SEE YOU SOON DAVID HOCKNEY

"I live the same way as I have for years; I'm just a worker. Artists are. Michelangelo, Picasso - they worked all the time. In the last four years of his life, Van Gogh's time is almost all accounted for. He did all those drawings, wrote all those letters. What other time was left over? Just enough for sleeping, that's all. But you never hear about artists staying in bed, because they don't."

From the book: 

"LOVING VINCENT" PAINTED FILM - HOW IT WAS MADE

The animation-style, stop-motion film is made entirely from real oil paintings. The result looks as if Van Gogh's vivid figures have come to life. The story considers what might have happened if Van Gogh did not kill himself, but was in fact murdered.

To capture changing backgrounds, facial expressions, and movement, each canvas was re-painted an average of 76 times. between them, the artists executed a total of 65.000 frames in oil paint.

GOYA AND THE COURT OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Goya was a Spanish painter (1746-1828). He painted many portraits of the Spanish Royal Family. His most famous paintings are Charles IV of Spain and His Family. His masterpieces in painting also include The Naked Maja, The Clothed Maja and The 3rd of May 1808.

Goya was born in Fuentetodos, Aragón, Spain, in 1746. In about 1749, the family moved to Zaragoza. Goya later moved to Madrid. He tried to join the Spanish Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1763 and 1766, but he failed. he traveled to Rome, too.

At the age of forty, Goya was appointed painter to King Charles III. In 1789, he was promoted to court painter under Charles IV. The enlightened monarchy of Charles IV came to an end when Napoleon´s armies invaded Spain in 1808.

Exhibition in Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa: Goya and The Court of enlightenment (14th February - 28th May).

WORKING DOGS

A working dog is a working animal, a kind of dog that is not merely a pet but learns and performs tasks to assist or entertain its human companions. Detection dogs can be employed at airports, police stations, borders and schools. Tracking&Hunting dogs are trained to be the eyes and ears for the humans.

There are more types of working dogs: Herding dogs, bird dogs, guard dogs, sight dogs, trackers.....

HOLLYWOOD VS BOLLYWOOD

Difference between Hollywood and Bollywood:

Hollywood is a physical place in Los Angeles, California, USA. Hollywood has become popular world-wide, with many of its films being released in almost all countries. 

Bollywood is an informal term that is used to represent the Hindi-language film industry in India. Bollywood is not a physical place. It's a representative term for popular Hindi films.

Hollywood and Bollywood are both popular cinemas. They are two completely different cinemas for different audiences and cannot properly be compared.