Anthony van Dyck, Self-Portrait with a Sunflower, c. 1632 Bring me the sunflower so I can transplant it here in my own field burned by salt-spray, so it can show all day to the blue reflection of the sky the anxiety of its golden face. Darker things yearn for a clarity, bodies fade and exhaust …
Eugenio Montale – Bring Me the Sunflower / Portami il girasole Read More »
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Summer, 1573 To spend the afternoon, absorbed and pale, beside a burning garden wall; to hear, among the stubble and the thorns, the blackbirds cackling and the rustling snakes. On the cracked earth or in the vetch to spy on columns of red ants now crossing, now dispersing, atop their miniature heaps. To …
Eugenio Montale – Meriggiare pallido e assorto / To Spend the Afternoon Read More »
Andrea Mantegna, The Agony in the Garden, c.1460 Again and again I have seen life’s evil: it was the strangled brook, still gurgling, it was the curling of the shriveled leaf, it was the fallen horse. I have known no good except the miracle that reveals the divine Indifference: it was the statue in the …
George Grosz, John the Sex Murderer, 1918 Florence down below was a whirlpool of lights of muted tremors on wings of fire the long fleeting noises of the streetcar soared: the monstrous sluggish river glistened like a scaly serpent. Over an uncertain circle the restless mocking faces of the thieves, and I among the double …
Dino Campana – Hoodlum Nocturne/Notturno Teppista Read More »
Edward Hopper, The Lee Shore, 1941 The sails the sails the sails that crack and lash in the gale that with vain sequences swells the sails the sails the sails! That weave and weave: changeable wails that the wave that subsides hides in the changeable wave… In the last cruel crash… The sails the sails …
Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti, La Sacra di S. Michele, 1830 The old castle that laughs serenely up there the melodious valley where the blue river that broken and roaring at time sings an epic winds and rests serenely in wide pools of blue: life and dream that at the bottom of the mystical valley stir the …
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