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Alla fine del cammin

2023; American Chemical Society; Volume: 101; Issue: 40 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1021/cen-10140-editorial

2474-7408

Rick Mullin,

Diverse academic and cultural studies

This is a guest editorial by Rick Mullin , a senior editor on C&EN's business team. The first time I encountered a painting by the Belarusian artist Chaim Soutine, I was repulsed. I had no point of reference. It was a landscape edging so close to abstraction that it crossed the line in a lot of places. The color, the texture . . . incomprehensible, if weirdly familiar. Plus, I'd never heard of him. Soutine? I ran to the nearest Matisse. Six years later, my biographical novel Soutine (written in the Italian poetic form of terza rima) was published. This passage of devotion had a lot to do with my being a painter and a poet. It took place midway in my journey at C&EN— nel mezzo del cammin , as Dante Alighieri put it in the opening line of his terza rima classic, Inferno . That journey, which pushed