Kindred Spirits*
Kindred Spirits, Asher B. Durand (1849)
Homenaje pictórico de Durand a su amigo Thomas Cole, tras la muerte de éste. En el cuadro aparecen Cole y el poeta William Cullen Bryant, amigo de ambos. El título nace inspirado en el soneto de John Keats To Solitude, que dice así:
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell,
Let it not be among the jumbled heap
Of murky buildings; climb with me the steep,--
Nature's observatory--whence the dell,
Its flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell,
May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep
'Mongst boughs pavillion'd, where the deer's swift leap
Startles the wild bee from the fox-glove bell.
But though I'll gladly trace these scenes with thee,
Yet the sweet converse of an innocent mind,
Whose words are images of thoughts refin'd,
Is my soul's pleasure; and it sure must be
Almost the highest bliss of human-kind,
When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee.
(John Keats)
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell,
Let it not be among the jumbled heap
Of murky buildings; climb with me the steep,--
Nature's observatory--whence the dell,
Its flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell,
May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep
'Mongst boughs pavillion'd, where the deer's swift leap
Startles the wild bee from the fox-glove bell.
But though I'll gladly trace these scenes with thee,
Yet the sweet converse of an innocent mind,
Whose words are images of thoughts refin'd,
Is my soul's pleasure; and it sure must be
Almost the highest bliss of human-kind,
When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee.
(John Keats)
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"La vida consiste en lo salvaje. Lo más vivo es lo salvaje. Aquello que todavía no ha sido sometido por el hombre, aquello cuya presencia nos renueva".
(Henry David Thoreau*)
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"La vida consiste en lo salvaje. Lo más vivo es lo salvaje. Aquello que todavía no ha sido sometido por el hombre, aquello cuya presencia nos renueva".
(Henry David Thoreau*)
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*escritores como Thoreau o Emerson fueron una gran influencia para los pintores paisajistas americanos del S. XIX
[Dentro de la conferencia Nature's Nation - Americans and Landscape, de Linda S. Ferber. Fundación Mapfre, 18 de octubre de 2010]
[Dentro de la conferencia Nature's Nation - Americans and Landscape, de Linda S. Ferber. Fundación Mapfre, 18 de octubre de 2010]
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