Pleasure Reading 2

At the estate Manderley Mrs. de Winter met the housekeeper Mrs. Danvers, who devoted to the first  wife Rebecca of Mr. de Winter. Mrs. Danvers didn't perceive her as the mistress of the eastate, a new sweetheart of her innkeeper, and as a sincere woman. Mrs. de Winter tryed her best, but she only beat the air. However, the new Mrs. de Winter attempted to make changes at Manderley, while Mrs. Danvers was describing all the time how Rebecca had run it when she was alive. Each time Mrs. Danvers did that, she implyed that the new Mrs. de Winter lacked the experience and knowledge necessary for running an important estate. And nothing could help Mrs. de Winter to please the housekeeper.

Rendering №2 ART

     The article was published on the website "Art News for Art Lovers" on the 19th of February, 2013. The title is "Orange County Museum of Art organizes first retrospective of radical Los Angeles artist Richard Jackson".
     This article tells us that the Orange County Museum of Art presented one of the most ambitious exhibitions ever organized by the museum. Richard Jackson: Ain’t Painting a Pain is the first retrospective devoted to one of the most radical artists of the last 40 years. Jackson has expanded the possibilities of painting more than any other contemporary figure and his wildly inventive, exuberant, and irreverent take on “action” painting has dramatically extended its performative and spatial dimensions, merged it with sculpture, and repositioned it as an art of everyday experience rather than one of heroic myth. The only American presentation of Ain’t Painting a Pain is on view in Newport Beach from February 17 through May 5, 2013. The exhibition then travels to the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, Germany and to the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art (S.M.A.K) in Ghent, Belgium.
     The exhibition is conceived as a series of eleven room-scale installations from 1970 to 2011, most never before shown in the United States, accompanied by over 150 of Jackson’s related preparatory drawings, works on paper, and models. Foremost among these is 100 Drawings (1978), each a different proposal for a painting project, presented for the first time since its creation. To especially mark the occasion of this retrospective, Jackson produced a major new outdoor piece, Bad Dog (2013), a 28 foot-high puppy establishig his territory on the side of the museum. The exhibition, curated by OCMA Director Dennis Szakacs, is the first devoted to a living artist to occupy the museum’s entire exhibition space.
     “Jackson’s humility and humor make his work all the more bold, and his example of quiet perseverance devoted to difficult, uncompromising work is one that other artists, and all museums, would do well to follow more frequently” states Szakacs.

 

Rendering №1 ART

      The article was published on the website of "The Ultimate Guide to Great Art Online: Art Cyclopedia" on the 18 of January. It tells us about a great painter John Constable and his masterpieces. One of his works was "Cottage in a Cornfield" (1833).

     The author of this article remembers us about John Constable (1776 – 1837) who broke new artistic ground in the 19th century, with scrupulous images of nature and extraordinary broken colors. Constable lived in England, gaining fame for his cloud-swept local landscapes. He made numerous sketches of his subjects outdoors, before painting the final artworks in his London studio. Shunning tradition, Constable represented light with daubs of white or yellow, and storms with swift brushstrokes. Although he was snubbed by his own country, Constable won several gold medals in France. His exemplary work strongly impacted the French romantics, the Barbizon school and the Impressionists.
     His artworks had their own particularities, delicate things and wonderful colours. And the author explained us the painter's own way of painting giclée.
     This giclée print delivers a vivid image with maximum color accuracy and exceptional resolution. The standard for museums and galleries around the world, giclée (French for “to spray”) is a printing process where millions of ink droplets are sprayed onto the paper’s surface. With the great degree of detail and smooth transitions of color gradients, giclée prints appear much more realistic than other reproduction prints. And the example of such way of painting is "Cottage in a Cornfield".

 

Pleasure Reading 1

     A young, nice narrator worked as the companion to a rich American woman in Monte Carlo. In the restaurant the narrator became acquainted with a wealthy Englishman, Maximilian de Winter. He was a 40 years-old widower; a restrained and serious man. Spending a lot of time together, the girl got to know about his estate in Manderley and his wife, although it was a painful subject for him. When the main character was going to leave the place of their meeting, Mr. de Winter proposed marriage to her, and she agreed to marry him. After the wedding and honeymoon, theywent to his mansion, the beautiful estate Manderley.

My Pleasure Reading

Year I Term I - Agatha Christie "Sparkling Cyanide"
Year I Term II - Agatha Christie "Murder in Mesopotamia"
Year II Term III - Ian McEwan "Enduring Love"
Year II Term IV - Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice"
Year III Term V - William Somerset Maugham "Theatre"