Edward Hopper: Marinas

The Lee Shore (1941)

Ground Swell (1939)

The Bootleggers (1925)

The Martha McKeen of Wellfleet (1944), de Edward Hopper.

Quien no quiere razonar...

Quien no quiere razonar, es un fanático; quien no sabe razonar, es un tonto; y quien no osa razonar, es un esclavo. (He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.) William Drummond

El Peine del Viento

El Peine del Viento (1976), de Eduardo Chillida.

Esta foto la he encontrado en internet, ojalá yo pueda hacer fotos algún día.

Venus en cuclillas

Autor de la escultura desconocido. Foto: Jastrow (Wikipedia).

Venus en cuclillas bañándose con el brazo levantado, escultura romana en mármol de 71 cm. de altura, siglo II-III antes de Cristo, variante de un original griego del período helenístico, Museo del Louvre. Perteneció a la colección de Luis XIV de Francia.

Flores y Palabras cumple un año

Rosa sp. Fotografía: Elvira Coderch

Me alegra poder celebrar el primer año del blog y estoy encantada con los nuevos amigos que me acompañáis. Gracias a todos y besos.

The Beatles: Here comes the sun

HERE COMES THE SUN
George Harrison (1969)

Here comes the sun,
Here comes the sun,
And I say it's all right

Little darling
It's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling
It feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right

Little darling
The smiles returning to the faces
Little darling
It seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...

Little darling
I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling
It seems like years since it's been clear
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
It's all right, it's all right

Raoul Dufy: Ventanas abiertas al mar

Interior con ventana abierta (1928), y Ventana abierta en Niza (1928) de Raoul Dufy.

Por qué escribimos

Por qué escribimos es una pregunta que puedo responder con facilidad, ya que me lo he preguntado a mí misma muchas veces. Creo que uno escribe porque necesita crear un mundo en el que poder vivir. Yo no podía vivir en ninguno de los mundos que se me ofrecían - el mundo de mis padres, el mundo de la guerra, el mundo de la política. Tenía que crear un mundo propio, como un clima, un país, una atmósfera en la que pudiese respirar, reinar, y recrearme de nuevo cuando la vida me destrozara. Esa es, creo yo, la razón de cualquier obra de arte.

Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.

Anaïs Nin, February 1954, The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 5 (1947-1955). (Fuente: Wikipedia)

Salvador Dalí: Muchacha asomada a la ventana

Muchacha asomada a la ventana (1925), de Salvador Dalí. Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid.

Proud Mary

Proud Mary
Credence Clearwater Revival

Left a good job in the city,
Workin' for The Man every night and day,
And I never lost one minute of sleepin',
Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been.

Big wheel keep on turnin',
Proud Mary keep on burnin',
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river.

Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis,
Pumped a lot of 'tane down in New Orleans,
But I never saw the good side of the city,
'Til I hitched a ride on a river boat queen.

Big wheel keep on turnin',
Proud Mary keep on burnin',
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river.

Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river.

If you come down to the river,
Bet you gonna find some people who live.
You don't have to worry though you have no money,
People on the river are happy to give.

Big wheel keep on turnin',
Proud Mary keep on burnin',
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river.

Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river...

Edward Hopper: Faros

The Long Leg (1935)

Lighthouse at Two Lights (1929), The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Lighthouse Hill (1927), Dallas Museum of Art.

Lighthouse and Buildings (1927)

Lighthouse at Two Lights (1927), The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama.

Lighthouse, de Edward Hopper.

Escaramujos

Escaramujos (frutos del rosal silvestre, Rosa canina). Fotografías: Elvira Coderch