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The Reader, 1913
Marie Laurencin (1883-1956)
Of dashing men offering champagne,
The story spoke, snaring attention…
But familiar with fizzled endings,
The dog struggled to stop snoring.
– Bolbul
The Cinder Path, 1912
Spencer Gore (1878-1914)
The narrow cinder path upon
Clouds many had walked anon…
Radioed hearts light, hiding a song,
To come over and their mountainous company join.
- Bolbul
Untitled (Village Women), c 1970
N S Bendre (1910-92)
Generations of moments and evenings
Superimposed in a single setting,
Made the youth feel infinity,
Sure as their bare footing.
- Bolbul
Mrs Mounter at the Breakfast Table, 1917
Harold Gilman (1876-1919)
Every morning Mrs Mounter gave of herself… the plates took on the green of veins, the curtain stood unflapping, the coffee grind turned grittier and the two spoons of milk, spread the light of her eyes as if belonging to the sun and the moon.
- Bolbul
Professional Model (1933)
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-41)
There were moments when elle,
Would make light stand still…
So painters could observe how it fell
On skin, muscle and eyes… so beyond professional.
- Bolbul
The Garden, 1916
Henry Lyman Saÿen (1875-1918)
Disparaged yet with loving care,
They sowed wild patterns and colors
Such that their garden sans restraints…
Delights a hundred years later.
- Bolbul
The Blond Man, c 1912
Roger de La Fresnaye (1885-1925)
Roger’s friend, unlike a rube,
Digs art and wants it proved…
So the painter depicts the punchy dude
With the zest of a hearty cheese cube.
- Bolbul
Interior Scene, Norway possibly, c 1912
Harold Gilman (1876-1919)
The way to consume salmon is against a complementary green wall… in a stream of bubbly light. The journey of the fish, nurturing plants, and the currents then carries forward on the human plane, pulling travelers along.
– Bolbul
Artillery, 1911
Roger de La Fresnaye (1885-1925)
To arrays of horses, uniforms and cannons
Seeking annihilatory distinction among nations…
There soon would be humanitarian pageants,
Rather grander than this one!
– Bolbul
Lightning, 1924
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
When flowers melt into the air,
Sublimating their existence in translucent layers,
Sufic corollas… twirling they wear,
Holding spiritual red wine to share.
– Bolbul
Undergrowth, 1910
Roger de La Fresnaye (1885-1925)
The word was upon the breeze,
Hot gossip among the trees…
That the young man by the stream
Was a cubist equalling Cezanne’s dreams.
– Bolbul
Stenographic Figure, 1942
Jackson Pollock (1912-56)
Human form and characteristics,
Expressed in squiggles stenographic?…
Pollock did it and made it vivid!
– Bolbul
Gloxinias and Fuschias, 1938
John Duncan Fergusson (1874-1961)
The symmetry and tubular geometry,
The precise, corollated spread,
The pendulous, pigmented cascade
Suited oh so… the weave of a cubist thread.
– Bolbul
Landscape Paris, 1914
Henry Lyman Saÿen (1875-1918)
Chameleonic
It’s true that with seasons,
Like leaves buildings even
Change colors… if Parisian.
Which did more this autumn?
– Bolbul
Poise, 1916
John Duncan Fergusson (1874-1961)
The heavier the mass artistic,
The more shaped is space around it,
Colors too, refined and prismatic…
Add Fergusson to woman… for a room charged with static.
– Bolbul
Untitled (Bonfires), 1978
Zdzisław Beksinski (1929-2005)
‘Let’s make nations monolithic,
Channeling lavas instinctual and primitive’,
Hissed cabals to followers down-abyss…
‘Then eternal spring flowers pick!’
– Bolbul
Portrait of Francoise, 1949
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
In the look-back eyes and bold stripes,
Is modernity’s pluckiness described,
Independent yet serenely confident…
Or the force of mother and impending child?
– Bolbul
Woman and Canoe (1955)
David Park (1911-1960)
She understood that watchers misconstrue
The ways, to which she holds true…
A solitary but sunny canoe,
Subdued yet green, never blue.
– Bolbul
Red Clay Elephant, 1938
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-41)
Mud and clay are different in the way materialists are from the religious. Baked, painted and sculpted clay, as Lord Indra’s steed, symbolized further evolution into demigodliness. The villagers understood this… at least when approaching the elephant.
– Bolbul
On Good Friday, c 1890
Olga Boznanska (1865-1940)
What is the defining image of humanity… cornered peace and love while brutality rages out? Causes of conflicts are unreal… but to know the real, one must be on knees looking into their hearts.
– Bolbul
Reading, c 1920
Wojciech Weiss (1875-1950)
The leather cover was softly warm, allowing the preserved fine or coarse grain of the stories to become one with flesh and skin. Now if Wojciech texturized the light, the reader and the 19th century air of the stories, wouldn’t the art become a leather jacket for the moment?
- Bolbul
Figure in the Wind, 1944
Francoise Gilot (1921-)
The hair is brush, the wind paint,
Together shaping compositional elements…
Adding form to colors supine,
Thus elevating their intent.
– Bolbul
Woman in Blue with Red Necklace, c 1911
Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968)
A lake with black and white swans turned into a woman. Wonder-struck, folks watched her make waves silent. Composers and artists sought her company for inspiration. She needed no ornaments but once did accept a Valentine necklace.
– Bolbul
Roses, 1889
Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890)
Bending to leaves, the beetle and Van Gogh
These blooms with a pink white core,
Appear to share and show
That pedestalled on roughness, beauty highest rose.
– Bolbul
Self Portrait, 1902
Wojciech Weiss (1875-1950)
He wasn’t after capturing looks as much as the light… its every scintilla of pink glow… upon his brush tip. For he had the gift of being able to transfer them directly to canvas, bypassing paint tubes. That was for lesser artists.
– Bolbul
Violin and Checkerboard, 1913
Juan Gris (1887-1927)
In a reorganization kaleidoscopic,
Gris solves the violin’s equation cubic.
– Bolbul
Paula in Tunisian Dress, 1960
Francoise Gilot (1921-)
Unscorched
With the sun broiling chilies under flame,
With shade turning swiss cheese in form and name,
Paula, puffing hookah and sporting lace,
Too ups her chilling out game.
– Bolbul
The Kiss, 1893
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Not His
At the edge of red abyss,
Two women kiss
In their own way… not his!
Do they discover bliss?
– Bolbul
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Le Chat Aux Poissons Rouges, 1914
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
The cat sang to the aquarium…
‘Fish with a slice of lemon,’
Thrice… one by one by one.
– Bolbul
Poppies, 1963
Richard Diebenkorn (1922-93)
Although a flat surface,
Magically malleable is the space of canvas,
Lit by thought-lines,
Colored by a brush with guts.
– Bolbul
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885-86
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Between the coal tar of night
And the glare of day,
Imagination stops to pick a bouquet…
Where lanterns tattle, excitement on face.
– Bolbul
Le Vase Fond Rouge, 1958
Francoise Gilot (1921-)
Raking the canvas with a hand fork,
Seven seeds an inch apart she sowed…
Watering’em liberally with colors,
Soon she grew a vase of ‘palette flowers’.
– Bolbul
Portrait of Madame Matisse, 1913
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Blue signifies celestial peace
Not a revolution, reasons Matisse…
And proceeds to light a fire in it!
– Bolbul
View of Ocean with Palm Tree, 1958
Richard Diebenkorn (1922-93)
The mind is an ocean
Of colored concepts,
Of man-made and natural objects…
Housing scenes, palm trees and a far ocean.
– Bolbul
Drawing, 1970
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
A woman intentionally drawn,
Awaits a man withdrawn…
Fixating on his greatness,
Rising over the horizon.
– Bolbul
Young Girl with a Parrot, 1873
Berthe Morisot (1841-95)
Vibes
She meditates with the parrot
Gone eerily silent,
Composing and sharing perhaps
The flight lines of trapped poets.
– Bolbul
Woman before an Aquarium, 1921–23
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Her eyes – a contemplative aquarium,
Face of reflective glass,
Into which fishy-wishies look back…
From a pine scented solarium.
– Bolbul
Model, 1958
Mario Sironi (1885-1961)
Are not mud and stone,
With some light thrown,
Our flesh and bones?…
Thinks the model in duotone.
– Bolbul
La Lampada or The Lamp, 1919
Mario Sironi (1885-1961)
Should time march on paths sunlit
Or on those illuminated via an electric switch,
Thought the androgynous woman
Holding a twitch.
– Bolbul
Manet on the Isle of Wight, 1875
Berthe Morisot (1841-95)
‘Too bad she’s not a man’
Sighed her subject and lover once,
As over his mind, hung the curtain of time…
While Berthe made and stood in sunshine.
– Bolbul
White Village
Alfred Joseph Casson (1898-1992)
‘I feel warm light on the skin’,
The wind said coolly…
That made the listening water ripply
In a smile… and Alfred shed his woolies.
– Bolbul
Summer Evening, 1947
Edward Hopper (1882-1967)
Did a night… like coke warm,
Suggest, ‘I blend with peachy beauty
And a man who can afford rum?!’
– Bolbul
Shock Troops Advance under Gas, 1924
Otto Dix (1891-1969)
The evolution of human beings
Didn’t appear a pretty thing…
Mercifully, the artist could mute the slogan yelling.
– Bolbul
Home, Sweet Home, 1944
Victor Lundy (1923-)
Lads ride dreams to palm-lined shores,
Lazing in hammocks eyes closed…
But faster than a bullet would go,
His mind flew home in forty four…
– Bolbul
Ecstasy, 1947
Hans Hoffman (1880–1966)
Beans of colored jelly,
Flavored mint, chocolate and raspberry,
Kneaded, approximate ecstasy…
Children know this
But Hans proves with imagery.
– Bolbul
The Brown Crock, 1925
Samuel John Peploe (1871–1935)
A stoneware crock and table laid objects,
Presented such lit or shaded facets,
That if artfully orchestrated,
Would leave the heart tasting peaches.
– Bolbul
Still Life, 1928
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)
Somedays time should sit
At al fresco tables and chill.
Nibble at peaches, cheeses, wine sip…
So immortalize ‘Life Still’.
– Bolbul
Jeanne with Flowers, 1907
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)
Floral arches and vaults
Raoul raised for Jeanne,
So plebian in demenour,
He thought her a queen.
– Bolbul
Still Life and Rosechatel 1924
Francis Cadell (1883–1937)
Distilled with skills sublime,
Color is a connoisseur’s wine…
Watch this bottle
And its reflections of mind.
– Bolbul
Young Woman Reading an Art Book, 1919
Einar Jolin (1890-1976)
Slender stem, toward art bent,
Her mind’s a bud… opened by paint.
– Bolbul
Returning from the market, 1870
Honore Daumier (1808-1879)
Buying and selling make certain,
We remain beasts of burden.
– Bolbul
The Chess Players, c. 1863–67
Honore Daumier (1808-1879)
Once more let it be known,
Among friends, I am Napoleon.
– Bolbul
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