Michael Handt

Evening at the sea

Oil on canvas

Michael Handt - Last Light in the Forest

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Oil paintings by Michael Handt

Painting by Michael Handt

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"Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent."

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves

(English Literature)

2019, Michael Handt, Another study on Schikaneder

Michael Handt

‘Moonlight’ - Art by: Michael Handt

Michael Handt

Moonlight, 2022

Oil on canvas

Michael Handt - Moonlight

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I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

Richey Edwards

"Nocturnal Studies" Michael Handt

Michael Handt “Last Light in the Forest”, 2018 Oil on canvas, 100cm x 80cm

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“The poet W.S. Merwin was once asked what social role a poet plays—if any—in America. He commented: “I think there’s a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there’s still time. I think that’s a social role, don’t you? ... We keep expressing our anger and our love, and we hope, hopelessly perhaps, that it will have some effect. But I certainly have moved beyond the despair, or the searing, dumb vision that I felt after writing The Lice; one can’t live only in despair and anger without eventually destroying the thing one is angry in defense of. The world is still here, and there are aspects of human life that are not purely destructive, and there is a need to pay attention to the things around us while they are still around us. And you know, in a way, if you don’t pay that attention, the anger is just bitterness.”

[The Poet Who Planted Trees]

I – Fishing Under the Stars digital painting by Joseph Feely .

II – Moonlight by Michael Handt.

Michael Handt "Last Light in the Forest", 2018 Oil on canvas, 100cm x 80cm

Moonlit Night in the Carinthian Alps by Adolf Chwala ❦ Moonlight by Michael Handt