Hans Baluschek, Train station, 1904 Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It’s a novel, just a fictitious narrative. Littré says so, and he’s never wrong. …
Amedeo Modigliani, The Blue eyed Boy, 1916 Turbini di cranio fessi, lancinanti lampi nascosti tra le tende, le stanze disegnate mi portano all’infanzia malata, ancora viva (limitrofi ritmi e profumi opulenti, non c’è passato) la fionda dell’esistenza è un silenzio fatale. Do you know this poem in English? Please contact me Go back to album …
Giambattista Tiepolo, The Immaculate Conception, 1769 Accostandosi le ciglia lentamente, quasi senza voce mi chiudono nelle mani esangui una perla. Non trovo più dolore, nient’altro vedo che sommità celesti. Do you know this poem in English? Please contact me Go back to album – Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Henri Le Sidaner, Snow in the moonlight, 1903 Nothingness, emptiness, redundant tones (eyelid vainly move, there are no tears or baggage to doze on). Once more I dream about the old wintry city and foams, gust of wind, snow and tangy fire. This pale color bothers me, but even more the faces oppressed by fumes …
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Little Rose of Lyme Regis, 1895 Il corpo confuso nei rami della calma e intorno rumori stentati. C’è una bambina in fondo, accanto al caminetto acceso, è seduta su una strana sedia, e non parla, non piange ma muove la testa in cerca di suoni vorrei consigliarvi di uscire, averne il …
Konstantin Makovsky, Girl in burnous, 1870 I’d like to be there while you dry your cheeks, bow your head whilst I’m standing, but we don’t need anymore – for once in a lifetime – to look at something useless, something that should be cruel for its own sake. I’d like you to unavoidably become aware …
Louis-Ferdinand Celine – Mi piacerebbe esserci / I’d like to be there Read More »
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