Melancholy
Posted: November 23, 2013 Filed under: Art, Painting/Drawing | Tags: alone, edvard munch, lonely, man, melancholy, munch, sad, sea, thinking Leave a comment
Melancholy. Edvard Munch. 1894-96.
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Gare Montparnasse
Posted: November 22, 2013 Filed under: Art, Painting/Drawing | Tags: 1914, bananas, chirico, departure, farewell, Gare Montparnasse, Giorgio de Chirico, Greece, Italy, melancholy, Paris, The Melancholy of Departure, train station, travel Leave a comment
Gare Montparnasse (The Melancholy of Departure). Giorgio de Chirico. 1914.
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The Melancholy of Departure
Posted: October 24, 2013 Filed under: Art, Painting/Drawing, Poetry, Writing | Tags: 1895, 1902, Chile, departure, edvard munch, farewell, German Expressionism, goodbye, melancholy, munch, Neruda, Norway, Pablo Neruda, poem, song, song of despair, The Melancholy of Departure, time, Vampire Leave a commentA Song of Despair
By Pablo Neruda
The memory of you emerges from the night around me.
The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea.
Deserted like the wharves at dawn.
It is the hour of departure, oh deserted one!
Cold flower heads are raining over my heart.
Oh pit of debris, fierce cave of the shipwrecked.
In you the wars and the flights accumulated.
From you the wings of the song birds rose
Vampire II. Edvard Munch. 1895-1902.
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Melancholia
Posted: August 22, 2013 Filed under: Art, Painting/Drawing | Tags: ambiguity, Ariadne, cityscape, Giorgio de Chirico, greek, greek mythology, italian, Melancholia, melancholy, metaphysical, modern art, Naxos, Philadelphia Museum of Art, sculpture, statue Leave a comment
The Soothsayer’s Recompense. Giorgio de Chirico. 1913.
This painting is one of a series of melancholic cityscapes that de Chirico painted featuring a lone statue in a deserted Italian piazza. The antique statue represents the sleeping Ariadne, who according to Greek mythology was abandoned by her lover on the desert island of Naxos. The confrontation of the classical world with a modern steam engine in the distance creates an uneasy ambiguity of time and space.
(From Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Melancholia. Giorgio de Chirico. 1916
Melancholy of a beautiful day. Giorgio de Chirico. 1913
