Sometimes –oftentimes, when you grow older– memories gain a new meaning. Recalled with a changed mind, they are deeply touching and revealing. Pictures help a lot with… Read more “Looking back in Awe”
Author: Li
I’m Li; an outsider and a loser, a wayfarer lost into the blizzard, but still up and walking, seeking the right path to the right place. My past is my compass; my dead ones, my guides.
No lights ahead except those that just faded out.
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As for some, more objective facts, I am Catalan, living in Catalunya (in the portion colonized and ruled by Spain). I graduated in sciences: Geology and Physics; but I’ve almost always made my living in the trade of fine arts and antiques, stamps, old books. I am a book and stamp collector myself, and a deep lover of classical music -and so, a collector of recordings as well.
Edward Hopper (XVI) – Pulling us inside the painting
Compartment C, Car 293 (1938) A train compartment, a lone woman, reading by a window, the sight of a bridge, a mixture of artificial light with that… Read more “Edward Hopper (XVI) – Pulling us inside the painting”
Lovely Paintings Revisited #2
John Maler Collier – Lady Godiva – 1898 Once more I have chosen an academic neoclassical panting for this incipient series. Not that I prefer this style… Read more “Lovely Paintings Revisited #2”
My personal graphic work (2) – Whole portraits, with and without red decoys
This is how I secretly thought I would become after a few years with oestrogen and progesterone… Obviously I never did (at least not between the hips… Read more “My personal graphic work (2) – Whole portraits, with and without red decoys”
My personal graphic work – An introduction and an old sample
I have been telling, several times, I would post a few of my own drawings some day. Friends of mine have encouraged me to do it, and… Read more “My personal graphic work – An introduction and an old sample”
Franz von Stuck (II) – Views of death and horror from the Gospel
As a follow-up of my scanty selection of works by the German (Bavarian) painter Franz von Stuck (1863 – 1928) ((Find them HERE)), I have chosen a… Read more “Franz von Stuck (II) – Views of death and horror from the Gospel”
Lovely Paintings Revisited #1
Pierre Auguste Cot – Printemps (Springtime) – 1873 . [Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA – on loan from Steven and Alexandra Cohen’s coll.] I… Read more “Lovely Paintings Revisited #1”
Lovis Corinth – Three Works on Cruelty and Suffering – Samson, Cain, Christ
In a recent post with oils by Lovis Corinth: “The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (VI)”, I told he deeply changed his painting style after… Read more “Lovis Corinth – Three Works on Cruelty and Suffering – Samson, Cain, Christ”
The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (VI)
Lovis Corinth Lovis Corinth is the artistic name of German painter Franz Heinrich Louis Corinth (1858, Tapiau, Prussia – 1925, Zanvoort, The Netherlands). He studied painting in… Read more “The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (VI)”
The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (V)
Matthias Grünewald and the Isenheim Altarpiece Most paintings by the German Late Gothic–Renaissance master Matthias (or Mathis) Grünewald (ca. 1470 – 1528) lay in the bottom of the Baltic… Read more “The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (V)”
The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (IV)
Salvator Rosa – A forerruner of Romanticism Fifteen months ago I started a series of posts on this gripping and fruitful subject –one of the most depicted… Read more “The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (IV)”
