At Sunnyside - Where Truth and Beauty Meet

- Odilon Redon, “Etruscan Vase With Flowers”, (1900-1910),Metropolitan Museum of Art, Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1951; acquired from The Museum of Modern Art, Lillie P. Bliss Collection
Quotes from Odilon Redon:
“I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.” Odilon Redon from The Art Story
“My originality consists in bringing to life, in a human way, improbable beings and making them live according to the laws and probability, by putting – as far as possible – the logic of the visible at the service of the invisible.” Odilon Redon from The Art Story
Mission Accomplished!
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Guttapercha-Verarbeitung auf Java (ca. 1920/1930); Quelle: commons.wikimedia.org, File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM…

Primo Levi, “The Periodic Table” (translated from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal) (1975) – What is there to say about Primo Levi? As far as I can tell, he might be the most universally respected of the great twentieth century literary figures. No late-career slump, no shilling for oppressive regimes, no ego spiral, no sexual predation… just a dude saying what he saw, as best he could.