“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
Poema del Atlantico/La Noche (1917-1918 Poem of the Atlantic/Night by Nestor Martin- Fernandez de la Torre
This painting is part of the series called Poem of the Atlantic, painting of the Atlantic Ocean in various times of the day and night.
Nestor Martin (1887-1938) is the only Canaries painter, who being part of the symbolist and modernist European currents, left a major collection of work, one that is an essential part of these movements.
The first thing I did when I came to Gran Canaria was visiting Las Palmas and the wonderful Museo Nestor where one can admire Nestor’s collection of paintings. I was impressed and I still am!!! What a great painter coming from Gran Canaria…
Leda
Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)
Watercolour with gouache
c1875-c1880
21 x 34 cm
(8.27″ x 13.39″)
Gustave Moreau Museum (Paris, France)
LEDA
Come not with kisses
not with caresses
of hands and lips and murmurings;
come with a hiss of wings
and sea-touch tip of a beak
antr treading of wet, webbed, wave-working feet
into the marsh-soft belly.
DH. LAWRENCE (1885-1930)
Leda, 1865-1875
