360 http://www.aurlaea.com en-us Copyright E 2013 AurlaeaJ. All Rights Reserved. Terms & Conditions at http://www.aurlaea.com/terms_conditions.html Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:18:43 GMT http://www.aurlaea.com/rss http://www.aurlaea.com/article-142-gustave_caillebotte_1848-1894.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-142-gustave_caillebotte_1848-1894.html Caillebotte’s ability to reach beyond the flat canvas and project an image through the union of space, color, and texture, gives us a deeper understanding of the role of poetics. Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:51:50 GMT Impressionism Art Painting Biography http://www.aurlaea.com/article-144-nasturtiums_gustave_caillebotte.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-144-nasturtiums_gustave_caillebotte.html Caillebotte's composition nuances the relationship between image and its material space, its color, texture, and reaches toward the dreamlike basis of the conscious imagination. Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:57:21 GMT Impressionism Art Painting http://www.aurlaea.com/article.php?id=149 http://www.aurlaea.com/article.php?id=149 Daniel Swarovski invented a crystal-cutting machine. William Morris produced Evenlode, a masterpiece of printed cotton indigo. Claude Monet finished a hazy oil on canvas named Impression: Sunrise... Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:30:26 GMT La Belle Époque http://www.aurlaea.com/article-166-the_poetics_of_design.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-166-the_poetics_of_design.html It is a visual experience that is so primal that we cannot see it except through a timeless, archetypal framework fashioned from the original processes of art. Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:02:57 GMT Essay Design Art Poetics Poetry Psyche http://www.aurlaea.com/article-153-gifu_wagasa.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-153-gifu_wagasa.html The sunlight flowing through translucent and colorful washi paper reproduces the feeling of a skylight. Through its drapings, light accentuates the perception of a woman’s beauty. Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:27:40 GMT Handwork Material & Technique Japanese Umbrella http://www.aurlaea.com/article-162-wine_and_earth_in_provence.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-162-wine_and_earth_in_provence.html There is no rush. A good wine has a design –an impression of color and light. It takes time to experience its bouquet that awakens the senses. Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:30:13 GMT Travel Wine Aix-en-Provence Cezanne Poetry http://www.aurlaea.com/article-155-shennong_and_the_chinese_heritage.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-155-shennong_and_the_chinese_heritage.html Shennong knew what scientists have now confirmed, that tea is a rich source of naturally occurring phenolic compounds that control oxidation of fat and reduce cholesterol. Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:34:47 GMT Health & Relaxation Chinese Tea http://www.aurlaea.com/article-157-the_organ_of_sense.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-157-the_organ_of_sense.html A growing number of women are choosing clothes made from sustainable fibers, like organic cottons, wild silks, and soy fibers that allow the skin and the body to move freely and breathe. Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:45:34 GMT Beauty & Health Skin Natural Fiber http://www.aurlaea.com/article-159-the_way_of_gebedu.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-159-the_way_of_gebedu.html The first night sleeping under the stars, I kept waking up and going over the sky, star by star. In the deep light of just before dawn a thousand little finches chimed their bells in the clover. Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:57:33 GMT Personal Essay Backpacking Nature Sierra Ansel Adams http://www.aurlaea.com/article-160-poetic_image_and_voice.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-160-poetic_image_and_voice.html The path taken was just as pleasing and perhaps more intriguing, but not as separate as it might seem at first, suggesting, that two paths are one voice contrasting and complementary patterns. Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:32:39 GMT Thematic Essay Poetry Robert Frost Poetry Poetic Image Voice http://www.aurlaea.com/article-154-a_lineage_of_design_and_handwork.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-154-a_lineage_of_design_and_handwork.html Ever since I was a child, watching my grandmother, sew clothes, embroider, and string beads, I have liked the idea of art being worn. Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:38:36 GMT Personal Essay History Design Handwork Art Wearable Art http://www.aurlaea.com/article-163-another_time_another_space.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-163-another_time_another_space.html Beyond the dual reality of human perception, there is a dimension of space and time that is uncertain and beyond the grasp of human thought. Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:10:02 GMT Thematic Essay Einstein Harmony Reality Time Timelessness http://www.aurlaea.com/article-146-music_review_benvenuto_cellini.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-146-music_review_benvenuto_cellini.html A performance of drama and comedy, the music develops complexity, contrasting brass and strings with orchestral voices. The finale is as brilliant as the music of Romeo et Juliette. Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:34:32 GMT Musical Review Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini Opera http://www.aurlaea.com/article-143-reconciling_art_and_nature.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-143-reconciling_art_and_nature.html In the end, there was little to reconcile, because Impressionnisme was a way to experience nature directly, an intuitive experience of colors, patterns, and sketches, at a moment in time. Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:27:17 GMT Thematic Essay Impressionism Nature Art Painting http://www.aurlaea.com/article-167-visions_of_flora.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-167-visions_of_flora.html His visualization of Flora in his poetry was of a magnificent woman who was partly human and partly spirit, a goddess of abundance and well-being... Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:28:54 GMT William Morris goddess Flora Arts and Crafts Movement http://www.aurlaea.com/article-168-what_lasts_in_time.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-168-what_lasts_in_time.html Through the patient work of her hands and the processes of creativity a woman could produce complex, dreamlike textures, intricate overlapping, abstract floral and geometric patterns... Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:21:28 GMT goddess handwork woman nature bead making http://www.aurlaea.com/article-171-the_nature_of_bead.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-171-the_nature_of_bead.html I am everything that you are –indigo, azure, and twilight rose. I am that which falls through the center of itself on silk thread. Hold me for a moment. The bead is an ancient text written in the mythological-ancestral language of being. Its elegant persona, strung, sewn and woven... Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:04:52 GMT Prose Poem Symbolic Design Bead Mythology Color Aurignacian Shaman http://www.aurlaea.com/article-172-haymakers_resting_camille_pissarro.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-172-haymakers_resting_camille_pissarro.html In Camille Pissarro’s rural images of harvesting and shepherding, sensuous color is often a gradually nuanced pool of light that mirrors the movement of wind, clouds, and fields –within which the human story is indistinguishable from the essence of light. Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:22:31 GMT Artwork Camille Pissarro Impressionism Color Texture Brushwork Consciousness http://www.aurlaea.com/article-173-elaborations_of_the_spirit.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-173-elaborations_of_the_spirit.html The Impressionist engagement of nature concurred with the primal human experience of nature, which depended on submitting life to both the measured and unexpected patterns of nature. The artistic sensibility toward color... Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:02:29 GMT Impressionism Art Painting Nature Color Pissarro Composition http://www.aurlaea.com/article-174-camille_pissarro_1830_1903.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-174-camille_pissarro_1830_1903.html As a painter, Camille Pissarro was fascinated by the interchange of light and color. He often painted the same landscape at different times of the day, to study the way changing and moving light modified the perception of color. Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:29:29 GMT Camille Pissarro Impressionist Art http://www.aurlaea.com/article-175-ten_foods_eaten_by_ancient_civilizations.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-175-ten_foods_eaten_by_ancient_civilizations.html Ancient civilizations had an amazingly wide-ranging cuisine. The conquests, explorations, and trade routes of the Roman Empire provided the Romans with sources for the most diverse foodstuffs. Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:35:06 GMT Food Trade History Rome http://www.aurlaea.com/article-176-seven_tips_to_avoid_flu.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-176-seven_tips_to_avoid_flu.html The flu virus becomes more widespread every year, however there are simple things you can do to avoid it. This article will list seven precautions to help prevent the flu. Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:51:20 GMT Flu Virus Health http://www.aurlaea.com/article-179-the_light_of_chiang_mai.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-179-the_light_of_chiang_mai.html At 4 p.m. the famous “Sunday market” starts coming to life on the “walking street” in the heart of Chiang Mai. Vehicles are banned for the evening and the street fills... Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:45:52 GMT Travel Wat Thailand http://www.aurlaea.com/article-178-sanctus_luxurri.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-178-sanctus_luxurri.html Against a backdrop of pristine landscapes, forests, and vast skies, what mattered most was protecting the nomadic spiritual odyssey, which had existed since the beginning... Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:46:54 GMT Handwork History Sanctus Luxurri http://www.aurlaea.com/article-177-ancient_trade_and_civilization.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-177-ancient_trade_and_civilization.html In the evolution of trade and civilization, as prosperity became more and more defined by economic status, the potential for ornament to be exploited as wealth redefined the concept of "luxury goods". Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:47:57 GMT Trade Civilization Luxury goods http://www.aurlaea.com/article-181-poetry_tea_and_tao.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-181-poetry_tea_and_tao.html In 1908, New York merchant Thomas Sullivan packaged tea samples into hand-sewn muslin bags, intending for his customers to empty the leaves into hot water. Some though, unsure what to do, submerged them in their tea pot and the tea bag was invented. Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:41:14 GMT Tea Poetry Tao Teapot Tea Bag http://www.aurlaea.com/article-182-art_and_the_present_moment.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-182-art_and_the_present_moment.html “To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all.” --Picasso. Before the ancestors were completely human they were completely natural, which, among other things, meant they lived life to the fullest, imitating nature in their art, language, and music. Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:17:16 GMT Art Picasso Consciousness http://www.aurlaea.com/article-183-the_far_house_of_graves.html http://www.aurlaea.com/article-183-the_far_house_of_graves.html Deià is one of the oldest, remotest, and most beautiful villages in Spain, una pequeña aldea of cafés, hotels, villas, fincas, olive trees, and vineyards terraced into stony hillsides, between sea and mountains on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:18:43 GMT Robert Graves Travel Spain Mediterranean Deià