Maya Angelou / René Magritte | I know why the caged bird sings, 1969

The free bird leaps

on the back of the wind

and floats downstream

till the current ends

and dips his wings

in the orange sun rays

and dares to claim the sky.

Kaoru Yamada | Illustratrice digitale / AI

Kaoru Yamada / 山田カオル è un artista nata a Kamakura, in Giappone.

Dopo la laurea, ha studiato in Francia per tre anni.

Tornata a casa, lavora come copywriter in una società di produzione pubblicitaria ed inizia l'attività come illustratrice freelance.

Dal 2023 esplora nuove forme di espressione che combinano l'Intelligenza Artificiale con la tecnologia digitale.

Léon Cogniet | The massacre of the Innocents, 1824

The Massacre of the Innocents (Location: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes.) is the biblical account of infanticide by Herod the Great, the Roman-appointed King of the Jews.

According to the Gospel of Matthew, Herod ordered the execution of all young male children in the vicinity of Bethlehem, so as to avoid the loss of his throne to a newborn King of the Jews whose birth had been announced to him by the Magi.

In typical Matthean style, it is understood as the fulfillment of an Old Testament prophecy.

Jeff Stanford, 1955

Jeff Stanford is a contemporary photographer and digital artist based in Stockholm, Sweden.

His motto is "Always ready to learn something new".

Studied Art at the University of the Arts In Philadelphia at the most exciting time at the end of the 1970s and begining of the 1980s in the city center.

Met so many amazing artists who have inspired me all my life.

Victor Hugo | I wish you / Je te souhaite

I wish you first to love,

and that loving, also be loved.

And, if not, be brief in forgetting

and that after forgetting, don't hold grudges.

I wish, therefore, that it is not so, but that if it is,

You know how to be without despair.

Vladimir Kush | Symphony of the Sun

Ghiannis Ritsos | Moonlight sonata / Sonata al chiaro di luna, 1956

Jeremy Mann

A spring evening.

A large room in an old house. A woman of a certain age, dressed in black, is speaking to a young man. They have not turned on the lights.

Through both windows the moonlight shines relentlessly.

I forgot to mention that the Woman in Black has published two or three interesting volume of poetry with a religious flavor.

So, the Woman in Black is speaking to the Young Man:

Bernard Buffet | Expressionist painter

Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) was a French painter of Expressionism and a member of the anti-abstract art group L'homme Témoin (the Witness-Man).

Bernard Buffet represents a typical demonstration of the divorce between the French and Contemporary Art.

Popular artist by excellence, Bernard Buffet loved by the public is however detested by elitists whom hold against him his prolixity: 8,000 paintings, water colors,drawings, lithographs and engravings.

Picasso and the still life

For Picasso, life in all its forms - its tragedies, joys, and banalities; his great loves and his children; the people, places and events that shaped him - fed his insatiable need to create.

Consequently, every one of his works is deeply autobiographical - a reflection of a time, emotion or state of mind.

Just as a portrait by the artist is never just a straightforward depiction of a sitter, so a still life is never solely a meaningless assortment of objects.