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| Artist, Business Woman, Author-Gloria Vanderbilt in her 80s |
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| Self-Portrait of GV by GV |
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| Gloria Vanderbilt in her 20s |
Visitors meander through quarries where works of the 19th century's greatest artists convey the shimmering Mediterranean from the Spanish border to the Italian Riviera. “Monet, Renoir, Chagall” runs through January 2014. Recharge your own way of seeing and being: (here)
Creativity is the heart of the Universe. International education guru, Sir Ken Robinson, said: "Creativity is as important as literacy. Imagination is the source of every achievement. And we are systematically jeopardizing the way we educate our children and ourselves.”
G.V. paints, creates collages and dream boxes, authors books. She produces like a mad genie with no 'off' switch, and materializes loves like a goddess. Beneath the romantic bohemian chic...“I had an image of myself that at my core there was a rock-hard diamond that nothing could get at, nothing could crack it." Artists resist being labeled and shrink-wrapped. Chagall said his art was sometimes a way to resist his own pain.
G.V. says that her greatest beauty secrets are that she’s always in love; and that she has a lifelong built-in instinct for keeping her spirit clear. "Believing it, trusting it, creates the kind of energy that makes it succeed. I have a tremendous appetite for life, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it does.“
“You must have great, secret, big fat hopes for your self in love and in life. The bigger, the better.” Off to find my paints. Les Baux-de-Provence: (here). Gloria Vanderbilt's Fine Art website: (here) Happy, happy weekend!
What a glorious post. I feel like you are my personal tour guide mapping out the finest highlights for my trip in June to Provence -- I will be sure to see this attraction.
ReplyDeleteDo you also have tips on traveling to Kyoto where I am voyaging next month? (kidding -- LOL)
How lucky you are to have met such luminaries in your life.
I have met Holly Hunter, Michael Keeton... wait for it... Cary Grant who came up to shat w/ me due to a humorous passage I was reading aloud.
(does it count that I've met quite a few DC legislators? hmmm...not so much)
All the best -- P la P
O.M.G.! C-A-R-Y G-R-A-N-T That had to be Heaven on Earth... What do he say? Can you remember? How fun re Provence. Perhaps you'd like to do a guest post here re your highlights...that would be super! Thanks for your comment. Wait, what did you say? Oh, yes, Cary Grant!! ;)
ReplyDeleteLOL -- you're wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI was 18 at a dude ranch in Wyoming. CG and his family were there as well as my family. My grandmother was the "grand dame" of the ranch so he paid her a visit for lunch one day. I heard about this but felt it was too forward to go in a sit w/ them so I turned to my friend Heather and said, it's chilly out but there's lots of sun on the patio outside the dining room and I want to read you some hilarious passages out of this book I just got. The book was one given to me by this same grandmother and boy howdy did it have lots about how to be a wily, over feminized doormat of a wife and I thought it was a hoot.
So Heather and I go do just that, and what do you know but the one and only Cary Grant exited the dining JUST as I was reading my absolute favorite portion, so I made sure to project my voice. Cary Grant started to curve his trajectory my way. By the time I finished the passage, he knelt down in front of me and Heather and said that was interesting -- how about if you read some more?
Dumb me I said Oh I think it would be more fun if YOU do a little reading with that awesome voice
He handled the book a bit and asked some questions about it and about us. Chit chat for about 2 minutes. He may have mentioned that he did readings in bookstores (or was that later in his life?). He was of course very genial and dashing.
I was particularly charmed at the role intuition can play in one's life -- from time to time. I think it was that same summer that I found 3 4-leaf clovers in one day.
I may have to take you up on that guest blogging ;-) But I doubt I can say a solid yes until I'm in the situation. Thanks for the thought - very flattering.
Wow! What a wonderful story! He was the epitome of a lovely, magical man. Let me know re the guest blogging when you return. Would be fun to hear your first person experience a la Provence! Maybe you'll run into Brad, he lives there. ;)
ReplyDeleteBrad -- LOL funny. Maybe if I am/we are/ lucky I'll catch up with some old family friends, however, in Lyons, Gordes, Opio and those special places you have documented. Let's see how things shake out. I can't WAIT to see the Calanques !
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to read about it! Angelina/Brad live in Brignoles just above the Calanques....!
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