ANXIOUSLY STATUES “Rather choke a child in the cradle, which cradle of unfulfilled desires.” Anxious statues of blood dressed in clothes, and tied for a moment, in the first light of Trafalgar Square, quietly exchanging promises, questions, complaints and cries. Mocking slogans of forbidden love, none of them laments that they would like to be happy, dares to show himself …
Read More »WILLIAM BLAKE (1757/1827), PAINTER ENGLISH: The man to pack into two brackets, poetry and visual expression
OTTO DIX (1891/1969), German painter: Shades of crudeness, around the war, and the relationship between eros and death
GEORGE GROSZ (1893/1959), GERMAN PAINTER: The love story with shades of Cubism, Expressionism and Futurism
DREAM: Poetry, by Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
DREAM Black and hard detachment that I stand as thou. Why do you cry? Give me better to hand, promise to return in a dream. We are like two mountains, We not meet again in this world. If only, when midnight comes, you send me a greeting with the stars. (Anna Andreevna Akhmatova) http://www.amazon.it/Selected-Poems-Anna-Andreevna-Akhmatova/dp/0002710412
Read More »Natalia Sergeyevna Goncharova (1881/1962): Russian painter: The figurative tradition of her country, nuanced between impressionism and cubism
GIAMBATTISTA TIEPOLO (1696/1770): Italian Painter: The theatrical compositions, Tintoretto, Veronese and Jacopo Bassano in its colors
LIKE A FISH THAT LIVES IN THE FUND: Poetry by Sandro Zanotto
Sitting next to a tiller, to look after, you can carefully observe the banks open. Although not wanting to, you follow a track without curbstones that follow behind these waters, rotting and still, always. When the eye does not look at the banks, is a face that rises from the depths stomach, like a fish that lives at the bottom …
Read More »A FAR AWAY DAY, IN JUNE: Memories of trip to Venice
It was a day in June, the beginning of the summer of 1999. That’s for sure. Picking up some documents for my trip, I accidentally found some old receipts, not just pieces of paper, but pleasant shades of my travel memories. Six objects, six sites, they reported the freshness of my long stay in Venice. Five are in the restaurants …
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