tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post2827410678446676456..comments2023-12-06T13:31:17.163+00:00Comments on The Painting of Melancholia: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-18709210740626588862009-03-04T17:58:00.000+00:002009-03-04T17:58:00.000+00:00Many thanks to the team for the translation of the...Many thanks to the team for the translation of the lovely poem by Brecht.<BR/><BR/>Agree it is the colour that sets the mood with perhaps the subject being so far off centre that one feels a little naseous. Doesn't work with a tiny photograph, but in front off the painting there is a such a sensation.Blackdoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13917019570643578121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-63249319717360938732009-03-04T14:28:00.000+00:002009-03-04T14:28:00.000+00:00Bert Brecht, The Plum Tree/Der PflaumenbaumThe plu...Bert Brecht, The Plum Tree/Der Pflaumenbaum<BR/><BR/>The plum tree in the yard's so small,<BR/>It's hardly like a tree at all.<BR/>Yet there it is, railed round<BR/>To keep it safe and sound. <BR/><BR/>The poor thing can't grow any more, <BR/>Though if it could, it would be sure.<BR/>There' s nothing to be done,<BR/>It gets too little sun. <BR/><BR/>The plum tree never bears a plum,<BR/>So it's Philine Kleinknechthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18370437261050391305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-85611159078763570192009-03-04T14:12:00.000+00:002009-03-04T14:12:00.000+00:00Your analytic notes about this painting are detail...Your analytic notes about this painting are detailed and interesting. I find remarkable the contrast of the straight and rectangular lines (hinting to man-made-things like houses, "public places", courtyards in a city) and the branches of the tree, two thick branches (diagonal-parallel lines) which give the feel of being a pair- "rather barren trees" indead, but there are a few leaves which Philine Kleinknechthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18370437261050391305noreply@blogger.com