GUILLERMO ARANDA-MENA

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Architour: LeCorb en GIRO per L'ITALIA "1907: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret parte da La Chaux-de-Fonds il 3 settembre insieme al compagno agli Ateliers d’art Leon Perrin. Prende un treno per Bern e, passando per Lugano, raggiunge Milano. A Pavia, visita la Certosa. Successivamente si tema a Genova, dove, nelle prime ore della mattina, precorre una lunga parte della costa a piedi (é la prima volta a vede un porto). Riparte con un biglietto di seconda classe in treno verso Pisa, percorrendo la Riviera di Levante. Visita il Duomo e il Campo Santo. Continuando a seguire l’itinerario proposto da Baedeker, Le Corbusier prosegue per Pistoia e Prato. Arriva a Firenze il 10 settembre. Dal 29 settembre al 5 ottobre visita Siena. Torna a Firenze per proseguire per Ravenna, Ferrara, Bologna, Modena, Mantova, Verona, Vicenza, Padova e Venezia. Materiale consultabile: In questo primo viaggio L.C. si interessa principalmente all’architettura del XII secolo o precedente. Si conosco disegni

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From abstract thinking to abstract doing. Guillermo Aranda-Mena©2017

"Another technique artists have used to discover their own identities through an engagement with admired predecessors is that of combination: taking a number of different and well-known influences and combining them in ways that have never yet been tried. The style of Francis Bacon now appears obvious and complete, but the path to this achievement was based on a gradual blending, Bacon was deeply impressed by Vincent van Gogh, as his studies for a portrait of him attest." Alain de Botton and John Armstrong "Art as Therapy" Page 191. "How can anyone become a thinker if he does not spend at least a third of the day without passions, people and books?" Federico Nietzsche in de Botton "The Consolations of Philosophy" Page 219. "As Nietzsche's beloved Montaigne has explained in the final chapter of his Essays, the art of living lies in finding uses for our adversities: We must lear to suffer whatever we cannot avoid. Our life i