Meeting Benches World art in all forms
GIORGIO DE CHIRICO (1888/1978), ITALIAN PAINTER – Enigmatic architecture, immersed in the pictorial transcendence
ROMANTIC INTERPRETATION OF CLASSICAL – Giorgio de Chirico varnished oil tempera, for nature and portraits full of warm colors
GIORGIO DE CHIRICO 1/4 – The man who will become Italian painter, was born in Greece on a summer day. The artist who will become the leading exponent of the Italian metaphysical painting, the creator of paintings extremely enigmatic, studied in Athens, Florence, Monaco, Germany and Paris, knowing the German pictorial symbolism and Gauguin. GIORGIO DE CHIRICO 2/4 – Squares …
Read More »WEAPONS THE DEVIL – Novel, by Marco Scardigli and Andrea Santangelo
Imagine you’re in Pavia, back in the year 1525. Imagine seeing a king of France won and humiliated. Imagine the outcome of that battle are the result of technological innovation. Fine. Reading this novel, you will not need imagination, because you will know many things of the distant month of February, well described. Lanzichenecchi and purveyor, two monarchies that are …
Read More »GRLICE – Poetry, by Kajetan Kovič
GRLICE Nekje so me pokopali. Ne spominjam se več nobenega grma, nobene zvezde, ne morja in ne tišine. Med kládivi in kolesi, med bati in računali samo še ribe in grlice včasih še jočejo. Telo razgrebem, ogenj prižgem, da se ob njem ogrejejo njihove ranjene glave, njihove ranjene glave. GRLICE Somewhere I was buried. I do not remember no bush, …
Read More »ZORAN MUSIC (1909/2005), SLOVENE PAINTER – To know himself so well, to be able to describe itself inside, even by painting horses
THE INTROSPECTIVE PAINTING OF ZORAN MUSIC – Painting to listen, made of emotional nuances, memory and emotion
ZORAN MUSIC 1/4 – He – the painter of small horses, the man who assimilate Italian, Slavic and German cultures – was born in a winter day in a small Slovenian village. He attended the Academy of Art in Zagreb. He travels a lot, until the landing most of his life, the one with the woman who will be his …
Read More »WITHOUT LINES OR GEOMETRIC POINTS – Painting with splashes of color: the Italian Macchiaioli, between the nineteenth and twentieth century
A pictorial movement which experienced a short creative horizon, between eight hundred and nine hundred. That renewal was anti-academic, and it was a form of expression of Italian painting in the realist sense. The creativity of the Macchiaioli is realistic, and is firmly opposed to Romanticism and academic Purism. The Macchiaioli, believe that the image of the real is a …
Read More »MACCHIAIOLI – When the image of the real is a contrast of color spots and light and dark
SO DEAR AND MUCH ONESTY SHE APPEARS – Poetry by Dante Alighieri
TANTO GENTILE E TANTO ONESTA PARE > Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare la donna mia quand’ella altrui saluta, ch’ogne lingua deven tremando muta, e li occhi no l’ardiscon di guardare. Ella si va, sentendosi laudare, benignamente d’umiltà vestuta; e par che sia una cosa venuta da cielo in terra a miracol mostrare. Mostrasi sì piacente a chi la mira, …
Read More »SILVESTRO LEGA (1826/1895), ITALIAN PAINTER – Inspiration descriptive, between naturalism and romantic feeling
