Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.
(Charles Baudelaire)
Today I'm gonna start with this marvellous painting by Viktor Oliva (1861-1928) called "The Absinthe drinker", which shows a beautiful woman, a ghost, "la Fée Verte" sitting on a table towards a drunken man that is looking at her. He's alone, but his mind wanders as the alcohol runs through his veins... I find this image poetic: I love the colours, and the prospective, the smoke in the air, the loneliness of the man and yet the consciousness of his glance. I discovered this strange artist thanks to a group on Facebook (Peripheral Visions: Mythic, Mystic and Other Strange Art) founded by another amazing artist of our days: Andy Paciorek. I strongly recommend you his works and all he loves and stands around him, because there's a world of beauty we can't imagine. Beauty, but also Strangeness, and unusual visions men could create with their dreams, or distortion of their dramas.
I wish I could have lived among Bohemians like one of my favourite artists, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (I will tell you his sad story another time), or Genius like Charles Baudelaire, whose words fascinate me all of the time, anything he wrote has a strong effect, and at the same time a majestic and obscene poetry.
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