MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN “If I threw the grass and watched the stems bend to the breeze, and the waves beat the sand, here, I thought of her, I relived the heart every step, every gesture, every word. So it would be this, love? A “mental thing” that feeds the fire of imagination and asks for help to balms memory …
Read More »JEAN CAROLUS (1814/1875) – Master of figures set within interior scenes
WIND: Poetry, by Hugo Mujica
VIENTO “Viento y las nubes if deshacen; brisa y blancas if transfiguran. Hay ecos que no son de las palabras son of aliento, no nos repiten nos convocan to escuchar decirse para lo que nos llama.” WIND “Wind and the clouds come apart; breeze and white are transfigured. There are echoes which are not of the words are …
Read More »DONATO DE’ BARDI – Shades of Gothic and Renaissance Flemish in Genoa
KAROLY BROCKY (1808/1855) – Vienna, Paris and London. Everywhere, its shades of ivory
PAUL BIVA (1851/1900) – Realistic nuances of French naturalism
IACOPO DE BARBARI (1460/1516): A painter and engraver of the Italian Renaissance, even beyond the Alps
PEDRO AMERICO – The Brazilian pupil of Ingres, Flandrin and Vernet
LOVE IMPOSSIBLE: Gustave Flaubert, by “The Sentimental Education”
LOVE IMPOSSIBLE People “down-to-earth” they say that love is madness. In reality, what happens, is that fantasy violently distorted by pleasant images, where each step brings you closer to happiness, is starkly brought back to harsh reality. (Gustave Flaubert)
Read More »GIOVANNI BALDUCCI – Keep shades of classicism century, at the end of the Renaissance
IF HERE, NOW: Poetry by Akiko Yosano
IF HERE, NOW “If here now I think back to the path of my passion, I looked like a blind man. Without fear of the dark.” (Akiko Yosano)
Read More »I GET TO KNOW ME. I DO NOT EXIST: Poetry, by Fernando Pessoa
I GET TO KNOW ME. NOT EXIST “I start to know me. I do not exist. I am the gap between what I want to be and others have done me, Or half of this range, because there is also life … I am so, so … Turn off the light, close the door and sure to have slippers noises …
Read More »WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Poetry, from “Romeo and Juliet” Act 3, Scene 2
“When you you will not be part of me, I want to cut out of your memory many small stars. Then it, the sky will be so beautiful, that all the world will fall in love of the night.” (William Shakespeare)
Read More »ALESSO BALDOVINETTI (1425/1499), ITALIAN PAINTER: Follower of Andrea del Castagno and Paolo Uccello, with their same realistic and naturalistic art
I SIT AT MY DESK: Love Poem, by Kennet Rexroth
I SIT AT MY DESK “I sit at my desk. What can I write to you? Sick with love, I long to see you in the flesh. I can only write, “I love you. I love you. I love you. “ Love cuts through my heart And tears my vitals. Spasms of longing suffocate me And will not stop.” (Kennet …
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