Posts Tagged: paintings
Tintin in Charleroi, fleeing from the elephant
On March 25, 2019
- Street Scenes
"He thought he saw an Elephant That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. 'At length I realize,' he said, 'The bitterness of Life!'" (Lewis Carroll no title) Charleroi (B)
Solo on an old wall
On May 27, 2016
- Street Scenes
"But age apace Comes at last to all; And a lone house filled With the cricket's call; And the scampering mouse In the hollow wall." (Walter de la Mare in Alone) Namur (B)
There is a pain in playing
On October 18, 2015
- Street Scenes
“I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.”
(T.S. Eliot in Preludes IV)
Ougrée (B)
Echo’s on a wall
On February 24, 2015
- Street Scenes
“An echo it may be, floating past;
A shadow it may be, fading fast:
Shadow or echo, we ride, we ride
We ride by moor and hill.”
(H. Newbolt in Hope the Hornblower)
Liège-Chênée (B)