Violência e sacrifício Man is the animal whose nature has not yet been fixed Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886. «I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail […]
Photograph of Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz at the Pasadena Retrospective in 1963-Courtesy of Mme. Jacqueline Matisse Monnier. Photo © 1963 Julian Wasser “Most striking at first is this appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long, unconscious prior work. The role of this unconscious work in mathematical invention appears to me incontestable.” “We […]
Max Ernst, Ubu Imperator, 1923, Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Je fus pendant longtemps ouvrier ébéniste,Dans la ru’ du Champ d’Mars, d’la paroiss’ de Toussaints.Mon épouse exerçait la profession d’modiste,Et nous n’avions jamais manqué de rien. –Quand le dimanch’ s’annonçait sans nuage,Nous exhibions nos beaux accoutrementsEt nous allions voir le décervelageRu’ d’l’Échaudé, […]
«Toda a vontade do pintor deve ser o silêncio. Ele deve fazer calar todas as vozes dos preconceitos, esquecer, esquecer, fazer silêncio. Então, sobre a sua tela sensível, toda a paisagem se inserirá». Cézanne Retocar o real com o real «Les couleurs, écoutez un peu, sont la chair éclatante des idées de Dieu. La transparence […]
«Quando terríveis acontecimentos assolavam as cidades, os presságios devoravam os sudários dos mortos e lançavam gritos agudos como os porcos quando comem»*. James Ensor(1860-1949), Máscaras enfrentando a Morte, 1888 *Christian Friedrich Germann (1640-1708), De Miraculis Mortuorum, Leipzig, Kirchner, 1670.
