October 2008
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“Did you know that, down here in the desert, we call the rain Paradise?”
– Paulo Coelho: The cloud and the dune
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Impressionist
Claude Monet lived his childhood in Le Havre, city on the west coast of France, where the Seine river meets the Atlantic Ocean. The place and its nature made him a strong impression, particularly the river which he recalls:
The Seine. I have painted it all my life, at all the hours of the day, at all the times of the year, from Paris to the sea…
His works tell about his inclination to...
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The Birth of Beauty
Water possesses a deep understanding of beauty. Its different forms, motions, shapes and surface structures construct the sense - the measure - of beauty to us. Intuitively and subconsciously, we compare everything we see against that measure.
Metre is a measure of length. It became a standard after a series of international conferences in the 1870s. The original prototype bar for one metre was...