Poetic Comments On The Greatest Painters

[Lauren Hynde]

Really like this poem, and particularly love the last line. I like the addition of 'idle' to 'feather dusters' and 'diligence' to the 'wavering palms'. It all suggests work not being done, of people indulging in a fatal leisure, of them breaking apart as they dive in, the water having more resilience and density than they. Great stuff! Maybe better as a poem than Hockney's works are as paintings.

Thank you, Eluard.

By the way, I believe that the problem with the image you tried to post is that the site where it is hosted is banned from Literotica. If you find the image elsewhere, or find a different host, you should have no problem. I'd love to see it, as I'm not as familiar with de Chirico as with some of his colleagues.

 

[MTVM]

According to Thomas Kinkade, a woderful artist, remote areas may be very dangerous for picture snapping, but, nonetheless, entirely safe. They can make for beautiftyul pictures anyway.

As a prominhgy contermptory artist, Kincadp paints and displays patings of merit sna wonder. Thoas Kinkade illustrates this here. The brooklyn Bridge is repolendendt in color and artisty in and

A bllod red sky! A mud
of color. Here, a tug
asunder, under span.
Brooklyn picture. Ach! Trepanne.[/indent]A;; is one.

 

[MTVM]

According to Thomas Kinkade, a woderful artist, remote areas may be very dangerous for picture snapping, but, nonetheless, entirely safe. They can make for beautiftyul pictures anyway.

As a prominhgy contermptory artist, Kincadp paints and displays patings of merit sna wonder. Thoas Kinkade illustrates this here. The brooklyn Bridge is repolendendt in color and artisty in and

A bllod red sky! A mud
of color. Here, a tug
asunder, under span.
Brooklyn picture. Ach! Trepanne.A;; is one.

 

[Eluard]

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[WynEternal]

Thanks for the welcome and encouragement.

I am enjoying this thread immensely. The combination of pictures and mental imagery producing words is such a delight. I'm looking at these works of art in ways I haven't before.

I hope to contribute more.

--APWB

 

[poppy1963]

Thanks for the welcome and encouragement.

I am enjoying this thread immensely. The combination of pictures and mental imagery producing words is such a delight. I'm looking at these works of art in ways I haven't before.

I hope to contribute more.

--APWB

Me, too, Wyn! I am loving it all...there are so many artists, paintings and interpretations/reactions to the art and artists. I hope this thread goes a long time so we can compare the reactions of others to the same works of art or artists eventually...more anonymously than we can now because all is so "right there accessible".

Thanks again, TMV...you really hit a winner in this idea!!!

 

[WynEternal]

I've spent the last few hours starting, on and off, at the intense and haunting eyes of Leonardo in his self portrait. Here's what it compelled me to write.

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They say the eyes are the windows of the soul.
So what of your soul do you show,
Leonardo.

Their startling clarity,
Their depth of life,
Your eyes are alive!

The thoughts that went on
In the mind behind the eyes
Of the artist, the inventor, the scientist.

What more would you have done
If eternity did not deprive,
From you, the breath of life?

 

[poppy1963]

I've spent the last few hours starting, on and off, at the intense and haunting eyes of Leonardo in his self portrait. Here's what it compelled me to write.

------

They say the eye are the windows of the soul.
So what of your soul do you show?
Leonardo.

Their startling clarity,
Their depth of life,
Your eyes are alive!

The thoughts that went on
In the mind behind the eyes
Of the artist, the inventor, the scientist.

What more would you have done
If eternity did not deprive,
From you, the the breath of life?

Now I have to go stare into his eyes, Wyn...lol.

Your words are very evocative to me at this time in my life...because one does wonder about such things...at certain times in life...when looking into certain eyes.



A few minutes later...a comment or two.

Hmmm...it's different when you really look and notice, isn't it? His eyes seem almost vacant to me...face muscles taut and mouth set in an almost bitter frown...weary and a bit annoyed he looks to me...I'm going back now.

 

[WynEternal]

Now I have to go stare into his eyes, Wyn...lol.

Your words are very evocative to me at this time in my life...because one does wonder about such things...at certain times in life...when looking into certain eyes.



A few minutes later...a comment or two.

Hmmm...it's different when you really look and notice, isn't it? His eyes seem almost vacant to me...face muscles taut and mouth set in an almost bitter frown...weary and a bit annoyed he looks to me...I'm going back now.

I have a habit of looking into eyes.

This book I have has two self portraits, one in his younger days, and his last one. The one I was looking at was the younger painting. His eyes are scowling and his mouth is set in grim determination. At least that's what it looks like to me.

His Last Self Portrait, does look vacant and weighed down.

I'm not sure which one you found.

 

[poppy1963]

I have a habit of looking into eyes.

This book I have has two self portraits, one in his younger days, and his last one. The one I was looking at was the younger painting. His eyes are scowling and his mouth is set in grim determination. At least that's what it looks like to me.

His Last Self Portrait, does look vacant and weighed down.

I'm not sure which one you found.

I haven't looked at his self-portraits to really look at Da Vinci...I've seen this one around...and just saw a picture of an old man who looked like what I used to think God looked like...an old man with lots of hair and an unhappy expression looking at me. I didn't linger there too long...

Here is the one you were looking at I believe ^^^.

 

[TMV]

This is not a critique!!!

I love you ladies to an incredible degree because of your fascinating skills..., But I must intervene with a bit of history here. Leonardo did not stop due to age and death. He suffered a stroke and could not create his ingenious panoply of masterfully intuitive works. His body failed him in his last years of life. But then, apparently history needed all of the man it could take, and it was more than enough.

BTW, did anyone read the story where they recently found his studio in a walled off section of a house? Imagine..., it had been there for hundreds of years...., undisturbed.

A chill went up my spine.

And that section of the house was never touched or discovered until now..................................................

 

[Eluard]

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[WynEternal]

BTW, did anyone read the story where they recently found his studio in a walled off section of a house? Imagine..., it had been there for hundreds of years...., undisturbed.

A chill went up my spine.

And that section of the house was never touched or discovered until now..................................................

Indeed, I did not know how he died. My thanks for the education.

As to the walled off section, what did they find? Can you imagine secretly working, in the long hours of the night, cutting up decomposing cadavers, all in the name of scientific knowledge?

 

[Liar]

You do what you want
with shovels and wood,
with canvas and brush
and impeccable ambition.

But the wind claims its own,
once summer tranquils
drift south.

 

[WynEternal]

Fact is, paintings have long been one of my prime inspirations for writing. So here is another one, the poem and the painting that inspired it.


On van Eycks Madonna of Chancellor Rolin


<SNIP>

I usually find myself running away as fast as can from any mention of Euclid (residual nightmares of high school), but this made it all so beautiful.

And the rest of the poetic commentary... marvelous.

 

[Eluard]

I usually find myself running away as fast as can from any mention of Euclid (residual nightmares of high school), but this made it all so beautiful.

And the rest of the poetic commentary... marvelous.

Thanks WynE. That is very kind of you to say.

 

[TMV]

Actually different than that........

Indeed, I did not know how he died. My thanks for the education.

As to the walled off section, what did they find? Can you imagine secretly working, in the long hours of the night, cutting up decomposing cadavers, all in the name of scientific knowledge?

As it was, It came to be his studio. He would do his inspections of the cadavers at mortuaries. With religion being so fiercely protective of the dead back then, his studies of the human anatomy had to be done on the sly. If he had been caught by anyone who objected, he would have been tried and convicted of God knows what crimes.

His studio was discovered after they tore down a wall that the owner wanted to remodel for the building. All this time and no one realized that there was a part of the building beyond the living space. No one even looked at the plans that left so much space untouched. No one had the perception to see that there was more than accounted for in the floor plan!

They found his paints, easal, sketches, writings and studies, books, pens and a wealth of stuff that they are going to take years to study. But they did say the sketches were Leonardo's, and they are infinitely valuable because they had been unknown until now!

And so, what other discoveries are there to find in neglected parts of cities and the world. It makes the imagination feverish with anticpation!

 

[Eluard]

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[wildsweetone]

Here is another. I'll post the painting later — though there are lots to choose from in this case.



For Max Ernst

Bird-girl, the pinhole camera studies your eclipse.
Bird-girl, where is your Arabia now?
Bird-girl, the summer is dark and shut down
And this is all that remains.

So many are blessed, why not you?
Who have you hurt, who have you not invited?
The night you are beyond is as steep as a hill
And winds like a clock in forbidden rooms

You climb towards.
Who is the face at the window
Now that you are sworn for the salad of faceless dreams,
Now that you are penitent water?

God sent nothing but the word 'God' to you, saying
'I have nothing that could die for you,
But here, here is a word that you may rest your cheek on,
As you lie in the cold of everything I am.'



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i didn't know this painter. thanks for this post, neighbour

i like this one...

 

[Eluard]

Very nice watercolor WSO! But my God, that is so unlike his usual style!

 

[wildsweetone]

Very nice watercolor WSO! But my God, that is so unlike his usual style!

that's what i thought too. i found it here: http://images.google.co.nz/imgres?i...firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N but can't read what it says.

found this too:

 

[Eluard]

Yes, all of the people you'd expect him to like given his style. But that sure is a lot of fonts he has used there!

Here is something much more typical of Ernst's style. (His paintings are often genuinely frightening.)

 

[wildsweetone]

Yes, all of the people you'd expect him to like given his style. But that sure is a lot of fonts he has used there!

Here is something much more typical of Ernst's style. (His paintings are often genuinely frightening.)

there are certainly some very odd paintings.

i wonder at the state of his mind.

 

[Eluard]

there are certainly some very odd paintings.

i wonder at the state of his mind.

He's a 20th century Bosch — lots of devils in his paintings. He is certainly one of the greatest of the Surrealists — much better than Dali IMO (though Dali had some great sketches that hardly anyone knows). I'll try and find the actual painting that inspired the poem. Ah here it is.

 

[TMV]

that's what i thought too. i found it here: http://images.google.co.nz/imgres?i...firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N but can't read what it says.

found this too:

I read a little german and from what I can gather is that "The Max Ernst Museum gives a presentation sort of (named) station of his Dada-ist activist style in the Rheinland (or Germany). Bringing interest in the movement of surrealist in Frankreich. Then exiled to the U.S.A., eventually making a comeback in Europe in 1953." The rest gets a little tougher to read and I'm trying to use a German-English translator and not getting much help. From what I think might said here is that he attended a convention on some kind of perfection and technical styles of art. I think he might have gone to some college and learned something about "Frontage" and "Graftage". What that means, maybe someone else might help. I'm not sure, but I think "Graftage" might be a foreign word for Abstract art. Then I found translation for "an invitation to show/produce a fascinating (something or other) and did so with irony and humor" and something broken. I afraid I'm lost in more of it, and then there is a spot that mentions his wife (future?) Dorothea Tannen. Something about "over 700 documented/documentation photograph's". Ok, I think I figured out another word, and that he loved getting international and private showings.

I'm sorry, but that's about the best I can give you. Apparently, there's alot in german that needs to be connected to make a sentence. And that is all i can gather.

BTW, I'm loving the living heck out of this! And MTVM is a shade of someone who is trying to degrade what we are trying to do here. If you want, tap his moniker and when you get his window, tap, "put on your ignore list" and it will move to the next window and confirm by tapping "Submit". I already have.