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April 2015 - page 2

PAINTINGS SPEAKING POETRY

in Paintings speaking Poetry by

“Thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, / In some melodious plot / of beechen green, and shadows numberless, / Singest of summer in full-throated ease.”
John Keats

Nest of the dryad
Thomas Benjamin Kennington – Date unknown

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JOHN KEATS ~ DREAMERS

“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious

JOHN KEATS ~ ON POETRY

Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ~John

WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT ~ PEASANT GIRL

in Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Victorian Avantgarde by

William Morris Hunt (1824-1879)
Peasant Girl
Oil on canvas
1852

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VLADIMIR NABOKOV ~ A GOOD BOOK

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations”

Vladimir Nabokov

Photograph of a young Nabokov with butterfly doodles by himself.

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PAUL DELVAUX ~ THE SKELETON

in Paul Delvaux ~ A Surreal Reality by

“…Through the skeleton, I represent a different kind of being in a kind of medieval mystery play which is perhaps profane, but never profanatory – the idea of sacrilege never entered my mind – it was put there by others…”

Paul Delvaux

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PAUL DELVAUX ~ A SURREAL REALITY

in Paul Delvaux ~ A Surreal Reality by

Loneliness, 1956
Paul Delvaux.

I have always wanted my colours to sing.

Paul Delvaux.

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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI ~ LOOKING AT ART

in Quoting the Artist ~ Thoughts and Thinking... by


“When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.”

Alberto Giacometti

Giacometti ~ Life Magazine

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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA ~ THE MARGINS OF SOCIETY

in Tamara de Lempicka ~ Glamour Star by

“I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don’t apply to those who live on the fringe.”

Tamara de Lempicka (16 May 1898 – 18 March 18 1980), Polish Art Deco painter.

The Dream
Tamara de Lempicka – 1927

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GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS ~ I PAINT IDEAS

in Quoting the Artist ~ Thoughts and Thinking... by

“I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man.”

George Frederick Watts (1817-1904)

Female Figure
Plaster

George Frederick Watts
The Wife of Pygmalion
1868

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Still life by Giorgio Morandi

THE SURREALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI

THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,

PAUL GAUGUIN ~ INNER POWER OF COLOR

in Quoting the Artist ~ Thoughts and Thinking... by

“Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.”
― Paul Gauguin

A Seashore (Martinique), 1887
Paul Gauguin

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CLAUDE MONET ~ THE VALUE OF THE SURROUNDING ATMOSPHERE

in Quoting the Artist ~ Thoughts and Thinking... by

‘For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life – the air and the light, which vary continuously. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.’

Claude Monet
The Seine at Port-Villez
La Seine à Port-Villez
1894

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HARUKI MURAKAMI ~ HUGE COSMIC LOVE

“Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that

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