THE MORNING PIERCED Shovelling ashes and chunks of clinker from the fireplace, I found a bloody nail, whose suffering warmed me through the centuries. It’s cold outside. ICE AGE We were cutting logs together, planks from the demolished byre, thick blocks of books, page by page splinters shredded, bark my uncle at the saw, saint anthony, father and myself, merely …
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WITH HEADPHONES IN HEAD – David Bowie at MAMbo of Bologna, until November 13, 2016
A special museum, a structure that allows you to retrace the history of Italian art of the last half century (after World War II to the present), helping you find new ways of art experimentation. The Museum of Modern Art Mambo, is located in Via Don Giovanni Minzoni 14, in the historic center of Bologna. As for the times of …
Read More »THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN WORKS OF ART AND EVERYDAY OBJECTS – Marcel Duchamp
MARCEL DUCHAMP 1/3 – Four of the six Duchamp children became artists, but he was that born in a summer day. The French artist who broke down the boundaries between works of art and everyday objects. His irreverence for conventional aesthetic standards, led him to devise his famous ready-mades and heralded an artistic revolution. He was friendly with the Dadaists, …
Read More »RISKING CONTINUOUSLY ABSURDITY ‘- Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poetry
Lawrence Ferlinghetti is one of the greatest living poets, well-known around the world for being the protagonist of dissent and the American counterculture, since the days of the legendary beat generation. Poetry as an art that arises is devoted to the social impact of the poem and its validity as a tool of individual and collective liberation. The collection consists …
Read More »MARCEL DUCHAMP (1887/1968), FRENCH PAINTER – Besides, it’s always the others who died
THE EYES THAT KNOW SO WELL THE LIGHT – Giovanni Segantini and the Pointillism of late nineteenth century
GIOVANNI SEGANTINI 1/3 – Looking at the works of Segantini, always immersed in intense atmospheres and quiet, even today we can see that man – an Italian painter who lived in the late nineteenth century – that split the mountains, an artist who felt the power of nature. He is considered among the best painters of the Italian pointillist current …
Read More »FLY TO ME – Alda Merini Poetry
Alda Merini is an Italian poet, born in Milan in 1931. She is the youngest of three brothers, born in a family of modest economic conditions, which will have consequences, when she asks to be admitted at the high school, which does not exceed the test of Italian. She has the good fortune to meet a man named Giacinto Spagnoletti …
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RENAISSANCE MUSIC – The visual echo from a distant mirror
ITALIAN RENAISSANCE MUSIC – In Epiphania domini, Sebastiano Occhino
The most important music of the early Renaissance was composed for use by the church—polyphonic (made up of several simultaneous melodies) masses and motets in Latin for important churches and court chapels. By the end of the sixteenth century, patronage was split among many areas: the Catholic Church, Protestant churches and courts, wealthy amateurs, and music printing, all were sources …
Read More »MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / OSLO – Nasjonalgalleriet: L’Urlo, di Edvard Munch
He was a Norwegian painter, whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes (built upon some of the tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism). In 1881, Edvard Munch enrolled at the Royal School of Art and Design of Kristiania, where experimented with many styles, including Naturalism and Impressionism. Never married, he called his paintings his children, and hated to be separated from …
Read More »MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / LOS ANGELES – LACMA, County Museum of Art: The Treachery of Images, by René Magritte
René Magritte was a surrealist artist from Belgium. His reputation became well known for his various witty and thought-provoking images which are categorized as surrealism. Like the other artists and poets associated with the Surrealist movement, he sought to overthrow what he saw as the oppressive rationalism of bourgeois society. For him the painting challenges the correspondence of the image, …
Read More »MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / NEW YORK – MOMA, Museum of Modern Art New York: The Treachery of Images, by Salvador Dalì
He was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain. From an early age, Salvador Dalà was encouraged to practice his art, and would eventually go on to study at an academy in Madrid. In 1923, Dalà was suspended from the academy for criticizing his teachers and allegedly starting a riot among students over the academy’s choice of a professorship. …
Read More »NORWEGIANS THREE SHADES OF POETRY
TRACKS – Poetry, by Sigbjørn Obstfelder Death does not makes me more afraid. They get constantly so many comrades. I will find the way, quietly following their fresh tracks. BURNED SHIPS – Poetry, by Henrik Hibsen Turn the prow of the ship from the north, the gods look bright, the played tracks. The fires of lands frost went out into …
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