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JÁVEA-WALK FRIDAY * NEXT DATE March 1st, 2019

Explore and Learn About the History of JÁVEA by visiting its most exciting and unique monuments and museum with Spanish Fine Arts & Architecture Historian, Karla Darocas, Hons. B. A. (KarlaDarocas.com)

MEETING PLACE: Central Indoor Market * The Cafe shop La ParaetaPar at the Calle San Marco door. Beside Carniceria Mutt https://goo.gl/maps/CL6yXQMw2zM2
- Come early for your coffee.

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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...

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 t…

TRIBUTE TO TOLEDO * PART 1

TRIBUTE TO TOLEDO * PART ONE is a presentation (lecture and slideshow) about the Antiquity & Medieval history of Toledo explored through its cultural evolutions, arts and architecture. Presented by Spanish Fine Arts & Architecture Historian, Karla Darocas, Hons. B.A. (KarlaDarocas.com)

Location. Darocas Studio. Benitachell Time. 10:30 - 12:30 Fee. 10euros
About. In this presentation, you will learn about the Antiquity and Medieval evolution of Spain from its earliest tribes and cultures who inhabited the Iberian landscape and made Toledo their capital.

Students will go on a historical journey through the times of the Celts, to the Romans, Visigoths, Moors, Sephardic Jews and finally to the Catholic Monarchs. Toledo has seen it all!

The artifacts created by each culture have left their mark making Toledo one of the finest examples of a multi-cultural city.

Grand architecture, sculptures and painting will all be reviewed in this Pre-Renaissance period presentation, each telling…

TRIBUTE TO TOLEDO * PART 2 * THURS. FEB. 28th, 2019

TRIBUTE TO TOLEDO * PART TWO is a presentation (lecture and slideshow) about the Renaissance - Golden Agehistory of Toledo explored through its cultural evolutions, arts and architecture. Presented by Spanish Fine Arts & Architecture Historian, Karla Darocas, Hons. B.A. (KarlaDarocas.com)

Location. Darocas Studio. Benitachell Time. 10:30 - 12:30 Fee. 10euros
About.
Toledo came into the Renaissance like no other place in Spain with vibrant and unique displays of splendour and impressiveness.

Queen Isabella was a big part of the adventure with her personal flamboyant and ornate architectural mark upon the city, followed by a host of imperial and imposing exhibits of grandeur that persisted even after its fall as the Royal seat.

Toledo's continued its religious stronghold as a capital city and now ranks as one of the top historical monumental tourist attraction in the World.

The human imagination and classical knowledge combined to make Toledo one of the most fascinating cities t…

LECTURE AT PARADOR JAVEA ON VELAZQUEZ

Excellent gathering of Anglo-Spanish Society members to be enlightened by the brilliant artworks of the Spanish Master artist - Diego Velazquez.

Thank you to Keith Hyde for arranging this event and for hiring me to lecture. I am always delighted to share my knowledge and my love of these works of art.

There were approximately 60 fine folks at the lecture and a few of my "fans" hung around for this lovely group shot.

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.

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…

WHO WAS ANDRÉ LAMBERT WITHIN THE HISTORY OF JÁVEA ARTS?

For many of you that have gone around Jávea on my Jávea Walk, we pop into a palace named Casa Lambert, which was preserved as an arts school and community artist exhibition space by the family of the French-Swiss painter, André Lambert.

So, who was Lambert and why was he so involved with the cultural life of Jávea?

Report by Karla Darocas (KarlaDarocas.com)

André Lambert Jordán (1884-1967) was a watercolorist, painter, engraver and Swiss-French architect who lived a large part of his life in Javea. For Lambert, Jávea was a gold mine of interest and he made many art works about the place from historical buildings to the unique landscape.

André Lambert was born in Switzerland on March 17, 1884, where he studied architecture at the School of Advanced Technical Studies in Munich. Later he went on to study Fine Arts in the Bavarian capital and it was these studies that ended him in Paris around 1908.

André established his first studio in Montparnasse, later moving to the Ile St. Louis.

In …

EL GRECO * AN AFTERNOON WITH A REBEL & A GENIUS

El Greco's art is so enigmatic and different from that of his contemporaries.

He had the forsight to blend a synthesis of the art from Byzantine culture together with Western elements of visual communications.

His art spoke to the many different cultures and citizens of all social levels.

His artwork also is a reflection of his emotional struggles with married life, parenthood and the prevailing midieval social structure of authority.

El Greco reaches out to us with messages and insights that keep us engaged and enlightened.

LECTURE & SLIDESHOW - approx 90 minutes

TIME: 12:00

DAY: TUESDAY 26TH, JANUARY 2016

LOCATIONS: Darocas Studios in Benitachell

FEE: 10 euros - includes beverage
MAX ROOM SIZE: 10 persons

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"The lecture on El Greco was just as amazing .
I know little of this painter but you certainly brought him to life in your informative and lively lecture.
I look forward to adding to my knowledge of Spanish Masters as I attend other lecture…

EL GRECO'S TINY TRIBUTE TO THE FATHER OF THE SACRED FAMILY

The Flight into Egypt, ca. 1570, is a small oil painting on a prepared pine board. It is mostly a landscape representation with the sacred family as the figures within it. It demonstrates El Greco's newly acquired knowledge of the Venetian style of painting that was popular at the time due to the grand Venetian master, Titian.

Report by Karla Darocas, Hons. B. A. (KarlaDarocas.com)
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In El Greco's work, the Holy Family is depicted on their journey to Egypt, fleeing the persecution of Herod.

El Greco places the three essential characters of this story in a beautiful setting of rolling hills and the lighting suggests that it is early evening. Mary sits on a donkey, carrying her naked Child in her arms. The infant is depicted as chubby, healthy, and wriggling with curiosity as he seeks out his father.

Joseph is having to exert his bodily force in an effort to pull the hesitating donkey onto the bridge. This uncommon gesture emphasizes Joseph’s acti…

XÁBIA , JOSÉ ANTONIO BOLUFER AND HIS SHIP MYSTERY

This is a story about a small village, a large wharf, a visionary business man and his fleet and a tiny treat of dried fruit.

The Xábia wharf was finished in 1879 and all of the small fishing boats and transport barges that would normally be stranded on the beach could now properly anchor. The large size of the wharf allowed for the berthing of a variety of boats, many of them owned by the main merchants of Xábia.

Pailebot PEPE TONO. From the book Xabia Marinera. Graphic Memory
REPORT BY: Karla Darocas, Hons. B.A. Fine Arts (www.KarlaDarocas.com)

On any given day, the ships that moored in Xábia were Feluccas, a traditional Mediterranean wooden sailing boat; Jabeques, a triangular sailboat, with which one could also sail by rowing; Schooners, a type of sailing vessel with fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts; and Pailebotes, a type of sailing vessel that has had various uses: merchant , fishing or recreational yacht.

The ability to load and unload directly from land with greater spe…

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