Meeting Benches World art in all forms
ALTHOUGH SO FRAGILE Although so fragile and so short love, blood has too young this girl, to burn poems spring. (Akiko Yosano)
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JACQUES CALLOT (1592/1635), FRENCH ARTIST: Master of the graver, with shades of grotesque and gallantry
TOUSSAINT DUBREUIL (1561/1602), FRENCH PAINTER: Highly elongated and undulating forms, same shades of the work of painter Primaticcio
JEAN FOUQUET (1420/1481), FRENCH PAINTER: Paintings on wood and miniatures, with Italian backgrounds
ANGUISH: Poetry, by Stéphane Mallarmé
ANGUISH I do not come tonight for your body, or the beast that the sins of a nation, accept, or stir up in your impure hair a sad storm, under the tedium incurable pouring my kiss. I ask you to read the heavy sleep without dreams, hovered under the veil of secret remorse, and that you can enjoy after your …
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YOU ARE LIKENESS: Poetry, by Paul Eluard
YOU ARE LIKENESS Do you lie: water unfolds. You are the water diverted by eddies, are the earth that takes root, and where everything is based do bubbles of silence in the silence of the roars. Singing hymns of night rainbow ropes. You’re everywhere Abolish every street. You sacrifice the time to youth eternal flame exact, which veils the …
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FRANCESCO PRIMATICCIO (1504/1570), ITALIAN PAINTER: Shades of Parmigianino, to the Court of Fontainebleau
TIMELESS BOOKS, To Kill a Mockingbird: The existential shades of a childhood, in a sleepy Southern town
Compassionate, dramatic, and moving. To Kill A Mockingbird – a novel by Harper Lee – takes readers to the roots of human behavior – to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. The existential shades of this novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town, and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, became both …
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ALL LETTERS OF LOVE: Poetry, by Fernando Pessoa
ALL LETTERS OF LOVE All love letters are ridiculous. Would not be love letters if they were not ridiculous. I also wrote in my time love letters, like the others, ridiculous. Love letters, if there is love, must be ridiculous. But after all, only those who have never written love letters are ridiculous. I wish it were still the time …
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MOON: Poetry, by Hai Zi
MOON Chimney smoke up and down. The moon is a white ape digging a well. The moon is a white ape smiling wanly on the river how many times blood trickles out of the sky. The white ape flows past a bell tower. The moon is a white ape smiling wanly. The moon breaks its own heart (Hai Zi) http://www.amazon.com/Autumn-Rooftops-English-Chinese-Edition/dp/0924047763 …
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ROSSO FIORENTINO (1494/1540), ITALIAN PAINTER: Master in oil and fresh, belonging to the Florentine school.
EUGENE DELACROIX (1798/1863), FRENCH PAINTER: Visual effects and symbolic nuances of romance
AGNOLO BRONZINO (1503/1572), ITALIAN PAINTER: The clever and incisive master of the Medici court in Florence
THE HAPPY SUN IS SHINING: Poetry, by Fernando Pessoa
THE HAPPY SUN IS SHINING The happy sun is shining, the fields are green and joyful, but my poor heart is pining for something far away. It is pining just for you, it is pining for thy kiss. It does not matter if you’re true to this. What matter is just you. I now the sea is beaming under the …
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