AuraGem's Painterly Songlines: Sweden

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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Dancing Elves

Älvalek or Dancing Elves (1866) by August Malmström (1829-1901) ~ Sweden
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Pale landscapes
Powdered with
Ancient
Sombre
Sleeping light
Sprayed with a
Luminous
Bouquet of
Rushing springs
Etching
A heart-shaped
Fairy ring

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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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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Dancing Elves