Just wandering on a half-sunny day at The Rose Garden in Florence amidst the sculptures of Jean-Michel Folon. From top to bottom, in order of appearance: Partir (2005), Chat-Oiseau (1994), Méditerranée (2001), Je Me Souviens (2003), Vivre (2002), and Chat (1996). Photos: Mado Flynn. |
Marek Biegalski, Shadow Game, Tuscany, Italy.
Photo: Marek Biegalski/Drone Photo Awards 2020. |
Our first summer walk on Sunday morning around Pietrasanta, Italy amidst the spectacular sculptures of the Spanish artist Manolo Valdés. The exhibition, entitled “Manolo Valdés — Poetica della Traduzione” (Manolo Valdés — Poetics of
Translation), will stay on display till next Sunday, September 30, 2018. Photos: Isadora Duncan.
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11th iPhone Photography Awards (IPPAWARDS)
Lidia Muntean, Romania First Place in trees – a road in Val d’Orcia, a valley in the Tuscan countryside near Pienza and Montalcino, Italy. Shot on iPhone 7 Plus. Photo: Lidia Muntean. |
To our astonishment, Viola Rocchini, priceless teacher and virtuoso dancer of Associazione Culturale “Il Delta della Luna”, gave us a big Boletus edulis (porcino) mushroom as a gift. It was discovered and picked up by Viola’s father around the Mugello valley near Florence.
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Sauro Cavallini’s sculpture of a ballet dancer in tutu is on display at the Civic Archaeological Museum in Fiesole, Florence, Italy. Photo courtesy of Ester Marra.
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And, of course, our penetrating eye could not overlook so great a vision as the dancers of Italian sculptor Davide Dall’Osso, still on display downtown in Pietrasanta, Italy.
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Florence, Italy: A man paddles his kayak down the Arno river, whose water levels are low owing to drought conditions in parts of Tuscany. Photo: Maurizio Degl’Innocenti/EPA.
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Dalí’s Dancer (1949) reflects his admiration for the art of dance, especially the Spanish Flamenco. Photo: Isadora Duncan.
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Dalí’s Alice in Wonderland (1977) is a hymn to the eternal girl who don’t get overwhelmed by the inhabitants of the surrealist world. Photo: Isadora Duncan.
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“I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it”.
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The unicorn is a mythical creature prominent in legends as an intricately linked symbol of purity. The horn of a unicorn is believed capable of neutralizing any poison. In his Unicorn (1977), Dalí chose to portray the unicorn as a phallic figure whose horn penetrates a stone wall through a heart-shaped opening, from which a drop of blood seems to be slowly falling. The nude, reposing female stretched out in the foreground at the hooves of the animal and defended by the mythical beast, underlines the sensual nature of this sculpture. Photo: Isadora Duncan.
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Terpsichore is one of the famed nine Mythological muses. In creating his Homage to Terpsichore (1977), Dalí uses a reflected image, setting the soft, carnal muse against the hardened, statuesque one. Photo: Isadora Duncan.
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Dance of Time I (1979) is the most well-known and beloved of Dalí’s iconic images; the fluidity of time is represented through the melting watch as time not only moving, but dancing in rhythm to the beat of the universe. Photo: Isadora Duncan.
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Woman Aflame (1980) unites two of Dalí’s obsessions: fire, and a female figure with drawers. Photo: Isadora Duncan.
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The Surrealist Piano (1954) is one of Dalí’s major iconoclastic symbols. The artist has chosen to transform the banal woodden legs of a piano, replacing them with dancing female legs, thus creating an animate, joyous instrument that can dance as well as play. Photo: Mado Flynn.
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Salvador Dalí exhibition “Between Dream and Reality” with over 100 works in the medieval town Pietrasanta, Lucca, Italy (November 12, 2016 – February 7, 2017). The Pietrasanta Cathedral and the evocative spaces of the church and the cloister of Saint Augustine are actually hosting over one hundred works by Salvador Dalí. Photo: Isadora Duncan.
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Walking like a duck through the debris on the beach after a storm, you can step on them, one by one. A rusted can of Red Bull, Dr. Strangelove’s sunglasses, a copy of a prearranged game scoresheet, a Black Widow’s Rosary, an illustrated book of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, a leaflet urging support for the Müller-Lyer illusion, and even a DVD of the movie “Gnomeo & Juliet”. At this rate, how many hours are for holiday and how many hours are for work? Photo: Mado Flynn.
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I am one of thousands who received Dr. Strangelove’s annual Christmas wishes. It is just six days since I received his special Xmas card. I immediately knew it would have brought me very good luck. Indeed, the day after I had a flat tire on my car. Hell, it could have gone even worse
:). And today, indeed, while our eyes were shining to the colour of winter sea, I felt we could not have gone better. Photo: Mado Flynn. |
