AuraGem's Painterly Songlines: 1492

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Saturday, July 10, 2010

Once upon a butterfly...

Angel Villanueva (Mexico) ~ 1492 (2008) ~ Oil on canvas
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Cocooned heartbeat
Fragile wings
Visionary sails
Transitory eternity
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PAINTERLY THOUGHTS

The painting is complete when I feel it has a heartbeat and thereby the potential to move and inspire. ~ Arnor Bieltvedt

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen ~ Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. ~ Plutarch

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Perhaps Pablo Picasso said this, but he was quoting from Berthold Auerbach, a German novelist (1812 – 1882), who said Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. ~ Thomas Merton (American and Trappist Monk - Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Trappist, Kentucky, 1915-1968)

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Saturday, July 10, 2010

Once upon a butterfly...