Para o Dia da Mãe, que é no Domingo

Aqui ficam alguns quadros, que me parecem ter afinidades:

 

James MacNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1, Portrait of the Artist's Mother (1871, Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

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Vilhelm Hammershoi, Frederikke Hammershøi, the artist's mother (1886)

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Helene Schjerfbeck, At Home Mother sewing (1903)

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Felix Vallotton, The artist's mother (1884)

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Henry Ossawa Tanner, Portrait of the Artist's Mother (1897)

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Franz Marc, Portrait of the Artist's Mother (1902)

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Carl Larsson, My mother (1893)

Subjectividade I

Helene Schjerfbeck, Naisprofiili (1884)

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«Being too busy has this result: that an individual very, very rarely is permitted to form a heart; on the other hand, the thinker, the poet, or the religious personality who actually has formed his heart, will never be popular, not because he is difficult, but because it demands quiet and prolonged working with oneself and intimate knowledge of oneself as well as a certain isolation.»

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Søren Kierkegaard (1846), in Maria Popova, «Kierkegaard on the Individual vs. the Crowd, Why We Conform, and the Power of the Minority»

Da pintura nórdica: Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946)

«Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.»

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Edvard Munch.

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Self-portrait with Black Background (1915 - Link)

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Dancing Shoes (1882 - Link)

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Chickens Among Haystacks (c.1887 - Link)

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Picking Bluebells (Link)

De costas

Aksel Waldemar Johannessen, Rear View of Daughter Solveig Sitting on a Chair (1920).

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Helene Schjerfbeck, Girl Reading (Seated Girl) (1904).

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Carl Holsoe, At the Breakfast Table (link: Gandalf's Gallery)

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«Com muita sabedoria, estudando muito, pensando muito, procurando compreender tudo e todos, um homem consegue, depois de mais ou menos quarenta anos de vida, aprender a ficar calado». 

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Millôr Fernandes.

O Tempo II

Helene Schjerfbeck, At Home (Turku Art Museum).
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«Time is what prevents everything from happening at once».
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John Archibald Wheeler.

Uma janela aberta

Pintura de Helene Schjerfbeck, Boys on the Shore by St. Ives (1887).

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«Ter uma téla é ter uma janella aberta para o Mar, para as Árvores ou para a Alma».

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Raul Brandão (1894).