Symphony in Yellow

Symphony in Yellow

Joan Miró

Easter Treats

Teheran

Santa Lucía

Quevedo

Oscar Wilde

Miracle

Montana

Minute 

Ambassador

 

Mark 11:23

"For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith."

Ecclesiastes 5:2

“Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.”

 

 11:23  ἀμὴν γὰρ λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι ὃς ἂν εἴπῃ τῷ ὄρει τούτῳ Ἄρθητι καὶ βλήθητι εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ μὴ διακριθῇ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ ἀλλὰ πιστεύσῃ ὅτι ἃ λέγεῖ γίνεται ἔσται αὐτῷ ὃ ἐὰν εἴπῃ

 

 

Amanda Gorman, poet laureate   

λέγω:legō:I say

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 "which time was taken up in innocent mirth between my wife and daughters"~~~Goldsmith

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teheran

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drawing of the minuteman in Concord, Massachusetts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oscar Wilde
 

 

 

 

 

 "Under the October twilight the water

Mirrors a still sky"~~~Yeats

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joaquim Gomis (Mural), Joan Miró

 

 

 

"the mind of man...(is)...the mirror of the fairest and most interesting qualities of nature"~~~Wordsworth

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alexis Ren
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gaby Jiménez 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easter Treats

 

 

 

Chess: "Symphony in Yellow" "Easter Treats" "Teheran" "Santa Lucía" "Quevedo" "Oscar Wilde""Miracle" "Montana" "Minuteman" "Minute" "Miró" "Ambassador"

 

Giotto

Giotto

Giotto's "O"

Magister

Magisterial

Maestro

Magistral

Master

Travel

Chase Manhattan

Florence

Robert Burns

Botafumeiro

 

Psalm 66:15 

"I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah"

 

 

 "I saw...that the practical teaching of the masters of Art was summed up by the O of Giotto"~~~Ruskin: Queen of the Air, iii.

 

 

 

 

 Giotto - Compianto sul Cristro morto (1304-1306)

Lamentation over Christ

 

 

 

 "I saw...that the practical teaching of the masters of Art was summed up by the O of Giotto"~~~Ruskin: Queen of the Air, iii.

 

 

 

 "There is a great story about the Renaissance painter Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337) who is said to have won a Vatican contract from Pope Benedictus XII by submitting nothing more than a perfectly executed hand-drawn circle. The circle became famously known as the “O of Giotto”, and remains to this day part of artistic lore. But it is not famous for its realism; realism, as an aesthetic pursuit, was not yet a virtue in Giotto’s time, even if Giotto did much to usher that virtue in. It is famous, rather, for its symbolism: the idea of perfection. The perfect circle, we know, has had a long history of expressing the perfect, the ideal, and thus the divine. Giotto’s O becomes emblematic of a Renaissance obsession with symmetry, with the aesthetics of geometry, with the unity of the whole, and with the spiritual features of the circle. And we can see this worked out in the many Roman arches and halos that Giotto painted for churches and ecclesiastical patrons. But it was more. It also became emblematic of the human aspiration to master an ideally integrated world, one in which the divine imprint on the created order not only could be perceived with the eye and the mind, but also – and this the Renaissance championed most expressly – could be replicated by an aesthetic gesture. This gesture, perfectly rendered, is what so obviously endeared Giotto to the Pope, and allowed Giotto his celebrated career. His O was an immaculate sign of a higher order – indeed, the highest."~~~Posted by Andrew W. Hass in Critical Religion, University of Stirling

 

 

 

 

Santiago de Compostela, Galicia
 

 

Stela H, a high-relief in-the-round sculpture from Copán in Honduras

 

 Robert Burns Cottage.

 

 

 

 

 Giotto, Kiss of Judas

Wonderful Bharatiya woman Hair style on a statue at Sri Bhuvaraha Swamy Temple in Srimushnam, Cuddalore district of Tami Nadu.

 

Chess: "Giotto" "Giotto's "O" "Magister" "Magisterial" "Maestro" "Magistral" "Master" "Travel" "Chase Manhattan" "Florence" "Robert Burns"

 

 

 Robert Burns Cottage.

This is the house in Alloway Ayrshire where Robert Burns was born on the 25th of January 1759, he grew up to be one of Scotland’s most beloved and celebrated poets, his works included Auld Lang Syne, Scots Wha Hae, Tam o’ Shanter and To a Mouse.

Poem.

To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough,

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,

O, what a pannic's in thy breastie!

Thou need na start awa sae hasty,

Wi' bickering brattle!

I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee,

Wi' murd'ring pattle!

I'm truly sorry man's dominion,

Has broken nature's social union,

An' justifies that ill opinion,

Which makes thee startle

At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,

An' fellow-mortal!.

Berkeley

Berkeley

Shape and Flavor 

Cockles

Arenal Volcano

κέρδος

John Dos Passos or Mark Twain?

Psalm 66:16

"Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul."

Phil.1:21

"For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."

"Este prólogo podría denominarse la estética de Berkeley, no porque la haya profesado el metafísico irlandés-una de las personas más queribles que en la memoria de los hombres perduran-sino porque aplica a las letras el argumento que este aplicó a la realidad. El sabor de la manzana (declara Berkeley) está en el contacto de la fruta con el paladar, no en la fruta misma, análogamente (diría yo) la poesía está en el comercio del poema con el lector, no en la serie de símbolos que registran las páginas de un libro. Lo esencial es el hecho estético, el thrill, la modificación física que suscita cada lectura. Esto acaso no es nuevo, pero a mis años las novedades importan menos que la verdad.

La literatura impone su magia por artificios; el lector acaba por reconocerlos y desdeñarlos; de ahí la constante necesidad de mínimas o máximas variaciones, que pueden recuperar un pasado o prefigurar un porvenir. ~~~Jorge Luis Borges : Prólogo a OBRA POÉTICA

 

George Berkeley

 

 

 

 

 

“Convencidos de caducidad 

por tantas nobles certidumbres del polvo, 

nos demoramos y bajamos la voz 

entre las lentas filas de panteones, 

cuya retórica de sombra y de mármol 

promete o prefigura la deseable 

dignidad de haber muerto.”~~~Borges: La Recoleta

 

 

La Recoleta

ἐμοὶ γὰρ τὸ ζῆν Χριστὸς καὶ τὸ ἀποθανεῖν κέρδος

Arenal Volcano

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess: "Berkeley" "Shape and Flavor" "Cockles" "Arenal Volcano" "κέρδος" "John Dos Passos or Mark Twain?"