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Procida, Italy II, Italian Landscape Painting
4/19/2009 1:05:28 AM
by Keiko Tanabe - Comment on this
Topics: Boats | Italian Landscapes | Sold Works | Waterscapes
When I want to watch the movie with a very touching story and breath-taking sceneries, "Il Postino" is always one of my top choices.
This Italian film is about Mario, a naive mail carrier and how his meeting with Pablo Neruda, a famous Chilean poet, changed his life. It blew my mind in many ways when I first saw it, and I watched it many times thereafter (Click here to read a related post on Neruda's Poetry).
One of the things that captivated me so strongly was a setting of this film: A poor Italian fishing village on a tiny island in the 1950's. Maybe a place like this doesn't exist in today's Italy any more, but when I finally visited Procida last year, I felt like I came back to an island I had known for a long time.
Procida, Italy II
Media: Original watercolor on paper
Image Size: 7.5 x 9.5 in.
Mat/Frame: Yes
Purchase: Private Collection
