Art · Reflection
GLENN GOULD ~ ON BEING AN ARTIST
“If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing” ― Glenn Gould
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MODEL IN A PURPLE HAT ~ EDOUARD VUILLARD
Model in a Purple Hat Edouard Vuillard – 1912
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EDOUARD VUILLARD ~ THE NABIS
Three Women on a Sofa at Clos Cézanne, Vaucresseon Edouard Vuillard – circa 1921
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GRIGORY GLUCKMANN ~ THE DRESSING ROOM
A painting I love! Grigory Gluckmann, (Russia, 1898-1973) The Dressing Room
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JEAN COCTEAU ~ A SURREAL THOUGHT
“Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.” ― Jean Cocteau Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) 1955 in his apartment
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THE TOLSTOY FAMILY ~ A LIFE IN PICTURES
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Count Lev Tolstoy and his Wife Countess Sophia Tolstoy At Home in Tolstoy’s Study, 1907
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SILENT WOOD ~ POEM BY ELIZABETH SIDDAL
O silent wood, I enter thee With a heart so full of misery For all the voices from the trees And the ferns that cling about my knees. In thy darkest shadow let me sit When the grey owls about thee flit; There will I ask of thee a boon, That I may not faint
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GIORGIO DE CHIRICO ~ THE MYSTERY OF OUR MINDS
“Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.” Giorgio de Chirico Painting is by Giorgio de Chirico, Melancolia, 1912
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ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE ~ HAPPY VALENTINES DAY
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY ♥ The Kiss Konstantin Somov – 1914
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GIORGIO MORANDI ~ CONSCIOUSNESS, UNCONSCIOUSNESS…
I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that… the objective world… never really exists as we see and understand it… has no intrinsic meaning of its own, such as the meanings that we attach to it. Giorgio Morandi (1890 – 1964) G
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JULES BRASSAI ~ ON THE EXTRAORDINARY
“I don’t invent anything. I imagine everything… most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary.” Jules Brassai
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JAVIER ALISTE ~ PAINTER OF MAGICAL SUBCONSCIOUSNESSES
The artist Javier Aliste searches for the syncretism of our current cultural identity. To find his answers he has been researching the Andean world and the idiosyncrasies of the Amazonian people since 1997. In his work of art he uses sacred chromatic and sacred symbolism, which i
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