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”
Category: Li & Ari Fontrodona’s copyrighted work
Telescoped quotations – from Francis Bacon back to King Salomon
Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626), like his almost contemporary fellow philosopher Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592) was very fond of quotations. Both their main works: Bacon’s “Essays” (3… Read more “Telescoped quotations – from Francis Bacon back to King Salomon”
Portrait from Beyond
Some portraits remain in the memory no matter how long ago they were taken. To me, this is one of them. It tells me, and reminds me,… Read more “Portrait from Beyond”
Never cry wolf if you called it. Let it seize you. (Joyfully contributing to portrait the future)
This pic below is not a selfie, and it is not blurred –or not much–; it is not made in my home, either. It is part of… Read more “Never cry wolf if you called it. Let it seize you. (Joyfully contributing to portrait the future)”
L’oreneta immòbil (The motionless swallow) – A smallish great work by S. Dalí
Widely, and perhaps best, known in French as L’Hirondelle immobile, this small and delicate oil seems to be a previous partial study for a bigger painting, undeservedly much… Read more “L’oreneta immòbil (The motionless swallow) – A smallish great work by S. Dalí”
Morning Starlet, Late Night Ghost – or viceversa
Late night starlet – Early morning toy – Midday and afternoon ghost – Very stressed girl all around the clock.
Edward Hopper (X) – Some more Houses with face, mind and soul
Many paintings of houses, and buildings in general, by Edward Hopper are like portraits, in which the houses themselves hold some human attributes –while the human presence… Read more “Edward Hopper (X) – Some more Houses with face, mind and soul”
Edward Hopper (VI) – “Portraits” of houses; oils and watercolours – 1912 to 1940
–As far as I know, Edward Hopper made 724 paintings (oils and watercolours) between 1893 and 1965. Among them, there is an ostensible majority of houses, railway… Read more “Edward Hopper (VI) – “Portraits” of houses; oils and watercolours – 1912 to 1940″
A Pictorial Tribute (II) – Delvaux’s “Ari” better explained and illustrated
In a post here, and also in my sister’s blog, from past January 18th: «A Pictorial Tribute – Delvaux’s “Ari”, and a sort of family portrait» , I… Read more “A Pictorial Tribute (II) – Delvaux’s “Ari” better explained and illustrated”
A detailed ‘Soft Monster in Angelic Landscape’ (Monstre Tou en Paisatge Angèlic), by Salvador Dalí i Domènech
–A last confidence about impotence and psychological castration– Salvador Dalí’s father was a monster. Salvador Dalí i Cusí, a middle-class lawyer and notary in Figueres (a Catalan… Read more “A detailed ‘Soft Monster in Angelic Landscape’ (Monstre Tou en Paisatge Angèlic), by Salvador Dalí i Domènech”
Antonio López García – Humbly drawing great art out of a dirty bathroom
Spain is not my country, nor my parents’ and grandparents’ and any elders’ before them… but I have lived in it most of my life. My parents… Read more “Antonio López García – Humbly drawing great art out of a dirty bathroom”
The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (II)
Martin Schöngauer and the very young Michelangelo Buonarroti One of the best depictions of the ordeals that St. Anthony Abbot went through during his retirement in the… Read more “The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (II)”
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