Carta a Théo (La noche estrellada)
The images with which Tranströmer charges his poems bring to mind the concept of acheiropoieta, “making without hands”; in Byzantine art, acheiropoietic images were those believed to have come miraculously into being without a painter’s intervention. The Shroud of Turin and the Veil of Veronica are the most famous examples.
Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things
Se detuvo, trató de comprender el sentido del paisaje, escuchó el silencio. JUAN CARLOS ONETTI
Jordi Soler • Mapa secreto del bosque (Spanish Edition)
Schapiro said that when van Gogh loaded his palette with pigment he couldn’t afford, he was praying in color. He put his anxiety into pigment, slapped color into its cheeks. Color was salvation. It had to be thick, and tangible.
Anatole Broyard • Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
Gogh’s representation of space had left a deep impression on her. In his subconscious, space seemed to have structure. Cheng Xin wasn’t an expert in theoretical physics back then, but she knew that according to string theory, space, like material objects, was made up of many microscopic vibrating strings. Van Gogh had painted these strings: In his
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