does Leonardo da Vinci have to do with salt? Quite a lot if you are in the city of Cracow. If you have already crossed Paris and Venice off your travel list and you…
“My stress comes from the people who try to not let me do what I want to do. That’s probably why it happens that I’ve worked a few times with a studio, but never for a studio.” ~Luc Besson in Deadline interview July 17, 2017 By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout Summer is the time…
Check it out! By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout Today, a couple of very different movies about Second World War and how actions of individual, anonymous people could change some big historical events. 13 Minutes is a German movie (subtitles and real German actors, no Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise in sight) and as such…
“When the financial crash happened in 2008, I realized that the stories that I have been telling since the early 90’s about consumerism and about materialism and how that had become part of the American Dream- that they were all connected.” ~ Lauren Greenfield Generation Wealth Exhibition: https://www.annenbergphotospace.org/exhibits/generation-wealth-lauren-greenfield By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout Lauren…
Food for the Soul Series Check it out: Jack Strong: Movie to Rent “Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.” ~Zbigniew Brzezinski – Polish born US National Security Adviser during…
Food for the Soul Series Check it out: The Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout “To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes, pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.”…