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June 2011 - page 2

THE TANGO ~ MUSIC OF PASSION AND MALINCONIA

in The Melody of Art by

SENSUALITY IN MUSIC
THE TANGO

“A Sad thought dancing” that migrated from the brothels of Buenos Aires to the European dance halls.

Several great writers have written tango songs, but the greatest and most profound lyricist is Enrique Santos Discepolo.
The man who defined the tango as “a sad thought dancing” , “a mixture of anger, pain, faith, and absence” sings of love, death and paradise lost in radically pessimistic poems that express the despair of the thirties, that “infamous decade” where hopes of democracy gave way to coups l’etat and electoral fraud.

Faced with stattered dreams, “All is a lie, nothing is love/the world buggers you about as it turns.” Love is always at punishment: “Why was I thought to love/If to love is to cast all your dreams into the sea”.

Painting
Kees Van Dongen [1877 – 1968]
Tango or Tango of the Archangel
1922 – 1935

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TURGENJEV ~ ON POETS

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

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

Ivan Turgenjev

Painting

Portrait of Turgenjev by Ilja Repin

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Books and Happiness

BOOKS AND HAPPINESS

  “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.” Anonymous Girl Reading

ANTONI GAUDI ~ ON CREATION

in Passion Of Art by

The creation continues incessantly through the media of man.

But man does not create…he discovers. Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

Copiers do not collaborate. Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

Antoni Gaudi

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet 25 June 1852 – Barcelona , 10 June 1926) was a Spanish Catalanarchitect and the best-known representative of Catalan Modernism.  Gaudí’s works are marked by a highly individual style and the vast majority of them are situated in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, including his magnum opus, the Sagrada Familia.

Photo Stefan Cruysberghs

Sagrada Familia Barcelona

FERNAND KHNOPFF ~ MY HEART IS CRYING

in Art & the Unconscious Mind by

“Mon coeur pleure d’autrefois” 1889 by Fernand Khnopff
Belgian 1858-1921

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ISAAC HAYES ~ THE LOOK OF LOVE

in The Art of Music by

My love, you got the look of love love love

I just want to feel your arms around me…

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THE MEANING OF MUSIC

“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”

AT THE OPERA…

“Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man’s faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.” ―

FRIDA KAHLO ~ ON PAINTING

in Just a bit of everything and everyone.../Passion Of Art by

“The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.”

Frida Kahlo

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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER ~ ON INTELLIGENCE

in Just a bit of everything and everyone... by

portrait_by_ludwig_sigismund_ruhl_1815

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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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,

HOPPER ~ ON GREAT ART

in Passion Of Art by

“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.”
Edward Hopper

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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,

SCHOPENHAUER ~ ON BEING AN AUTHOR

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


For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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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,

ANAIS NIN ~ ON FRIENDSHIP

in Just a bit of everything and everyone... by

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anais Nin

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