Posting art from every European country, day 1: Albania. Paintings by Vangjush Mio (1891-1957)

by ArthRol

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  1. Random Albanian poem:

    “Under the flags of melancholy” by Migjeni (1911-1938)
    translated by Robert Winton

    In our country

    there are rather

    sorry-looking banners flapping

    everywhere…

    … and no-one can say if

    this is a state

    really trying to create

    something new-born.

    Somewhere behind

    the banners

    you can find grey men

    desperately trying

    alchemy, a death-defying

    effort to turn hope into glory,

    to turn huff and puff into magic!

    But all that we see

    (and this is a little tragic)

    Is merely a flea.

    This farce has shattered

    the joy of that February night

    and, as if out of spite,

    we crumbled.

    Over the hunched men in cafés

    And the chilly girls on Nënë Terezë

    the banners flap and droop

    looking rather sorry.

  2. Finally, real art instead of the AI created “art”

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