blog
blog
Out of context: Reply #30536
- Started
- Last post
- 75,645 Responses
- hallelujah0
Past the age of fifty, Velasquez
stopped painting definite things.
He hovered around objects
with the air, with twilight,
catching in his shadows
and airy backgrounds...
the palpitations of colour...
which formed the invisible core
of his silent symphony.
Henceforth, he captured only...
those mysterious interpenetrations
of shape and tone that form a constant,
secret progression,
neither betrayed nor interrupted
by any jolt or jar.
Space reigns supreme.
It is as if an aerial wave,
sliding over the surfaces,
soaked up their visible emanations,
defined and modeled them,
then spread them about like a perfume,
an echo of themselves,
a scattering of impalpable dust.