Friday, December 30, 2011

é um novo dia


é um novo dia,
é um novo ano,
é um novo começo,
outra oportunidade de fazermos bem
as coisas,
que acabarão feitas...bem ou mal, mal ou bem

é um novo dia.

Italia






um blog interessante :
http://www.progettoqd-home.blogspot.com/

old and wise


Wednesday, December 28, 2011

HOME


Home is where your journey begins.

Turner, Margate, Tracey Emin...and thanks to the BBC.

instant classic

die anderen

‚fragments’, 2011, 105 x 51 x 19 cm

all here :
http://www.reinhardvoss.de/html/die_anderen/die_anderen_11.html

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

agora mesmo...


...um raio de sol visitou-me.

I want this also

“Your body that includes everything
you have done, you have had done
to you and goes beyond it

This is not what I want
but I want this also.”

-
Margaret Atwood, from “Circe/Mud Poems” in Selected Poems, 1965-1975

Friday, December 23, 2011

Christmas sunrise


It’s always exhilarating to attend sunrise…and today I did get to live it.
After the swift subway ride I'm walking up my street, it’s the last working day before Christmas and I feel great, such a nice day, such a nice season, such a reinvigorating chilly wind…
As I walk I notice the cardboards and the blankets hidden at the corners and unused entrances of office buildings, I try to guess which locations are better to avoid the wind, which are cozier to go through the night, then again I think it’s never us, never us…or is it ?

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Mágico Mineiro


Lea e Maura, Alberto Guignard, 1940

para bom entendedor...


Anton Tchekov por Nikolay Tchekov

Dizia a minha avó : "- Para bom entendedor meia palavra basta..."

Monday, December 19, 2011

Obrigado


Mais um ano que está quase a acabar...apesar de tudo esta imagem parece-me correcta : Obrigado.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

La acróbata de la bola

Picasso. La acróbata de la bola. 1905. Oil on canvas, 175 x 124 cm. © The State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. © Sucesión Pablo Picasso. VEGAP. Madrid, 2011.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

St. Sebastian



Perugino, Pietro (1448-1523)

Bust of St. Sebastian
Date: 1493-1494

Friday, November 25, 2011

esqueci-me de ti...


Como poderia eu esquecer-me de ti ? Eu esqueci-me, apenas isso, eu esqueci-me de mim...

Friday, November 18, 2011

Falling


Falling


I watch the falling leaves and wonder why

women look so pretty in the morning,

I climb too many steps

come in tired to work, lose purpose

read news, send music to special friends

I write words like leaves

fallen from a tree…



Thursday, November 10, 2011

Blue Horses

Die Grossen Blauen Pferde/ The Large Blue Horses
Oil on Canvas

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

rouge


so this is his real name...


Remember, remember the fifth of November,

The gunpowder, treason and plot,

I know of no reason

Why gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot

Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, ’twas his intent

To blow up the King and Parliament.

Three score barrels of powder below,

Poor old England to overthrow;

By God’s providence he was catch’d

With a dark lantern and burning match.

Holloa boys, holloa boys, make the bells ring.

Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!

Hip hip hoorah!

A penny loaf to feed the Pope.

A farthing o’ cheese to choke him.

A pint of beer to rinse it down.

A faggot of sticks to burn him.

Burn him in a tub of tar.

Burn him like a blazing star.

Burn his body from his head.

Then we’ll say ol’ Pope is dead.

Hip hip hoorah!

Hip hip hoorah hoorah!

japanese



A Blessing

A Blessing
By James Wright 1927–1980

Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota,
Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass.
And the eyes of those two Indian ponies
Darken with kindness.
They have come gladly out of the willows
To welcome my friend and me.
We step over the barbed wire into the pasture
Where they have been grazing all day, alone.
They ripple tensely, they can hardly contain their happiness
That we have come.
They bow shyly as wet swans. They love each other.
There is no loneliness like theirs.
At home once more,
They begin munching the young tufts of spring in the darkness.
I would like to hold the slenderer one in my arms,
For she has walked over to me
And nuzzled my left hand.
She is black and white,
Her mane falls wild on her forehead,
And the light breeze moves me to caress her long ear
That is delicate as the skin over a girl’s wrist.
Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom.

James Wright, “A Blessing” from Above the River: The Complete Poems and Selected Prose. Copyright � 1990 by James Wright. Reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press.

Source: Above the River: The Complete Poems and Selected Prose (1990)

pintado do natural

The Virgin and Child
by Leonardo da Vinci
(follower of)
Date Painted: after 1510
Oil on wood, 59.7 x 43.8 cm
Collection: The National Gallery, London



"...O retrato pintado do natural regressa com o Renascimento, mesmo em imagens sagradas que antes se executavam de imaginação, como continuava aliás a fazer-se seguindo "certa idea che mi viene alla mente", como dizia Rafael. A ideia, a imaginação, a memória, "sem que a mão seja guiada por uma verdade observada" (Arikha).

"Quando se deixa guiar pela observação, a mão põe-se à prova do inacessível que se encontra do outro lado, na parte oposta ao eu; e esse outro lado só é acessível por tentativas, capta-se eventualmente por entre a incerteza e opera sem se saber exactamente como, mas deixando-se levar pelo fulgor do olhar. A arte baseada na observação criam-na, sem a priori e sem apoios, o olhar e a mão a partir do natural, ou seja, "sur le motif", como dizia Cézanne. O seu objectivo não é decorar, como o ornamento, nem documentar, como a imagem, já que nasce de uma necessidade profunda de reter o vivido."

"...a pintura de observação é fruto de um olhar galvanizado por uma presença que electrizará a mão que executa o traço e que configura o desenho ou a pintura. O olhar não pode galvanizar-se só mediante o imaginário ou a memória subjectiva, porque nesse caso nada electrizará a mão. O imaginário não pode proporcionar mais do que imagens, e não traços remanescentes do vivido. A imagem não é mais do que um aspecto do quadro; o outro é a pintura, a pintura do natural."
Avigdor Arikha

encontrado aqui : http://alexandrepomar.typepad.com/alexandre_pomar/2011/11/pintura-de-observa%C3%A7%C3%A3o.html

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

sem titulo

Um dia olhas no espelho quotidiano e sabes que estás velho,
Como pode isso ter acontecido, assim de um dia para o outro ?
Ainda ontem, batias na cara sorridente depois do barbear,
Olhos brilhantes e ganas de sair, abraçar o dia…

Hoje estás velho , as peles caem sobre os olhos,
O sorriso cava vales fundos na cara e não sabes mais onde ir
Isto não levou um dia a acontecer, aconteceu um dia a seguir ao outro
E tu palerma, olhavas o espelho e nada vias…

Diz o padre para o menos padre :
“- Não interessa aquilo que tu és, padre ou não padre,
Interessam as escolhas que tu fazes e como tu as defendes…”
(sabedoria avulsa de cinema de matiné)

who's afraid


Newman-Who's_Afraid_of_Red,_Yellow_and_Blue

Em minha casa há muito tempo

Em minha casa há muito tempo, havia uma lata onde se guardavam as coisas de costura. Era uma lata bonita, decorada a dourados, mesmo na altura já um pouco desmaiados, tinha cenas nocturnas, talvez evocação de uma saída à Ópera...nem me lembro bem, mas foi assim que comecei a gostar de coisas belas e fora do meu alcance...

thousands

"For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist."

Nabokov, The Eye

found here : http://assemblage2011.tumblr.com/post/11047806512/for-i-do-not-exist-there-exist-but-the-thousands

Friday, November 4, 2011

love this

Vintage Photographs - Today’s Adventure: Ingrid Bergman is captured by Gordon Parks while making Stromboli (1949)

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Turner prize


The Back that used to be The Front, 2008
Photograph: George Shaw/Courtesy Wilkinson Gallery, London

Check out more, here :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/feb/13/art-george-shaw-in-pictures#/?picture=371659398&index=9

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

sketch

Eugène Delacroix. Sketch for the Death of Sardanapalus

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

home is where you lay your heart...



power issue

“The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don’t have any.”

~ Alice Walker
Quote shown at the beginning of “Miss Representation”

Monday, October 24, 2011

you have to be practical


"Yeah. I go to my subconsciousness. I have to go into that chaos. But the act of going and coming back is kind of routine. You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed." He laughs again. "They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical."

Murakami on writing novels
found here : http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/14/haruki-murakami-1q84?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038