La Maison de Ma Région de Perpignan propose une exposition virtuelle sur son site. L’exposition présente les photographies du livre de Georges Bartoli “De la vie des femmes”.
Alors que les expositions se font rares à cause des restrictions sanitaires. La Maison de Ma région de Perpignan a trouvé la solution. Dans le cadre du mois de l’égalité organisé par la région Occitanie…
The renunciation cycle - Le cirque renoncé - A prova positiva
Series of 12 paintings accompanied by poems Studies - watercolor 30 x 40 cm The Paintings - egg tempera 60 x 80 c
My renunciation paintings emerged in two cycles – although I recently reworked the First Renunciation Cycle completely in egg tempera because the original watercolor paintings no longer seemed to me to correspond to the feelings I wish to express and be considered by the informed observer.
Moved by the melancholic saudade of Portuguese fado music, many years ago, I began to examine the assertion by philosophers of the epicurean hedonist tradition that our greatest good is reason. That just didn’t seem to match with my rather expressionistic artistic inclinations. Like many artists, writers and thinkers before me, I came to the conclusion that our greatest good is our ability to feel. And to be able to recognize, portray and convey those feelings.
Suffering, pain, humiliation, unfulfilled desire, restless longing, bitterness and disappointment are some of the powerful emotions that have run through me. They caused bewilderment and turmoil. At length, however, also came joy, contentment, acceptance, warmth, wonder, and love.
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