Edward Hopper, Morning Sun.

I looked Alchemy Surrealist painting as an essay on the amazing over the centuries. An essay in the form of poetry, written with the intention of making poetry. So this essay is the secondary element and emerges from the poet's place in front of the paintings described. Seventy after thirty-six authors and a thread which is not the surrealistic stark, but the power you have pictures to inspire poetry Lucio Giulodori. It is muse, insulation and isolation of a work of art, a two-dimensional figure through poetry, through the verse. This should, could, be a limit and instead offers us a great demonstration of aesthetic capacity.

This is the fascination of Surrealist alchemy that occurs through a robust exegesis by several authors Giuliodori on for ages and style, and not all located in the surrealist movement tout court. Interpretation influenced by esoteric elements, such as the noun Alchemy (which gives title to the work) suggests. Fantasy, madness, dream, achieve higher stages are conditions of literary production of the applicants Giulodori, which in this collection captures the beautiful visual art.

This is to see themselves, cleaned in a bath alchemical art. And 'that winds through the art attempting to image coding, deciphering the unknown, before and after our earthly existence. Thus was born the religion and so, at least until the time of their forced institutionalization, they tried not to give answers, but to lead to salvation, purification during life.

Nostalgia of the main character in Tarkovsky (Domiziana Jordan) asked, "What can happen?" and the clerk replied: "All I want, all you need." The next image is a painting by Piero della Francesca, the author preferred by Aldous Huxley. A Renaissance painter who posed mathematical rules with alchemy in his paintings and messages to decipher, think of the intense depth to which must be used to try to decipher the Bacci chapel in Arezzo, the Resurrection is so dear to Huxley and the Madonna del Parto.

Tarkovsky and Huxley through their art and try to interpret a codification of a snapshot, a picture. In addition to this Giuliodori through art encoding the dream and in his poetic essay identifies the potential of the combination of surrealism and the esoteric. It affects the incessant rhythm of certain words are repeated: dream, crosses boundaries, overcoming stage land. The poem describes using the third person singular of the verb to be. The work of art is. Your continued use of the preposition to, indicates the opening of a passage, a door, just as thought by Huxley: sublimation or reaching a higher stage, which is figuratively represented by flying upwards. ("Do not fall in the real / kingdom of the limit / deception ancestral")

Open the doors of perception, looking at everything through the third eye as mentioned in the preface to the book by Lia Bronzes, which identifies a historical event of breakage, when the esoteric aspect of religion is shattered, when Giordano Bruno was put to stake their culture and esoteric magic of all cults is suppressed. And such neglect continues for at least three centuries.

The pictures described by Giuliodori ranging from the sixteenth century to contemporary. It starts from predecessor Hieronymus Bosch painting surreal, surely inspired by the grotesque of the Domus Aurea and died the same way as Pinturicchio da Feltre (both mistreated by Vasari - how bad this art has hired mediocre, the forerunner of modern art critics) , and finally to the early Surrealists, who were part of the manifesto Breton as Magritte and Leonora Carrington.

Affect those contemporary authors, Valls, and also Palubinskas Von Foerster - Giuliodori used by almost all the covers of his books - because we can see from following the introduction of the moving image, the surrealist painting has changed.

The poetic style is akin to that of many contemporary American authors, first of all that in Mark Strand's "Edward Hopper" recounts the scenes of the great American painter. Giuliodori devotes one of his poems to a work of the same Hopper, an artist who superficially may seem an element of discontinuity with the main theme. Not so, Morning Sun is a wonderful poem by significant elevation of another author's work.

Surrealist Alchemy is another strong, high-drain Giuliodori Lucio, poet: "I was just a poet, but my purity is soiled looking at the real"

Diego Mencaroni