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Dipinto da Viaggio of Mauro Betti , a poem by Bernadette in English and Chinese

( edited and rewritten in Italian by Mauro Betti )

Dipinto portatile, piccolo,

uno quadrato,il più grande è meno di 20 cm.e anche il più piccolo è quadrato.

molto piccolo, uno tondo,

Il tondo è alla sinistra, leggermente in alto,

affiancando la tela centrale, rosa e celeste.

La piccola si trova invece alla destra in basso, in certo modo sopra la rosa e celeste, come buoni amici.

dinamico e sono nell'attesa della piccola luna piena, solo per poter cantare qualcosa di misterioso e profetico.

Questi tre piccoli amici , parlano in tono soave,

Poi all'improvviso, vediamo il gemello dell'arcobaleno: la speranza si tinge di rosso e bianco.

Sembra che indichi qualcosa, soprattutto quando passa la tempesta di color nero,dopo una ricerca della propria anima.

Ma poi quel piccolo amico, umile, è lì, solo, per interagire col suo fratello,grande e rosa.

Allora una luce sembra essere presente, non solo, ma è una luce del rosso:amore che mantiene la promessa eterna.

Sembra quasi avere in sé, il potere di abbracciare il proprio universo interiore,con un rosso di eterno amore.

Così, ispira il piccolo a possedere un'anima poetica. Il celeste, in fondo, vede il dialogo silenzioso tra i due fratelli, con parole dettate dal cuore.

Sono tre dipinti?

Il rapporto tra questi elementi, è intimo, quasi magico.

Tre amici?

Tre alter ego?

Un trittico antico ?

Ecco, è l'intimo dialogo del dipinto da viaggio del mio professore Mauro Betti.

O semplicemente una nuova versione dei dipinti d'altare del nostro rinascimento?

In the eighties when I was a painting student at the Florence Academy Of Fine Arts, my Professor Loffredo happened to be sick for sometime. To replace him, a young Professor named Mauro Betti came during those periods when Loffredo was absent. We students were surprised to find the openness of this young Professor, who was always available to help out and give us encouragement.

Years passed and most of my professors have retired, or close to a hundred years old. It was , therefore， so nice to find Professor Mauro still there, as if his presence there had the power to bring back the happy memories I had at the Academia di Belle ArtI di Firenze.

So during a quick sort of lunch Break, we managed to chat a little bit about the past as well as getting updated with each other’s works.

The catalogue given to me by Professor Mauro has a little piece of work that caught my attention: it is a sort of triptych, but partly superimposing one another.

i found it very intriguing.

They are meant to be portable, according to the old traditions when portable paintings were made when one had to travel- they were either icons or later , panel paintings during the Renaissance, I gathered.

So I wrote a little poem, to commemorate this piece of interesting work and of my visit to the Academy after thirty years

Travelling Paintings of Mauro Betti

Portable paintings

Small

Very small scale paintings

One circular

One square

-The biggest

Not larger than cm20

The smallest

Another square canvas

The circular one placed on top left corner of the pink and sky blue square canvas

The smaller one placed on the lower right hand side

On top of the central pink and sky blue canvas

As friends

These three small panels

As friends who speak to each other

In tones

Soft yet dynamic

Like the circular spot of black

Where the tiny circle of moon like shape

Announces something

Mysterious

Then all of a sudden

Instead of a rainbow up on the top

We see a twin element of hope

Red and white

As if

After the sky dark as velvet

Deep in thoughts

All of a sudden

Will meet the brightest light

And a loving-red that gives lasting promise

With the sharpest edge of eloquence

The other tiny friend

Small and almost

Humble

Sitting there

Awaits of an interaction

With his twin brother

A big brother

Whose pinkish presence

Seems to sweep across his inner universe with a loving redness that is born within

which never fades

In order that

This tiny brother

Of a humble origin

Could speak a language

That is balanced

Yet articulated

From the pale sky blue

These two brothers communicate to each other

Without words

Yet the words are

There

Within

The close relationship of these three canvases is intimate and almost secretive

Are they

three canvases

Three friends

Three selves

are they three panels

Of the

Old days

Such as a triptych

Or even a new version of the sacred

Altarpiece

A Renaissance past?

Such is the strength of the dialogue

Of the three intimate panels

Of my Professor

Mauro Betti

Thank you Professor

For such a beautiful catalogue and

The story you told me about your portable painting

Happy painting

Bernadette Kam Fu Lee

24/05/2018

Mauro Betti之旅途畫

可攜帶的畫

細小

細小非常的畫兒

一幅是圓的

一幅是方的

最大的

也不過是20cm之下

最小的那幅哩

也是方型的

圓型那幅緊貼在粉紅及天藍色的大方型畫之左上角

小的那幅放在右下邊

出位的貼著那放在中央的粉紅與天藍那一幅

如友人般

這三幅畫兒

如友人般的你我訴說心中情

靜靜的，排山倒海式的

有如那黑色圓點

正在等待那小小圓月來給我們

宣唱

一些

神秘的預言

驀然

我們雖沒看到彩虹

但仍看到彩虹的孖生兄弟：希望

紅與白

就像在説

黑絨天後

深思慮過後

又會在一瞬間

再見光明

更見那有著愛的紅—永恆承諾

另外那位朋友

細小

卑微

正坐在那兒

等侍與孖生兄長

談心

穿著粉紅色的兄長

像是有著

那永不腿色的愛的紅

好使

他的小弟

那卑微的弟弟

能細説

如詩般的心中情

天藍色的背景

在見證這兩兄弟的

無言

有言的

心中真情

這三幅畫的關係

既親切又神妙

究竟它們是三幅畫

三個友人

三個不同的我

又抑或是

如古時西方的三聯畫

一種

文藝復興朝聖畫的新演繹？

如此這般的出色

這三幅畫兒互訴的心中情

乃是我的教授Mauro Betti 的作品