Thursday, January 25

Santiago Calatrava Valls  -  July 28 1951 - Benimàmet 

is a Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stadiums, and museums, whose sculptural forms often resemble living organisms.

The Bodegas Ysios winery in Laguardia, Spain (1998–2001) was designed as a symbol of the 

Rioja  wines made by that winery. 

Built on a sloping site surrounded by vineyards, the 196-metre (643 ft) long building has an aluminum roof and a facade covered with laminated wood panels, 

alternating between convex and concave, 

with a roofline that ripples like a series of waves.

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Ajoarriero: 

Bacalao with fried with garlic, onions, peppers, tomatoes and Grilled bread 

Revuelto de setas: 

Wild mushroom and Egg tortilla 

Estofado de toro: 

bull’s tails, carrots, potatoes, bell peppers, onion, garlic, tomato sauce, red wine and saffron. 

Dessert 

Canutillos de crema Spanish style cannoli 

Pablo Picasso  - Malaga - October 25, 1881 

The fluctuating planes in a shallow space are characteristic of Analytic Cubism and the modernist emphasis on the picture surface. Nevertheless, Picasso’s violin on a wall also harkens back to trompe l’oeil board paintings, which reversed the conventions of Renaissance perspective and refused to lead the eye into a fictive middle ground or distance. The artist mixed ham-handed and virtuosic renditions of the violin, having learned from Braque artisanal techniques for faking wood with a brush and a decorator’s comb. Not by chance, Picasso included a bunch of grapes (they spill out of a wicker basket)—the symbol of deceptive illusionism since antiquity and the fruit that the Cubists drew and painted more often than any other from 1912 onward.

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