This is one of my favorite works. Extremely simple, was perhaps the quickest to paint until today, and also one of the most enjoyable. I was about to call it "Life among the stones II”, because it represents a reality which is similar to the work such titled before, but I confess that I do not like these "sequel-titles"...
In what concerns to the rugged beauty of the stone villages, also a thousand times - but never enough - mentioned here, I won't add anything for that same reason, except perhaps how much I miss visiting them, a desire that already existed, and have grown since.
Este é um dos meus trabalhos preferidos. Extremamente simples, foi talvez o que menos me demorou a fazer até hoje, e também dos mais agradáveis de pintar. Estive quase para lhe chamar “A vida entre as pedras II”, dado representar uma realidade em tudo semelhante à do trabalho assim intitulado anteriormente, mas confesso que não gosto nada desses “títulos-sequela”...
No que diz respeito à beleza rude das aldeias de pedra também já mil vezes – mas nunca suficientemente - aqui evocada, nada acrescentarei por isso mesmo, a não ser talvez as saudades de as visitar, que já existiam e entretanto cresceram.
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Não admira que seja um favorito...a luz, as texturas das pedras, das ervas do caminho...uma festa para os olhos. As núvens em último plano parecem justificar a precavida presença do guarda-chuva.
ReplyDeleteDe facto diverti-me bastante a pintar este trabalho, Villager. Às vezes estamos horas a fio a "mastigar" e o resultado é desastroso, outras acontece assim.
ReplyDeleteO guarda-chuva deve ser daqueles enormes à antiga, que quase dão para abrigar um rebanho inteiro :))
Yes, these are very interesting stone houses. They remind me of some ancient homes I saw once high up in the southern Alps. It would be very interesting to see how the people lived there. What is this little hole I see at the base of the blue door there? Is this a passageway for a mouse?
ReplyDeleteLife in these houses was very basic and hard, especially before the arrival of electricity, which in many cases happened in last century's decades of 60 and 70... I remember to see news about it on Tv when I was child.
ReplyDeleteUsually the animals were kept in the ground floor and people lived on the upper floor, with a few exceptions like the cat: He had an entrance of his own, that same passageway you noticed in the blue door, and his talents as a mice chaser were welcomed :))