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‘Don’t be ashamed to be human, be proud!'” \u00a0 Romanesque Arches<\/p>\n
Discussed Tomas Transtormer and his poetry today with two docents, Jane McKenzie and Jean-Marie. \u00a0Shows how meager my grasp of contemporary poetry is. \u00a0I’d not heard of him, a Swedish Nobel Prize Winner, and a damn fine poet. \u00a0His work has a crystalline edge, images cut with words as facets.<\/p>\n
“The man on a walk suddenly meets the old<\/p>\n
giant oak like an elk turned to stone with<\/p>\n
its enormous antlers against the dark green castle wall<\/p>\n
of the fall ocean.” \u00a0 Storm<\/p>\n
His poetry suggests a tour focused on image. \u00a0What is an image? \u00a0How do we know one? What is the same, what is different between the image of a poet and the image of a painter? \u00a0Of poet and sculptor? \u00a0Of poet and photographer? \u00a0What is there about an image that makes us yearn to create them, remember them, see them, hear them?<\/p>\n
The Matisse exhibition shows an artist focused on and struggling with this very question. How can I use paint, color, line to say woman, flower, wall? \u00a0Is it different if I ask the same question of bronze and clay? \u00a0Who might guide me? \u00a0Van Gogh? \u00a0Cezanne? \u00a0Seurat? \u00a0Monet? \u00a0Early in his career he answers yes to all these guides and works to see the world through their eyes, yet imprint it, too, with his own vision.<\/p>\n
Due to a collecting idiosyncrasy of the Cone sisters (patronnesses of both Matisse and the Baltimore museum) the show jumps from his experimental years and works in a mid-career but still formative stage to the bright lights of the last gallery, the wonderful prints from his book, Jazz, and other colorful pieces. \u00a0This is a joyful painter who thought long and hard about his work, wanting it to appear effortless.<\/p>\n
Matisse took line and color to reveal the essence of image. \u00a0And he makes it look easy and the human beings in his work are proud, just as the angel whispered they should be.<\/p>\n
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