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Archive for 2011
Rembrandt Portrait With (By) Elephant
February 6, 2011You Can Fit A Lot Under A Hat Like That (Rembrandt With Elephant)
February 6, 2011
Rembrandt Van Rasta?
“Art Appreciation”: You Can Find Them Anywhere. (Even Orleans?)
February 5, 2011
"Joan of Arc (With Elephant"), Jules Bastien-LePage (with Karin Gustafson) (At the Met.)
When I was a child, I was transfixed by this painting. First, I loved Joan of Arc; secondly, the surface is so smooth and photographic, it seemed inconceivable to me that it could have actually been painted. When you are little, you tend to be a sucker for technique. And drama. (Ah, drama!) And crazy eyes.
Here’s a poem inspired by it, and others of a slightly similar ilk. (Ah drama!)
Art Appreciation
Sebastian run with arrows pierced the halls,
reaming eye and mind’s eye too
with piteous wounds, his pale trunk
like the finest china except it dripped.
The visitor, a child, struggled to replace him with
inspired skin, a hand around a
candle, glow within,
(Georges de la Tour plunging in.)
Farther afield (a continent and several galleries away),
she found a Joan of Arc, whose eyes beamed
kaleidoscopically against Pre-Raphaelite bark,
a silvered willow. Caught
inside that psychedelic gleam,
she became a connoisseur.
(As always, all rights reserved.)
(Also as always, if you like poetry, check out “Going On Somewhere” by Karin Gustafson, Diana Barco, and Jason Martin on Amazon. If you like elephants, check out 1 Mississippi.)
Madonna, Child, Elephant, Skylight. (You can find them anywhere?)
February 4, 2011
Italy–elephants. Some think of Hannibal; others of productions of Aida at the Roman Coliseum; others of Berlusconi staying endlessly in office. And then, there are those minds that conjure up the Madonna and Child.
I am embarrassed to say that, in my ManicDDaily way, I did not jot down the name of this artist, and cannot find the image among the hundreds of Madonna and Childs in the online catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum. All I can say is that it’s located in one of the galleries with a skylight.
I guess I’ll just have to go back.
Have a wonderful weekend, and if you like fine art (as in wonderful drawings), don’t forget to check out “Going on Somewhere” with illustrations by Diana Barco, cover by Jason Martin, poetry by Karin Gustafson, on Amazon. (Buy one!) And if you like elephants, check out 1 Mississippi by Karin Gustafson, also on Amazon. (Buy another!) (P.S. If price is an issue, let me know–I know someone who can get them for you wholesale.)
Fine Art With Elephants
February 3, 2011
The sun is so bright through my window this morning as to block out almost everything shadowed and worrisome in my and the world. Which leads me to Fine Art. With Elephants.
Check out, if you haven’t seen them, the last few posts. A trip to the Metropolitan Museum has led, so far, to:
Cezanne with Elephant
Courbet with Elephant (and little white dog i,e, Pearl)!
I’m concerned that this is only the beginning. Have brush (or Brushes app), will elephant.
(For original fine art, check out the wonderful illustrations of Diana Barco in my new book of poetry “Going on Somewhere”, by Karin Gustafson, Diana Barco, and Jason Martin on Amazon. And buy it for someone for Valentine’s Day! It has lots of love poems and is cheaper, even, than reasonable chocolate.)
PS – I’m not quite sure why the links are different colors. (Agh.)
What To Write About Today February 2, 2011–Seeing the Shadow
February 2, 2011The attraction that we humans have for the electronic is always somewhat amazing to me. I was going to write about that today.
(Yes, I know I should probably write something about what’s going on in Egypt, but seeing the peaceful, hope-filled, protests provoked by violence into violence in order to justify/mask repression is just too sad for me.)
So, let’s go back to the electronic. (Avoiding, however, topics, like the jamming of the internet, and cattle prods used on humans, which both involve electricity, qualify as abuses/repression, but hardly seem to fit together into the same sentence, much less into a paragraph about the love of humans for the electronic. )
I was going to add in something about elephants. About, for example, the oddness of my own attraction to an electronic screen, in this case my iPhone, especially to drawing on it (elephants) when truly I draw so much better on plain old paper.
(It just seems incredibly trivial in light of what’s happening in the Middle East–stones and knives and wounds and worse wounds, crack downs, heads, hearts.)
Peek-a-(boo)-so! (You Can Find Them Anywhere.)
February 2, 2011
"At the Lapin Agile" With Elephant By You know Who
The title of this post is a joke; it really is–i.e. it’s been a long week and it’s only Wednesday.
You Can Find Them Anywhere (Even on the High Seas?!)
February 1, 2011
Ahoy!
Have sail, will elephant.
Thank you, J.M.W. Turner.
You Can Find Them Anywhere (Even in the South of France?)
January 31, 2011
Elephant courtesy of ManicDDaily, iPhone and New York City Subway system; genius courtesy of Paul Cezanne (on exhibit at the Met).
You Can Find Them Anywhere. (At the Met?)
January 31, 2011Courbet re-visited. Or…errr… visited. (At the Metropolitan Museum in NYC.)
Elephant cow?
Pearl feels out of place.
For a very little more on Courbet–rather, for a poem of gratitude to Courbet–check out “Going on Somewhere” by Karin Gustafson, Diana Barco, and Jason Martin, on Amazon now!
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