Flores silvestres em liberdade

Albrecht Dürer, The Large Piece of Turf (1503, Museu Albertina, Viena)

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Martha Darley Mutrie, Wild Flowers at the Corner of a Cornfield (c.1855–60, Tate, Londres)

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Carl Frederik Aagaard, Wildflowers by a Cornfield (1857)

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Theodor Petter (atr.), Spring flowers on the forest floor with bumblebee (1872)

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Ivan Shishkin, Wildflowers near the water (1889-1890)

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Ellen Robbins, Wild Flowers No. 2 (1861-1897, Boston Public Library)

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John Henry Twachtman, Wildflowers (c.1890 - c.1895)

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Eyvind Earle, Wild Flowers

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Arkady Rylov, Wild Rowan (1922)

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Charles Essenhigh Corke, Flores silvestres: anêmona de madeira

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Andre Bauchant, Grand bouquet of wild flowers (1928)

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Chani Cohen Zada, Freedom-1

Passear (apesar das previsões de chuva)

Ivan Shishkin, A Walk in the Forest (1869, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscovo)

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«In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks».

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John Muir.

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Com as devidas distâncias, a pintura de Shishkin lembra-ma a da minha bisavó:

Emília Mattos, Passeio em Sintra (1889)

A Chuva

Gustave Caillebotte, The Yerres, Rain (1875)

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Ivan Shishkin, Rain in the Oak Forest (1891)

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António Soares, Chuva e Vento (MNAC)

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Brassaï, Passerby in the Rain (1935)

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Ohara Koson, Three Tree Sparrows in a Rain Shower

Florestas

Ivan Shishkin, Morning in a Pine Forest (1889, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscovo)

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«A floresta continua a ser um conto de fadas, um antro de mistérios.»

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Jorge Calado, 1993.

«Documentos para artistas – As relações entre a fotografia e a pintura», in Henriques, Ana de Castro, Castro, Catarina Maia e (coord.). Silva Porto 1850-1893: exposição comemorativa do centenário da sua morte. Lisboa: I.P.M., p. 33.

May it be...

Ivan Shishkin, A woman under an umbrella on a flowering meadow (1881)

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...May it be the shadows call

Will fly away

May it be your journey on

To light the day

When the night is overcome 

You may rise to find the sun...

(Link)

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O céu, as nuvens e a chuva

«(…) La peinture n’est pas un langage, mais, dès lors qu’elle représente et, surtout, qu’elle “imite la Nature”, elle est articulée selon des operations similaires à celles qu’opère le langage pour render compte du reel en le transformant précisement en Nature».

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Daniel Arasse.

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Giogione, La tempesta (1505, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Veneza - Link)

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Josephine Bowes, A Cornfield near Calais (1860-74, Link)

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Ivan Shishkin, Gathering storm (1884, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg - Link)

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Nicholas Roerich, Battle in the Heavens (1912, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg - Link)

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Felix Vallotton, The Entrance to the Villa Beaulieu in Honfleur (Before the Storm) (1916 - Link)

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Henri Rousseau, La Vigie de Malakoff (1892 - Link)

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Tomas Saraceno, Cloudy House (2009 - Link)

Nós e a Natureza I

Ivan Shishkin, Expanse (1883, in The Glory of Russian Painting).

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Ilya Ostroukhov, River at Noon (1892, in Wikimedia Commons).

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«The earth has music for those who listen». 

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George Santayana.

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