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Dalai Lama: 18 principi della felicità

1. Tieni sempre conto del fatto che un grande amore e dei grande risultati comportano un grande rischio.
2. Quando perdi, non perdere la lezione.
3. Segui sempre le tre "R": Rispetto per te stesso, Rispetto per gli altri, Responsabilità per le tue azioni.

4. Ricorda che non ottenere quel che si vuole può essere talvolta un meraviglioso colpo di fortuna.
5. Impara le regole, affinché tu possa infrangerle in modo appropriato.


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Fredric Michael Wood, 1944 | Pittore impressionista

Fredric Michael Wood: "Art first came to my attention in a serious way as a boy fortunate to spend many of my formative years in Europe while we were stationed there as a military family.
I was hooked when I discovered an old impressionist oil painting, in a storeroom in our house overseas, of the French countryside, and I stared at it for a long long time trying to imagine how one could paint such a scene! I resolved to get beyond my little drawings and watercolors, and learn to paint like that!
Thanks to childhood, naiveté, I didn't know then how difficult that would be, when, later, much later, I would discover great artists of the past such as John S. Sargent, Joaquin Sorolla, Anders Zorn, and Frank Tenney Johnson, along with illustrators like Howard Pyle and others from the Golden Age of Illustration", as well as contemporary artists, Andrew Wyeth, and John Asarro, and so many others of my contemporaries, whose work would compel, but challenge me so"!


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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Terrace at Cagnes, 1905

Suffering from severe rheumatism late in life, Renoir often visited Cagnes, a town in southern France. He rented an apartment in the Maison de La Poste (post office building) and lived there from 1903 to 1907.

We see that building on the right side of this painting. Renoir could view the streets of Cagnes and its orchards from a window in his apartment.
This painting presents, in limpid brushwork, the houses and orchards arranged stepwise on the hill.
The woman seated on the wall is wearing a white hat and a red jacket.
Beside her is a child in a straw hat. | Source: © Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Terrace at Cagnes, 1905 | Bridgestone Museum of Art

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Lise - La femme a l'ombrelle, 1867

Lise, also known as Lise - La femme à l'ombrelle, or Lise with a Parasol, is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, created in 1867 during his early Salon period.
The full-length painting depicts model Lise Tréhot posing in a forest.
She wears a white muslin dress and holds a black lace parasol to shade her from the sunlight, which filters down through the leaves, contrasting her face in the shadow and her body in the light, highlighting her dress rather than her face.


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George Sand’s letter to Alfred de Musset

George Sand (Scrittrice e drammaturga Francese, 1804-1876) ed Alfred de Musset (Poeta, scrittore romantico e drammaturgo Francese, 1810-1857) si erano conosciuti nel giugno del 1833 presso amici comuni quando Musset, dopo aver letto Lélia, le scrisse di essere innamorato di lei.
Vivono una passione tormentata con picchi estremi di creatività che scandalizza le loro famiglie, gli amici e quanti sono loro accanto, costringendoli a lasciare Parigi per fare approdo in Italia, alla ricerca di un’impossibile felicità.
A dicembre partirono insieme per l'Italia: a Genova George Sand si ammalò di una malattia che trascinò fino a Venezia, dove alloggiarono dal 1º gennaio 1834: George passava a letto le sue giornate, curata dal giovane medico veneziano Pietro Pagello, mentre Musset passava le notti con alcune prostitute.
Tuttavia anche il poeta contrasse il tifo, che gli procurò febbre altissima ed allucinazioni e venne assistito da George e da Pagello, che intanto era divenuto amante della scrittrice.

George Sand and Alfred de Musset

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Arthur Wasse | Genre painter

Arthur Cramer James Wasse (1854-1930) was born in Manchester in 1854, the son of John Angelo Wasse, a painter of miniature portraits. He started painting at an early age.
In 1875 Wasse was studying at the Manchester School of Art and, by the late 1870s, had exhibited work in London to good reviews.
He received several prizes when he was studying at the Munich school of painting.
After a short stint at the Royal Academy, Wasse returned to Munich, where he was entranced by southern Germany’s towns and landscapes and between 1875-1890 he travelled back and forth between Germany and England, running his own art school in London for a time.


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Roberto Weigand, 1968 | Illustratore surrealista

Roberto Weigand è un illustratore di libri per bambini e designer di copertine di riviste in Brasile. Ha studiato Architettura all'Università di San Paolo e nel 1991 ha iniziato a lavorare come illustratore per giornali, riviste e libri per bambini.
Dal 1999 lavora come illustratore e Infografista per la rivista Veja, dal 2001 diventa responsabile delle copertine della rivista Istoé e dal 2002 inizia a scrivere per la rivista Publish.
Lavora essenzialmente con il computer, utilizzando diversi stili e tecniche per illustrare data la sua esperienza con la progettazione grafica e la fotomanipolazione.