LAYER Love each time whitens the soul like a room. Overlaps the previous one on the other, sull’azzurrino away with tiny flowers, come the field poppies, then the light yellow with roses. And somewhere in a corner all peels off. Petals as you browse the layers of paint, and if I tried to scratch with a fingernail, would shine in …
Read More »LANDSCAPES OF SOUTH MORAVIA – Orchards and vineyards, castles and wish to dream
Walking on the streets and trails of South Moravia, you will have the feeling of walking in Bohemia, in any place filled with Bohemian forests and hills. When you go a little further south, fertile land, orchards and vineyards will give you their welcome, from the city of Brno (place from where to places incredibly charming). Yes, do not forget …
Read More »I BELIEVE – Poetry, by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
I BELIEVE I believe in the good things and the good, I believe in friendship, I believe in love. In what is above reason, and whose origin in the world do not see, in what it has in its goal. I believe in the inspiration of the poet, I think in every heartbeat. In an eternal life and superior, in …
Read More »WHEN THE MUSIC BECOME POETRY > SAME OLD LOVE – By Selena Gomez
SAME OLD LOVE Take away your things and go You can’t take back what you said, I know I’ve heard it all before, at least a million times I’m not one to forget, you know I don’t believe, I don’t believe it You left in peace, left me in pieces Too hard to breathe, I’m on my knees Right now, …
Read More »WHEN THE MUSIC BECOME POETRY > STITCHES – By Shawn Mendes
STITCHES I thought that I’ve been hurt before But no one’s ever left me quite this sore Your words cut deeper than a knife Now I need someone to breathe me back to life Got a feeling that I’m going under But I know that I’ll make it out alive If I quit calling you my lover Move on You …
Read More »MAX ERNST (1891/1976), GERMAN PAINTER – The Surrealist of the irrational depths
THE UNPREDICTABLE MYSTERIES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS – Max Ernst, the creative able to give voice and face to the nuances of the invisible psychic
MAX ERNST 1/6 – Maximilien was born in Germany in an April day. He studied philosophy, history of art and psychiatry, but it is starting to draw, he discovered his creative vocation. Already at age 22 he exhibited his first paintings in Berlin, knowing Apollinaire and Delaunay. MAX ERNST 2/6 – A strong advocate of the artistic avant-garde, its onset …
Read More »MUSEUMS ROUTES FOR IMAGES – Florence: the Museum of the Convent of San Marco
PIAZZA SAN MARCO, FLORENCE – Visiting an old Dominican Convent, finding a wonderful museum
The building is in the heart of the city of Florence, and in the museum opens to your eyes a treasure chest of art, with the colors of Beato Angelico and Friar Bartolomeo, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Alesso Baldovinetti. From the year 1300, new rooms and new frescoes continued to embellish what was a monastery and parish church, but it was …
Read More »UNREAL REALISM – When the supernatural comes true: with Leonor Fini, at the limits of the artistic creative world
LEONOR FINI (1907/1996), ARGENTINE / ITALIAN PAINTER – An eccentric woman, star of European Surrealism
LEONOR FINI 1/6 – Born woman, in Argentina, in a summer day. Growing increasingly impatient with the conventions and fascinated by the new, devoting her life to the theater, travel and painting, but also loving – always – so desecrating. Trivially die in Paris (because of flu complications), in the heart of winter. LEONOR FINI 2/6 – Growing dispute between …
Read More »LEONORA CARRINGTON (1917/2011), ENGLISH PAINTER – Dreamlike, highly detailed compositions of fantastical creatures in otherworldly
ONE WOMAN, A POET WALKING AND PAINTS – Leonora Carrington, the woman able to change into fish and birds, by painting and writing
LEONORA CARRINGTON 1/5 – She was born in England, but lived her youth in France (with a tormented love story and a nervous breakdown), then spent nearly seventy years of her life in Mexico, where she met (becoming painter and writer), the surreal world of Horna, Gerszo and Peret, along with close friend of Remedios Varo and Bridget Bate Tichenor. …
Read More »DRINK COFFEE TOGETHER VENUS – Island of Milos, the quintessence of Greece
Milos (the most spectacular of the Cyclades islands) is a volcanic island, an extraordinary place, rich in hot springs and white villages. To understand the charm of this place, it is necessary that you observe the white houses of Plaka, when they are flooded by the sun of mid-morning. Plaka is a small town, clinging to a cliff, a place …
Read More »STORY OF A DOG TAUGHT LOYAL TO A CHILD – Novel, by Luis Sepulveda
“The flock of men afraid. I know this because I am a dog, sniffing the smell of fear. ” The narrative voice is that of a German shepherd dog, raised by the Mapuches, people living in the south of Chile, in a region called Araucania. Over there invites the author of this novel, to know the tale of this dog …
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