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JÁVEA-WALK FRIDAYS - Explore and Learn About the History of JÁVEA by visiting its most exciting and unique monuments and museums.

MEETING PLACE: Central Market * Church tower end - Come early for your coffee.

TIMES: 10:30 - 13:00 finish times depends on bathroom breaks :)

FEE 10 euros: includes LECTURE & WALKING ROUTE / MAP, in case you get lost or separated from group

MAX. 5 students per group MAX

END OF WALK: Get a beverage and Q & A time...
NOTE: If you enjoy ancient artifacts then you can head back to the museum after the lecture.

PARKING in the Municipal Parking Lots...

INSTRUCTOR: Karla Darocas, Hons. B.A. Fine Arts, Educator Since 1990, Spanish Arts Historian,

REVIEWS: www.KarlaDarocas.com

ABOUT THE WALK

Javea's architecture reflects three special historical periods when wealth and prosperity produced very unique sacred and civil architecture.

We will go through the town and I will share my information about the most artistic and interesting architectural artifacts.

We will go quietly into the church and look at the craftsmanship of the alters and the polychrome statues. There is only one painting in …

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ISABELLA

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PHOTOGRAPHY FOR BEGINNERS * Wednesdays 10:00h

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THE ARCHITECTURAL AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH OF MEDIEVAL XÀBIA

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PRESENTATION: Medieval Valencian Gothic Architecture * Sacred and Civil

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TEULADA CELEBRATES THE SACRED IN FORTIFIED BAROQUE AND ICONIC ART

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MARINA ALTA REGIONAL HERITAGE REWARDS RAISINS

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DISCOVER THE PARISH CHURCHES OF THE MARINA ALTA

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GRAND TEMPLE IN CARCAIXENT HAS AMAZING STORY OF SURVIVAL

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JÁVEA-WALK FRIDAYS - Explore and Learn About the History of JÁVEA by visiting its most exciting and unique monuments and museums.

PHOTOGRAPHY FOR BEGINNERS * Wednesdays 10:00h

Don't let another day go by without discovering the power and pleasure of Photography.

In today's world where cameras are easy to access, they are even on your phones, there is no excuse not to learn the principles of photography and take memorable and beautiful photos that will bring joy for years!!

Karla Darocas has been teaching Photography since 1990. She will teach you to "see" the world as an artist. It is her goal to move you from being just a "happy snapper" to becoming a "photographer" in order to offer the world visual experiences that open the mind and enrich the heart.
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You will be given theoretical instruction via a slideshow and course notes on the principles of classical beauty, known to the world for thousands of years.

Once you are enlightened to this information, you will understand how to organise your vision to see beauty all around you and this in turn, will bring you a great amount of joy and enhance your personal well being.

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ISABELLA

Isabella of Castile was the driving force of 15th-century Spanish — and therefore European — politics. In this presentation, we will take an enlightened look at the life and time of Queen Isabella by utilizing a variety of visual artworks inspired by her achievements.

AMAZING ABSTRACT ARTIST SARAH BEATTIE CAPTURES COLOUR & ESSENCE

Scottish born Sarah Beattie is now yet another Costa Blanca artist.

Sarah has always been a creative person so it was logical that she would study interior and environmental design at Duncan of Jordan stone college in Dundee.

"I graduated with a BDES Hons in 2006," explains Sarah

When it comes to her art practice, she admits at not having any preferred style but she confirms that she likes to create abstract art!

"My work is mostly abstract landscape," she confirms. "I don't aim to create an exact scene but to capture an essence of that place, through the use of mixed media and the use of bright and contrasting colours!"

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FAMOUS ANCIENT VALENCIANOS - Peter Paschal

Peter Paschal was born in Valencia on Spain’s east coast in the year 1227. Peter’s parents were devout Mozarabs (Iberian Christians) who lived under Muslim rule, paying a yearly tax known as a jizyah. The Mozarabs and the Muslim Arabs co-existed and even spoke a similar language known as Mozarabic.

PRESENTATION: Medieval Valencian Gothic Architecture * Sacred and Civil

Valencian Gothic architecture is an artistic style with its own characteristics. It can only be called Gothic by convention and chronology because it didn't develop with the same constructive techniques nor participate in the same aesthetic assumptions.

It was developed during the 14th century and reached its maturity and maximum expression in the 15th century. It occurred in the Kingdom of Valencia, held by the crown of Aragon, born out of conquered Muslim territory.

After the conquest, the Valenician kingdom was left out of political problems of the Crown and hence flourished in agriculture, craftsmanship and trade commercialism aided by its easy access to the Mediterranean and an expert submissive Moorish workforce.

Throughout the fifteenth century, urban and rural growth was supported by influential people determined to promote their wealth with sacred and civil grandeur. King Alfonso V and the family of Rodrigo de Borja, then Pope Alejandro VI, were eager to advance the Valen…

TEULADA CELEBRATES THE SACRED IN FORTIFIED BAROQUE AND ICONIC ART

The Hermitage of San Vicente Ferrer is a sacred, solid seaside shelter located near the main entrance to the village of Teulada. It is one of the many regional sacred structures that in the 18th century benefited from Juan de Ribera's era of Catholic temple refresh during the religious climate of the Counter-Reformation.
Unlike other sacred structures built on Roman or Arab temple foundations, this hermitage was built from the ground up around 1767.

REPORT BY: Karla Darocas, Hons. B.A. Fine Arts (www.KarlaDarocas.com)
The Hermitage of San Vicente Ferrer is perfectly symmetrical. It has a white plastered, south facing façade with a square "tosca" or sandstone portal. The door is a fortified tin with geometric patterns suggesting the cross between the Herrerian style squares and rectangles and the Baroque oval. There are fortified windows on each side of the door.
Above the door is a rectangular window for light to the choir with a leaded image of the patron saint, but no…

WATCH * 3D ANIMATION OF GALATEA OF THE SPHERES * A DALI PORTRAIT

Dali's passion for the sciences, as a way to express mysticism, comes into full vision in this mesmerizing painting - Galatea of the Spheres from 1952. It represents a synthesis of Renaissance art and atomic theory and illustrates the suspension of matter, the spheres themselves representing atomic particles.

THE CLASSICS OF THE COLLECTION - VALENCIA'S FINE ARTS MUSEUM

LECTURE OVERVIEW : Valencia's Fine Arts Collection - the most important in Spain.
- the architecture of the museum building, portal and dome - the most important Renaissance courtyard of the 16th century, owned by ambassador Vich and preserved at the museum. - Valencian Gothic alters and polychromes - magnificent collection - The most prestigious Valencian master artists such as Vicente López, Juan de Joanes, Jacomart, Joan de Joanes, Francisco and Juan Ribalta, Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa, José de Ribera and others. - Grand Spanish masters from Sevilla and Madrid like Diego Velázquez, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Francisco de Goya. **

REMEDIOS VARO * WELCOME TO HER MAGICAL WORLD

Remedio Varo (16 December 1908 – 8 October 1963) was a Spanish-Mexican para-surrealist and symbolist painter and feminist anarchist. An extremely talented intellectual artist and incredible draftswoman too!
Born in Girona, Spain in 1908, she studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid.

During the Spanish Civil War she fled to Paris where she was greatly influenced by the surrealist movement. She met her second husband, the French surrealist poet Benjamin Péret, in Barcelona. She was forced into exile from Paris during the German occupation of France and moved to Mexico City at the end of 1941.

She died in 1963, at the height of her career, from a heart attack, in Mexico City.

REVIEWS
"The lecture on Remedios Varo was extremely informative and very well presented in a lively, easy to understand way.
Karla is a great communicator who inspires her audience. Karla's teaching style is casual, lively and packed with information and I would definitely recomme…

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