Original artwork description:

This painting illustrate a famous poem by Osip Mandel'stam. This one:

I was washing at night out in the yard,
the heavens glowing with rough stars,
a star-beam like salt upon an axe,
the water butt cold and brim full.

A padlock makes the gate secure,
and conscience gives sternness to the earth –
hard to find a standard anywhere
purer than the truth of new-made cloth.

A star melts in the water butt like salt,
cold water in the butt is blacker still,
death is more pure, disaster saltier
and earth more truthful and more terrible.

by Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам (Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam.

translated by Peter France

Materials used:

paper, watercolours, gouache

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#landscape #poetry #black #illustration #watercolors #poem #graphic novels #literature #mandelstam 

From a poem by Osip Mandel'stam (2019) Mixed-media painting
by paolo beneforti

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This painting illustrate a famous poem by Osip Mandel'stam. This one:

I was washing at night out in the yard,
the heavens glowing with rough stars,
a star-beam like salt upon an axe,
the water butt cold and brim full.

A padlock makes the gate secure,
and conscience gives sternness to the earth –
hard to find a standard anywhere
purer than the truth of new-made cloth.

A star melts in the water butt like salt,
cold water in the butt is blacker still,
death is more pure, disaster saltier
and earth more truthful and more terrible.

by Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам (Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam.

translated by Peter France

Materials used:

paper, watercolours, gouache

Tags:
#landscape #poetry #black #illustration #watercolors #poem #graphic novels #literature #mandelstam 
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I worked as a professional painter and sculptor in Italy since 1990. I use many different materials and techniques in my works, including recycled materials (like old books, cardboard boxes,... Read more

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