Posts Tagged ‘Cezanne’

Pleasures of Paris

Friday, September 6th, 1991

in a moment, the door will swing back shut, and the cafe will dis­ap­pear, and then the street singer will van­ish, into the street, into the night, nev­er to be seen again. Only here, in this paint­ing, where she is for­ev­er caught in the gold­en net of the Paris night at the moment when she stepped out through the swing­ing door, onto the street, and into our dreams.

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Earth Day

Sunday, May 7th, 1989

“It’s all com­ing from mem­o­ry,” says ROBERT FERRANDINI. “From fairy tales, from child­hood — from imag­in­ing. The way I see it, it’s the land­scape of the mind. Lots of land­scapes came to me from the movies. Fort Apache. Red Riv­er. Cheyenne Autumn. The Searchers. The idea of the search — which is what I do as a painter. I go into it. I search.”

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The Dial: Arts and Letters in the 1920s

Wednesday, April 1st, 1981

THE DIAL was a lit­er­ary mag­a­zine that pub­lished T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and Vir­ginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dal­loway, as well as repro­duc­tions of art­works col­lect­ed by Schofield Thay­er, a Hen­ry Jame­sian char­ac­ter who went abroad in search of old knowl­edge and new art. 

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