I have recently come across a tiny little poem by a Bulgarian poet, Blaga Dimitrova:
Grass
“I’m not afraid
They’ll stamp me flat
Grass stamped flat
Soon becomes a path…”
Sometimes it’s difficult to be yourself and go against the current. But it’s worth it.
This post comes a little bit late for the Coming Out Day, which was on the 11th October, but I still want to dedicate it to all those who have become paths for others…
Let’s see the best paths from art!
Walk with Klee
Paul Klee, Main path and byways, 1929, Museum Ludwig
Walk with Pissarro
Camille Pissarro, The path of Basincourt, 1884, private collection
Walk with Monet
Claude Monet, The Sheltered Path, 1873, private collection
Walk with Sisley
Alfred Sisley, Hill Path, 1876, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Path through the High Grass, c.1876, Private Collection
Walk with Roerich
Nicholas Roerich, The straight path, 1912, Nizhny Novgorod State Museum of Fine Arts , Russia
Walk with Twachtman
John Henry Twachtman, Path in the Hills, Branchville, Connecticut, c.1888 – c.1891, Private Collection
If you feel lost, or at the crossroads, I hope these paths from art will lead you to a better place, an awaited decision, an answer…
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Magda, art historian and Italianist, she writes about art because she cannot make it herself. She loves committed and political artists like Ai Weiwei or the Futurists; like Joseph Beuys she believes that art can change us and we can change the world.
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