Ubaldo Oppi | Magic realism painter

Ubaldo Oppi (1889-1942) was an Italian painter, one of the founders of the Novecento Italiano in Milan. He painted in a Neo-quattrocento realist style.

He was born in Bologna, but by the age of 4 years, his father, a shoe salesman, had moved to Vicenza.

He was sent by his father North to the German countries to learn the shoe trade, but elected to stay in Vienna (1907-1909), and study under Gustav Klimt.

Gustave Van de Woestyne | Expressionist painter

From: Sotheby's

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In 1900, after art studies in his native city of Ghent, Gustave Van de Woestyne (1881-1947) settled in Sint-Martens-Latem, on the banks of the Leie river, where an artistic colony of poets, painters and sculptors had formed in search of an innovative and meaningful artistic expression.

His admiration for the technique and spirituality of the Flemish old masters led him to develop an art of mystic-religious symbolism and allegory.

He also drew inspiration from the Italian Primitives, Maurice Denis and fresco painting and became one of the figures of the "First School of Larthem".

Emily Dickinson | The Skies can't keep their secret! / I Cieli non sanno serbare il loro segreto!

The Skies cant keep their secret!

They tell it to the Hills -

The Hills just tell the Orchards -

And they - the Daffodils!

A Bird - by chance - that goes that way -

Soft overhears the whole -

If I should bribe the little Bird -

Who knows but she would tell?

René Magritte | Le Baiser, 1957

Emily Dickinson | Vi dirò come sorse il sole / I’ll tell you how the sun rose

Vi dirò come sorse il sole -

un nastro dopo l’altro -

i campanili nuotavano nell’ametista -

la notizia, come scoiattoli, corse -

le colline di slegarono i cappucci -

Ben Winspear

Pedro Salinas | Lì, oltre il sorriso / There, behind laughter

Lì, oltre il sorriso,

non ti si conosce più.

Vai e vieni, scivoli

per un mondo di valzer...

"Che allegra!" dicono tutti.

Ed è che tu allora

tenti di essere altra,

così somigliante

Michel Hendrich | Transmission

Elliott Seabrooke | Post Impressionist painter

Elliott Seabrooke (1886-1950) was a British landscape and still-life painter.

His work is in the permamnent collection of the Tate.

Seabrooke was born in Upton Park, Essex (now London).

Seabrooke studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1906-1911, painted mainly in the Epping Forest and the Lake District, later also repeatedly in Holland, France and Italy.

Wisława Szymborska | Un incontro inatteso / An unexpected meeting

Siamo molto cortesi l'uno con l'altro,

diciamo che e' bello incontrarsi dopo anni.

Le nostre tigri bevono latte.

I nostri sparvieri vanno a piedi.

I nostri squali affogano nell'acqua.

I nostri lupi sbadigliano alla gabbia aperta.