tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post7071792659238714103..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: A Few Steps BackUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-16525158147836335882011-02-13T09:25:55.977-08:002011-02-13T09:25:55.977-08:00Marcia,
While the city always feels like a densel...Marcia,<br /><br />While the city always feels like a densely overcrowded space, at the same time, oddly, the spaces that have occupied the mind of late, it seems, have been -- as your comment causes me instantly to recognize -- empty, empty...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-40858251966983330732011-02-13T07:34:25.946-08:002011-02-13T07:34:25.946-08:00Very interesting thought, Elmo. One dimension, tha...Very interesting thought, Elmo. One dimension, that of Kirchner's weirdly penetrating vision, laid over another, entirely different dimension, that of the global elite summit, like a kind of ghostly transparency.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-59650162805105466712011-02-13T07:32:16.030-08:002011-02-13T07:32:16.030-08:00Tom,
Recently we flew over a cold, snow-covered l...Tom,<br /><br />Recently we flew over a cold, snow-covered landscape, and I kept wondering how one would paint that scene. I no longer have to wonder -- Kirshner did it. His paintings and your words hit the mark. I also love the abandoned home and grain elevators paired with Goldsmith's words -- "children leave the land." In Effigy, the prairie photos are lovely and the poem, well -- the "eye" becomes as important as the "I." Carl Mydan's work shows such bleakness...how little do we learn from the past...Marciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17150292834089323928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-47063985427060961962011-02-13T05:52:40.872-08:002011-02-13T05:52:40.872-08:00wonderful Kirchner posts
I wonder if the economic...wonderful Kirchner posts<br /><br />I wonder if the economic<br />elite who meet at Davos<br />have ever seen his paintings<br />and if they have<br />that he committed suicide<br />soon after the Nazis destroyed<br />some of his work and declared<br />him, "a degenerate artist"<br /><br />but then the Nazis never understood<br />the creative German spirit<br />best described as the <br />Beethoven FactorElmo St. Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01588245143022651357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-20924168108289622072011-02-13T05:31:28.559-08:002011-02-13T05:31:28.559-08:00The boldness, and the confidence in trusting to th...The boldness, and the confidence in trusting to the mystery of the unknown within the visible, in that upstairs snowy landscape, are thrilling and inspiring.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88917236151166250752011-02-12T14:01:56.149-08:002011-02-12T14:01:56.149-08:00Reading A Few Steps Back and viewing the two Kirch...Reading A Few Steps Back and viewing the two Kirchners helped focus and clarify my feelings about some things that have been gnawing at me today. The poem builds naturally and logically and ends really beautifully. It's great to see Kirchner here again; obviously his inclusion is keyed by the writing, but still it seems appropriately seasonal, like the return of a treasured remembered item to a restaurant menu. I love the bottom picture with more figuration, but the upper picture, Snowy Landscape, is unbelievable. As the heavy-duty cold medication begins to hit me, I think Snowy Landscape and A Few Steps Back will remain in the front of my brain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-72269710804276097382011-02-12T11:27:11.236-08:002011-02-12T11:27:11.236-08:00again and in an addendum to:
if I was going be pa...again and in an addendum to:<br /><br />if I was going be painting ... landscapes I'd have<br /><br />in my "formative/naive" youth I'd most certainly have<br />imitated this guy's "stuff"<br /><br />;on-the-way-to-my-own Way<br /><br />another great/original landscape artist <br />and I can't find the landscape painting that he did (around 1960) that has been considered the "perfect"<br />landscape<br /><br />but it was done about the same time his "The Sheep Farm"<br />was done .... Balthus.<br /><br />and<br /><br />isn't at "rock-bottom" ALL painting/poetry/literature<br />more or less ...Landscape .... merely ?Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.com