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Pedro Salinas / Chagall | "Per vivere non voglio isole, palazzi, torri.."

To live I don't want
islands, palaces, towers.

What steeper joy
Than living in pronouns!

Take off your clothing,
features, pictures;
I don't want you like that,
masked as another,
always a daughter of something.

Marc Chagall | Over the town / Sulla città, 1918

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Luca Carlevarijs | Baroque Era / Veduta painter

Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris (1663-1730) was an Italian painter and engraver working mainly in Venice.
He pioneered the genre of the cityscapes (vedute) of Venice, a genre that was later widely followed by artists such as Canaletto and Francesco Guardi.
Carlevarijs was born in Udine.
He was also known as 'Luca Casanobrio' or 'Luca di ca Zenobrio', for his patronage by the latter family.


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Rainer Maria Rilke: "Un’opera d’arte è buona se nasce da necessità!"

Lettera ad un Giovane Poeta / Letter to a Young Poet, 1903

"Le Lettere ad un giovane poeta" - dieci lettere scritte da Rainer Maria Rilke (Scrittore, poeta e drammaturgo austriaco di origine boema, 1875-1926) al giovane Franz Xaver Kappus (Scrittore e giornalista Austriaco, 1883-1966), sono un manifesto della creazione artistica.

Studente ventenne della Accademia militare di Wiener Neustadt, Franz Kappus si dilettava a scrivere poesie, e sognava di condurre una vita diversa - non dedita ai servizi militari.
Scoprendo che la stessa Accademia, anni prima, era stata frequentata dal noto poeta Rilke, inizia a leggerlo nelle pause tra le lezioni ed un giorno decide di scrivergli.

Caspar David Friedrich | Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818

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William Strang (1859-1921)

From National Galleries of Scotland:

During his lifetime, Dumbarton-born William Strang built up an international reputation as a highly skilled and imaginative printmaker, portraitist and painter.
His diverse subjects ranged from the fantastic to the very real, including uncompromising depictions of contemporary life and the effects of poverty and social injustice, landscapes, subjects from the bible, bewildering allegories, and narrative illustrations.
He was also a prolific and highly successful portraitist.


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Harriette Bowdoin | Impressionist painter

Harriette Bowdoin (1880-1947) è stata una pittrice ed illustratrice impressionista nata a South Hadley Falls, nel Massachusetts.
Bowdoin si trasferì a New York in giovane età per studiare con Henry Snell - un importante impressionista, ed Elliott Dangerfield - un paesaggista.
Bowdoin ha viaggiato e si è formata in Europa, dove ha stretto amicizia con l'artista americana Jane Peterson mentre entrambe studiavano con Frank Brangwyn a Londra.