On the green and cooler north side of Madeira is the small town of São Vicente. If we walk up the hillside, high above the church spire, we find the farm of Leonel Dias and his wife Elda Garcês named A Casa Estrelícia-Dourada Garcês. The 5.000 m2 property consists of more than 1300 m2 of vineyards, including mill and cellar, and the remaining property is an orchard for local fruit trees as well as four spaces for stay, which make ...
30. mai 2023
The World Wide Kitsch Competition for classical figurative painting aims at placing humanistic painting in the spotlight. For the seventh annual, the competition received more applications than ever before, but it also had the most strict jury it has ever had. Only twenty-one painters reached the final round and after a tough decision, the jury selected two paintings for the Landscape and Portrait awards respectively. One of them being “The Pond at Sunset” by Sebastian Martinez Fadic, a symbolist painter ...
6. januar 2022
The World Wide Kitsch Competition for classical figurative painting aims at placing humanistic painting in the spotlight. For the seventh annual, the competition received more applications than ever before, but it also had the most strict jury it has ever had. Only twenty-one painters reached the final round and after a tough decision, the jury selected two paintings for the Landscape and Portrait awards respectively. One of them being Shaun Roberts, an associate professor at the Stephen F. Austin State ...
26. desember 2021
The American kitsch painter Luke Hillestad aims at making pictures that hold and stretch the audience’s attention and heart. His skills for painting and storytelling was recognized last year, as he won the Jury’s Choice Award for Composition in the 2020 World Wide Kitsch competition. Now, the 2021 WWK competition has recently been launched. Hillestad has studied at the Nerdrum School. It was through the philosophy of Odd Nerdrum that Hillestad started identifying as a kitsch painter, and not an ...
19. oktober 2021
The search for Atlantis is the predominant symbol of man’s need to connect with a distant past that nature has erased from our consciousness. If Plato’s account of the continent that sank in the ocean approximately 12 000 years ago should prove to be more than a myth, then the perception of human history as gradualistic and linear will fall apart. Perhaps the discovery of Atlantis would open the doors to a different perspective of life on earth, where reverence ...
5. september 2021
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