Botton, arte, prados, e etc.

«I’d like to propose that art has a purpose that can be defined and discussed in plain terms: it is a therapeutic medium that can guide, exhort, strengthen and console its viewers, helping them to become better versions of themselves.»

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Alain de Botton.

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Camille Corot, Meadow with Two Large Trees (1865-1870)

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Claude Monet, Walk in the Meadows at Argenteuil (1873)

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«In any number of situations there are works of art that we should look at in order to rebalance our characters, recover calm, rediscover hope, expand our capacities for empathy and learn to appreciate the everyday. No less than music or literature, the visual arts have a role to play in keeping us more or less sane and in restoring us to a measure of serenity in an often frenetic and disappointing world.»

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Alain de Botton.

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Silva Porto, Lugar do Prado (Santa Marta-Minho) (1892, Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves)

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Eugene Boudin, The Valley of the Touques. Cows in the Meadow. (1892)

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Camille Pissarro, Berneval Meadows, Morning (1900)

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«It lies in the power of art to honour the elusive but real value of ordinary life. It can teach us to be more just towards ourselves as we endeavour to make the best of our circumstances: a job we do not always love, the imperfections of middle-age, our frustrated ambitions and our attempts to stay loyal to irritable but loved spouses. Art can do the opposite of glamourising the unattainable; it can reawaken us to the genuine merit of life as we’re forced to lead it.»

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Alain de Botton.

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Os sublinhados são meus. Gosto deste texto porque me identifico com ele e já me aconteceu entrar num Museu sentindo-me deprimida e impotente e sair de lá revigorada. Por vezes, o simples gesto de pesquisar arte na internet já é um bom anti-depressivo. E acontece-me muitas vezes o mesmo com a natureza - daí os prados.