Blues

January 7, 2021 3 Comments

I am a failure.

In more ways than one, but today I am thinking of my ignorance about modern abstractionism.

Yup, literally ignorant.

Give me some Greek and Romans, I can wing it.

Nike, Goddess of Victory….

Give me some 16th century angels, I can sermonize.

Gerard David, Virgin and Child with Four Angels ca 1510-1515 (Netherlandish)

18th century Blue Boy? I’ll wax poetically

Thomas Gainsborough, The Blue Boy, 1770

Give me Victorian fairies and lions, and I’ll start telling tales.

Briton Riviere, Una and Lion from Spensers Fairy Tales, 1889

Give me a modernist nude, and I’ll launch into elongated discourse.

Amedeo Modigliani, Nude on a Blue Cushion, 1917

Give me Paul Klee, and I’ll become expressive to the point of sounding surreal.

Paul Klee, Landschaft mit blauen und roten Bäumen, 1920

Show me photographic portraits of the 1930s and I might just click.

Dorothea Lange, Children from Oklahoma staying in a migratory camp in California, November 1936.

 

Manga Lady Bat? I’ll hum you a Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch Pure.

Modern abstractionism? You’ll have to wait until your’re blue in the face. Or, alternatively, you and I can watch and learn from this marvelous gem about Jackson Pollock and his painting Blue Poles.

Photographs today are street art from Seattle, WA in which I only kept the blues.

Music is a warhorse. So what. The title did it.

January 8, 2021

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3 Comments

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    Julie Moore

    January 7, 2021

    I love the way you take me somewhere unexpected and the ride today was bliss … ✨💚✨

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    carol newman

    January 7, 2021

    Love it… and You! Just what I needed today.
    Gratitude and blessings, carol near astoria

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    Louise A Palermo

    January 7, 2021

    Today you were brilliant!

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