Manuel de Gracia (1937-2017)

Spanish painter Manuel de Gracia was born in Mora de Toledo. He started in Madrid practicing in the Círculo de Bellas Artes workshops and he held his first solo exhibition in 1963 in the Sala Toisón, together with Manuel Cano and José Suárez.

Later he exhibited individually at the Eureka gallery and after that he showed this work in Valladolid and Santander.

Wassily Kandinsky | III - The Spiritual revolution, 1910

Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1910

The spiritual triangle moves slowly onwards and upwards. Today one of the largest of the lower segments has reached the point of using the first battle cry of the materialist creed. The dwellers in this segment group themselves round various banners in religion. They call themselves Jews, Catholics, Protestants, etc. But they are really atheists, and this a few either of the boldest or the narrowest openly avow. "Heaven is empty", "God is dead".

In politics these people are democrats and republicans. The fear, horror and hatred which yesterday they felt for these political creeds they now direct against anarchism, of which they know nothing but its much dreaded name.

Carl Frederic Aagaard (1833-1895)

Carl Frederik Peder Aagaard was a Danish landscape painter and decorative artist.

He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and under P. C. Skovgaard. Many of his paintings focused on spots frequented by tourists.

Biography

He was the son of a shoemaker. He had his first painting lessons in Odense but, in order to improve his skills, moved to Copenhagen in 1852 and joined his brother Johan, who was a woodcutter.

Emily Dickinson | I Fear a man of frugal speech / Temo l'uomo di poche parole

Poem 543

I fear a Man of frugal Speech

I fear a Silent Man

Haranguer I can overtake

Or Babbler entertain

Temo un uomo di poche parole

temo un uomo che tace

l'arringatore - posso superarlo

il chiacchierone - posso intrattenerlo.

Danielle Richard | Sometimes in Summer

Wassily Kandinsky | III. La svolta spirituale

Lo spirituale nell'arte, 1910

Il triangolo procede lentamente verso l'alto. Oggi una delle più ampie sezioni inferiori ha raggiunto il livello dei primi postulati del "dogma" materialistico. Da un punto di vista religioso i suoi abitanti hanno vari nomi. Si chiamano Ebrei, Cattolici, Protestanti, ecc. In realtà sono atei, come i più audaci (o i più limitati) di loro riconoscono apertamente.

Il "cielo" è vuoto.

"Dio è morto".

Politicamente sono democratici o repubblicani. La paura, il disprezzo e l'odio che un tempo nutrivano per queste tendenze politiche li hanno riversati oggi sull'anarchia, di cui conoscono solo il terribile nome. In economia sono socialisti. Affilano la spada della giustizia per vibrare il colpo mortale all'idra capitalista e tagliare la testa al male.

Wassily Kandinsky | Amsterdam view from the window