Pragmatism – A Poem

PRAGMATISM

Obnoxious
Noxious
Raucous
Boisterous

Senselessness
Carelessness
Meanness
Genus

Separate but equal
Never fear the sequel
Freedom less freedom
Love at a game of living

Wait
Acerbate
Alternate
Huge cake take the hake

Only in only out
Many Egypts
Many spouts
Many mishaps many frights

Sever the rest
Even at best
Usually nonsense
conceptually fuzzy

That’s
How
It
Does.

Direction- A Poem

DIRECTION

Direction
Interception
Mode of
Corruption

House of
Rapture
What a
Combustion

Counted
Passion
Mode of
Action

Direction
Completion
Reaction
Decomposition.

Teresa Lakier ©.

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh

Dutch painter, Vincent Willem van Gogh, was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. Wikipedia
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Is it Van Gogh or van Gogh?

Vincent Willem van Gogh (March 30, 1853 to July 29, 1890) was a post-impressionist painter whose work, notable for its beauty, emotion and color, highly influenced 20th-century art. He struggled with mental illness, and remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. Aug 14, 2017.

Key Ideas

Van Gogh’s dedication to articulating the inner spirituality of man and nature led to a fusion of style and content that resulted in dramatic, imaginative, rhythmic, and emotional canvases that convey far more than the mere appearance of the subject.
Although the source of much upset during his life, Van Gogh’s mental instability provided the frenzied source for the emotional renderings of his surroundings and imbued each image with a deeper psychological reflection and resonance.
Van Gogh’s unstable personal temperament became synonymous with the romantic image of the tortured artist. His self-destructive talent was echoed in the lives of many artists in the 20th century.
Van Gogh used an impulsive, gestural application of paint and symbolic colors to express subjective emotions. These methods and practice came to define many subsequent modern movements from Fauvism to Abstract Expressionism.

Legacy

Self-portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin(1888)

Self-portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin(1888)

Clear examples of Van Gogh’s wide influence can be seen throughout art history.

The Fauves and the German Expressionists worked immediately after Van Gogh and adopted his subjective and spiritually inspired use of color.

The Abstract Expressionists of the mid-20th century made use of Van Gogh’s technique of sweeping, expressive brushstrokes to indicate the artist’s psychological and emotional state. Even the Neo-Expressionists of the 1980s, like Julian Schnabel and Eric Fischl, owe a debt to Van Gogh’s expressive palette and brushwork.

In popular culture, his life has inspired music and numerous films, including Vincente Minelli’s Lust for Life (1956), which explores Van Gogh and Gauguin’s volatile relationship. In his lifetime, Van Gogh created 900 paintings and made 1,100 drawings and sketches, but only sold one painting during his career.

With no children of his own, most of Van Gogh’s works were left to brother Theo.

 

For more information, please visit: http://www.theartstory.org/artist-van-gogh-vincent.htm

Poem by Teresa

THE EYE

It’s hard
The eye
Of fervor
Deceptive
Accept
The delusionary
Compulsive
Legendary
Reminder
Of confounding
Misery
Clouds above
Accept
Above where you are
Where you belong
Where of where becoming
There is acceptance
Accept that maybe
Misery has gone
And that we must have
Love
Love of
Love for
You
Hopefully
Sound the sound
Let it ring
Dream if you will
Till you become
You who you are
That your
Eye has no doubt
Or recount
Shall it not allow
That to become what you will
What it is you will dream
Dream as a hunger still
That is a quenched recognizance
You
As the one who will become
The dream you see
See
See
See

 

2018 ©

Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer

 

Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer

 

Born: 20 November 1923, Springs, South Africa

Died: 13 July 2014, Johannesburg, South Africa

Residence at the time of the award: South Africa

Prize motivation: “who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity”

Field: prose

Language: English

Awards:

Nobel Prize in Literature
1991
Booker Prize
1974 · Le conservateur
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
1988 · A Sport of Nature
Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service
1981
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction
1971

 

Life

Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, South Africa. Her parents were Jewish immigrants; her father was from Latvia and her mother was from England. Nadine began writing at the age of nine, and was just 15 years old when her first work was published. The novel entitled The Conservationist (1974) gave her international breakthrough. Nadine Gordimer was involved in the anti-apartheid movement early on and several of her books were banned by the apartheid regime. She has lived and worked in Johannesburg, South Africa, since 1948.

Work

Nadine Gordimer’s works include novels, short stories, and essays. During the 1960s and 1970s she wrote a number of novels set against the backdrop of the emerging resistance movement against apartheid, while the liberated South Africa provides the backdrop for her later works, written in the 1990s. The stories of individuals are always at the center of her narratives, in relation to external limitations and frameworks. As a whole, Nadine Gordimer’s literary works create rich imagery of South Africa’s historical development.

 

Quotes

Truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
A desert is a place without expectation.

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse

 

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse

BORN: Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse
(1869-12-31)31 December 1869
Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord, France

DIED: 3 November 1954(1954-11-03) (aged 84)
Nice, Alpes-Martimes, France

NATIONALITY: French

EDUCATION: Académie Julian, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Gustave Moreau

NOTABLE WORK: Woman with a Hat (1905)
The Joy of Life (1906)
Nu bleu (1907)
La Danse (1909)
L’Atelier Rouge (1911)

MOVEMENT: Fauvism, Modernism, Post-Impressionism

QUOTES:

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
Exactitude is not truth.

Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor’s direct carving.

Seek the strongest color effect possible… the content is of no importance.

In modern art, it is undoubtedly to Cézanne that I owe the most.

 

LEGACY:

The first painting of Matisse acquired by a public collection was Still Life with Geraniums (1910), exhibited in the Pinakothek der Moderne.[59]

His The Plum Blossoms (1948) was purchased on 8 September 2005 for the Museum of Modern Art by Henry Kravis and the new president of the museum, Marie-Josée Drouin. Estimated price was US$25 million. Previously, it had not been seen by the public since 1970.[60] In 2002, a Matisse sculpture, Reclining Nude I (Dawn), sold for US$9.2 million, a record for a sculpture by the artist.

Matisse’s daughter Marguerite often aided Matisse scholars with insights about his working methods and his works. She died in 1982 while compiling a catalogue of her father’s work.[61]

Matisse’s son Pierre Matisse (1900–1989) opened a modern art gallery in New York City during the 1930s. The Pierre Matisse Gallery, which was active from 1931 until 1989, represented and exhibited many European artists and a few Americans and Canadians in New York often for the first time. He exhibited Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, André Derain, Yves Tanguy, Le Corbusier, Paul Delvaux, Wifredo Lam, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Balthus, Leonora Carrington, Zao Wou Ki, Sam Francis, sculptors Theodore Roszak, Raymond Mason, and Reg Butler, and several other important artists, including the work of Henri Matisse.[62][63]

Henri Matisse’s grandson Paul Matisse is an artist and inventor living in Massachusetts. Matisse’s great-granddaughter Sophie Matisse is active as an artist. Les Heritiers Matisse functions as his official Estate. The U.S. copyright representative for Les Heritiers Matisse is the Artists Rights Society.[64]

 

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Golda Meir

This is my blog. About poetry and people who inspire. That stand for something beautiful.

 

This month’s portrait:

 

Golda Meir

Golda Meir

Golda Meir

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 03, 1898 – Dec 08, 1978 (age 80)

 

Famous quotes:

Not being beautiful was the true blessing… Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
Being seventy is not a sin.
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
1913: In 1913 she had begun dating Morris Meyerson (Myerson).
1917: When Golda and Morris married in 1917, settling in Palestine was her precondition for the marriage.
1956: In 1956, she became Foreign Minister under Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.
1967: Meir maintained the national unity government formed in 1967, after the Six-Day War, in which Mapai merged with two other parties (Rafi and Ahdut      HaAvoda) to form the Israeli Labor party.
1969: Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister.
1978: On December 8, 1978, Meir died of lymphatic cancer in Jerusalem at the age of 80.
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