Monday, 28 December 2020
Mario DiGirolamo (1934 - 2019)
Painting by the Tiber, Rome, Italy, 1956
Countyard Scene, Rome, 1956
Beach Sandals'Soles, Italy, 1957
Blackcat in Lablo, Italy, 1961
Lady in Waiting, Vallecorsa, Italy, 1962
After the rain, on the Arno edge, Florence, Italy, 1964
The Sentinel, Italy, 1961
Mother's Love ( No matter who you are )
Madonna and Child, 1945, Louis Le Brocquy HRHA (1916 - 2012)
- Oil on gesso primed hardboard -
Sunday, 27 December 2020
Tuesday, 15 December 2020
Hugging
New York City, 1942, Helen Levitt
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”More than kisses touches mingle souls”
(Original - "More than kisses, letters mingle souls" by John Donne (1572 - 1631)
Dreaming
Moravia, 1942, Jan Lukas
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“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
― Edgar Allan Poe
― A.A. Milne
Monday, 14 December 2020
Exception
Kochanica Diabła / Dear Devil, Stefan Mrożewski (1894 - 1975)
- Woodcut, Esparto Paper -
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Whether it good or evil, beautiful or ugly, I tend to like ’Exception’
Scent of ...
Apple Perfume, 1911, Charles Courtney Curran. American (1861 - 1942)
- Oil on Canvas -
- Oil on Canvas -
“A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. ”
― Christian Dior
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” 女性の香りは、手書きの文字以上にその人を語る ”
ー クリスチャン・ディオール
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“French women choose a scent when they’re girls and use it until they’re grandmothers. It becomes their trademark.
'Ah,' he murmurs in the dark theater, 'Giselle is here tonight!'
― Joan Crawford. 'My Way of Life'
”フランスの女性たちは子供の頃に「自分の香り」を選んで、おばあさんになるまでそれを使うの。それが彼女のトレード・マークになるのね。
男性は真っ暗な劇場の中で「おお、今夜ジゼルはこの劇場に来ている！」と呟くの。”
男性は真っ暗な劇場の中で「おお、今夜ジゼルはこの劇場に来ている！」と呟くの。”
ージョーン・クロフォード
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ディオールの言葉を借りるなら、
くだものの香りは、何よりも、その果実の質を語っていると言えるだろう。
ジョーン・クロフォードはこれに続けて、「でもわたしは、女性は歳を重ねるごとに自分の香りを変えた方がいいと思うわ」と言っている。
女性はそれでよくても、果実の香りは、いつまでもわたしたちの子供の頃の記憶と同じであってほしいと願う・・・
ディオールの言葉を借りるなら、
くだものの香りは、何よりも、その果実の質を語っていると言えるだろう。
ジョーン・クロフォードはこれに続けて、「でもわたしは、女性は歳を重ねるごとに自分の香りを変えた方がいいと思うわ」と言っている。
女性はそれでよくても、果実の香りは、いつまでもわたしたちの子供の頃の記憶と同じであってほしいと願う・・・
Sunday, 13 December 2020
Can’t take my eyes off of you...
Paris, 1950, Maico Barneveld
” Two persons, looking each other in the eye, see not their eyes but their looks. ”
─ Robert Bresson
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” 眼と眼を見つめ合っているふたりは、眼ではなく、視線を見ているのだ。”
─ ロベール・ブレッソン
─ ロベール・ブレッソン
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859 - 1923)
LE BAISER, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859 - 1923)
- OIl on Canvas -
Le Baiser, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859 - 1923)
Saturday, 12 December 2020
Jean Jacques Henner (1829 - 1905)
Head study of a girl
- Oil on Canvas -
- Oil on Canvas -
Nymph at the Spring Water, Jean Jacques Henner (1829 - 1905)
- Oil on Canvas -
Long lasting company
“Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice
Dog can be our forever friends...
Thursday, 26 November 2020
In the cold weather...
Erster Schnee (View from the photographer's studio, Munich-Schwabing), ca 1950, Hrebert List (1903 - 1975)
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“It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.”
ー George Eliot
Garden and Books
Garden scene, Carl Larsson (1853 - 1919)
- Watercolor -
” If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ”
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC - 43 BC
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もしあなたが庭と図書館を持っていたら、あなたにとって必要なすべてを持っていることになる。
キケロ
母のためにあるような言葉だ。
そしてこの言葉に深く頷く者はわたしの友だ
・・・友・・・
なんと遠い言葉、遠い存在か・・・
September Song...
Sunset at Zandvoort, ca 1952, Kees Scherer
” It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
— Gabriel García Márquez
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”いまこの瞬間、あなたとわたしが確かに存在していること、それで充分ではないか ”
ー ガルシア・マルケス
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Oh, it's a long, long time, from May to December
But the days grow short when you reach September
When the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame
And I haven't got time for the waiting game
Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few
September, November
And these few precious days I'll spend with you
These precious days I'll spend with you ...
'September Song' © Maxwell Anderson & Kurt Weill
Song by Bing Crosby and many of singers
But the days grow short when you reach September
When the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame
And I haven't got time for the waiting game
Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few
September, November
And these few precious days I'll spend with you
These precious days I'll spend with you ...
'September Song' © Maxwell Anderson & Kurt Weill
Song by Bing Crosby and many of singers
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Symbolistic scene with two black birds fighting for the soul of a young woman, 1942, Gertrud (e) Honzatko-Mediz (1893 - 1975) - Oil on Paper, Laminated on Canvas -
As for theme, Fighting Black (= Evil) and White (= Innocence ) is kind of corny to me.
My soul doesn't pure nor innocent. However this painting is beautiful to me.
Hipólito Hidalgo de Caviedes (1902 - 1994)
Del Moral (Half-figure female nude with four male hands
- Mixed Media -
Gallina negra / Black hen, 1960
- Acrylic on Cardboard -
Monday, 23 November 2020
Friday, 9 October 2020
Monday, 21 September 2020
We have only come to look
Paris Door, July 29, 1984, André Kertész
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Only you
Don't know what to make of the sudden slippiness,
The blind, white, awful, inaccessible slant.
There's no getting up it by the words you know.
No getting up by elephant or wheel or shoe.
We have only come to look.
New Year On Dartmoor (1962) - Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)
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急につるつるになった世の中を理解できないのはきみだけ。
目鼻が無くて、真っ白で、おそろしい、近づきがたい斜面の世界。
この世界を、きみにわかる言葉を使って組み立ててみせるのは不可能だ。
ゾウや、車輪や、靴の片割れなんぞで作り上げられるものじゃない。
わたしたちはただ見に来ただけ。
シルヴィア・プラス －「ダートムーアの新年」より
吉原幸子 皆見昭 訳
From a depth
Venetian Twilight, 1896, Walter Launt Palmer (1854 - 1932)
- Watercolor, Gouache, and Crayon on Composition board -
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“ I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
― Anaïs Nin
”わたしは人魚になるべきだわ。深い海の底に恐怖は感じない。むしろ浅瀬の、上辺の生を怖れるの。”
ー アナイス・ニン
Saturday, 19 September 2020
That Day That Summer...
Carbonia, Cagliari, 1950, Federico Patellani. Italian (1911 - 1977)
” We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten ”
Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950)
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” 私たちはかつての日々を憶えてはいない。私たちが思い出せるのは瞬間瞬間だけだ。
人生の真の豊かさは私たちが忘れてしまった思い出の裡に眠っている。”
チェーザレ・パヴェーゼ
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If I had to choose just one day
To last my whole life through
It would surely be that Sunday
The day that I met you
Newborn whippoorwills were calling from the hills
Summer was a-coming in but fast
Lots of daffodils were showing off their skills
Nodding all together, I could almost hear them whisper
"Go on, kiss her, go on and kiss her"
If I had to choose one moment
To live within my heart
It would be that tender moment
Recalling how we started
Darling, it would be when you smiled at me
That way, that Sunday, that summer
"That Sunday That Summer" © George David Weiss and Joe Sherman
Song by Nat 'King' Cole (1963)
Side by side ....
Two sisters, 1610-1615, Cornelis de Vos. Flemesh (ca 1584 - 1651)
Untitled (Portrait of Two Girls), 1907, Rudolf Duhrkoop. Germany (1848 - 1918)
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