Children donate to needy
THE CHILDREN of Muixara school in La Nucía took part in a collection week at the beginning of the month, marking World Day of Peace, to help needy families in the town.
In total they collected over 300 personal hygiene and home cleaning products, which were delivered to El Calvari social centre last week where the department of social welfare is located. The products will be distributed via the food programme to families in social emergencies.
Mayor Bernabé Cano thanked all the children who participated for their initiative and solidarity with the campaign.
THE ARTS Society Marina Alta presents its second Zoom lecture live from the U.K. on Thursday, March 4.
The waiting room opens at 10.45 for registration of members and guests and the lecture begins at 11.00 promptly.
The subject of the lecture will be: ‘Sorolla Enlightens Manhattan’ by Arantxa Sardina.
Arantxa Sardina is an official guide at Tate, covering the permanent collection and some of the temporary exhibitions at both galleries. She has completed her M.A. in Art History at the Open University, where her dissertation focused on fellow Spaniard Joaquin Sorolla, the master painter of Mediterranean light.
She is also an enthusiastic amateur musician, playing the cello and the piano and a lover of opera and ballet.
Sorolla Enlightens Manhattan
Joaquin Sorolla hated darkness, he believed painters could never reproduce sunlight as it really is, and he could only 'approach the truth of it'.
Sorolla managed to capture like no other the light of the Mediterranean beaches he loved and the energy of Spanish life. He painted what he saw, quickly, to capture that precise moment.
As he said: "I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.”
The artist is appreciated for his large-format works, his outdoor paintings, portraits, social-themed paintings, small studies, and the sketches he drew on the napkins of New York restaurants.
In 1909 Joaquin was invited to exhibit his works at the Hispanic Society of New York. This exhibition was an immediate success, it is reported more than 150,000 people visited each day.
He returned in 1911 to paint a large mural for the society and was most prolific in painting and selling his paintings in America.
The painter reflected his fascination with New York in a series of aerial views that he sketched from his elevated room in the Savoy Hotel. These are intimate memories that he made to recall a precise moment, which are painted with complete freedom and which, therefore, are enormously modern.
For more information on our lectures and membership and to join our Zoom presentation please visit our website www.marinaaltaarts.com or contact our programme secretary
by sending email to tasma.programme@gmail.com
This presentation is sponsored by BlevinsFranks