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THE DISTURBED, THE MISUNDERSTOOD AND THE MELANCHOLIC

by Alan Todd | Aug 26, 2022 | Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting

  Federico Garcia-Lorca wrote that ‘at the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy’.          Melancholy ……….a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause. He was writing as a poet, but any number of blues musicians would probably agree...

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