Alda Merini | Rosa di maggio

L’alba si è fatta

profumo di rose.

Rosa di maggio,

abbarbicata sul muro vetusto;

affresco di vita

corroso dagli scherni del tempo.

Vicente Romero Redondo

"Dimmi ciò che leggi e ti dirò chi sei"! / "Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are"!

• "Dimmi ciò che leggi e ti dirò chi sei, è vero, ma ti conoscerei meglio se mi dicessi quello che rileggi".

• "Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread".

François Mauriac

• "The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book".

• "La macchina tecnologicamente più efficiente che l’uomo abbia mai inventato è il libro".

Herman Northrop Frye

Carl Spitzweg | The Bookworm, 1850 | Grohmann Museum

Spanish Art History and Sitemap

Spanish art has been an important contributor to Western art and Spain has produced many famous and influential artists including Velázquez, Goya and Picasso.

Spanish art was particularly influenced by Italy and France during the Baroque and Neoclassical periods, but Spanish art has often had very distinctive characteristics, partly explained by the Moorish heritage in Spain (especially in Andalusia), and through the political and cultural climate in Spain during the Counter-Reformation and the subsequent eclipse of Spanish power under the Bourbon dynasty.

Pablo Picasso - Embrace, 1900

20th century Art History and Sitemap

Twentieth-century art - and what it became as modern art - began with modernism in the late nineteenth century.

Nineteenth-century movements of Post-Impressionism (Les Nabis), Art Nouveau and Symbolism led to the first twentieth-century art movements of Fauvism in France and Die Brücke ("The Bridge") in Germany.

Fauvism in Paris introduced heightened non-representational colour into figurative painting.

Die Brücke strove for emotional Expressionism.

Henri Matisse | Woman on a Terrace, 1907 | Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg

Vicente Romero Redondo, 1956 | Figurative painter

Spanish painter Vicente Romero Redondo was born in Madrid as the eldest of four sons. Due to the work of his father, he grew up in many different towns all over Spain.

The family moved back to Madrid when he was 15 years old.

During his childhood, his parents thought he would dedicate his life to painting, as his caricatures of schoolmates and teachers were famous in every school where he studied and one would rarely see him without a pencil and a notepad in his hands.

Romero achieved his dream: he began studies at the High School for Art San Fernando, the most prestigious art school in Spain - Salvador Dali studied there from 1922-1926.

Charles Bukowski | I can't stop thinking about you / Non ho smesso di pensarti

Vicente Romero Redondo🎨

I have not stopped thinking about you,

I’d love to tell you.

I would like write to you and say that I would go back,

that I miss you

and I think of you.

But I do not look for you.

I do not write you, even hello.

I do not know how you are.

And I miss knowing it.