Cakes, 1970s
Wayne Thiebaud (1920-)
My palate is a space violet,
Dabbed by cream layered,
From an artist’s palette…
On days of love shared.
– Bolbul
Coffee, 1959
Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993)
The sky is one with trees,
Trees with the sand and sea…
And the woman with her coffee.
– Bolbul
Young Girl in a Green Dress, 1921
Henti Matisse (1869-1954) in
Warmed by the light of art… on the inside,
She became one with the full vase
And the vermillion carpet by the window’s side.
– Bolbul
Savarin, Lithograph, circa 1977
Jasper Johns (1930-)
One evening a coffee can
Invited paintbrushes to plan
Intermeshed, ideas-popping patterns…
To spur an expressionist man.
– Bolbul
Sandy Cliff, 2013, 2029-19
Wayne Thiebaud (1920-)
Two cliffs, their love deep as the Pacific,
Await the evening
With lips burning for a kiss.
– Bolbul
Tracks of a Wagon, 1918
Joan Miro (1893-1983)
Joan’s wagon was wondrous, here’s why…
It left tread marks not just earthy
But also way up in the sky!
– Bolbul
Red Fisherman, 1950
Milton Avery (1885-1965)
‘He is good!’, said the seagulls.
‘We were hungry
But soon shall be full.’
– Bolbul
L’Egyptienne, 1911
Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968)
Beauty has a big home…
In figures Indian, Egyptian
Or those colored by Van Dongen!
– Bolbul
Three Women in a Wood, 1920
Otto Muller (1874-1930)
Three dames talk stuff not goody goody,
Confident in the privacy
Of their leafy canopy.
– Bolbul
Sleeping Woman, 1961
Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993)
Folded elbows, waist and knees,
Mirror the unfolding of sleep…
– Bolbul
Cake Rows, 1962
Wayne Thiebaud (1920-)
Let there be a plated confection
For every moment of dejection
Or of symphonic celebration…
Ordered from Wayne’s selection!
– Bolbul
Women with Dog, 1912
Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947)
The doggie in languid, wakeful sleep,
As Andree and friend extend
The assurance of loving upkeep.
– Bolbul
Mother and Child, 1892-93
Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947)
How a child paints his face with food…
If the paper, likewise Pierre could,
The outcome would be awfully good.
– Bolbul
Goldfish, 1912
Henti Matisse (1869-1954)
Optimism and Matisse’s benefaction,
Doubled by the magic of refraction.
– Bolbul
Still Life with Cat, 1910
Auguste Macke (1887-1914)
Some mornings are a softly purring cat,
Especially when the night before
Has played jazz…
Wearing funky hats!
– Bolbul
Haymaking in Brittany, 1889
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Not gold, well know they…
Yet hay makes their day!
– Bolbul
Landscape near Chatou, 1904
Andre Derain (1880-1954)
With dancing glints say cottages quaint,
The choreographer’s mind is a ballroom for paint.
– Bolbul
Reclining Nude, 1921
Imre Szobotka (1890-1961)
For once, see a man through the prism
Of assured, multi-colored feminism!
– Bolbul
Cataluña, etapa de formación (1885-1894)
Hermenegildo Camarasa (1871-1959)
The ocean is a treasure box rich…
Its rocks and algae corraline tantalizing reach,
But most prized are the
Platinum and gold scaled fish…
– Bolbul
Going up Garrowby Hill, c2000
David Hockney (1937-)
Shouldn’t one genuflect on knees
Before the colors growing soil of Garrowby?!
– Bolbul
Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2, 1912
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
Down the staircase of time
She came… in a clattering of lines.
– Bolbul
Shep, D-Day, 1944
Victor A. Lundy (1923-)
From the exhausting dreams
Of nations and nationalism,
A soldier is safe in his winks.
– Bolbul
January, Iowa, 1940
Grant Wood (1891-1942)
Cold is a rabbit covering with snow…
Of dormant corn shocks, hills low.
– Bolbul
The Moat, Grange Farm, Kimble, 1922
John Nash ((1893-1977)
Gather the wise around moats…
Reflecting upon their existence,
Forgetting about shadows.
– Bolbul
Landscape with white wall, 1910
Gabriele Münter (1877-1962)
She jumps a bland wall realistic
To climb lapis lazuli hills expressionistic…
– Bolbul
Garden at Murnau, ca. 1910
A beckoning house,
Memories and wishes doused,
May all viewers have…
As she did at Murnau.
– Bolbul
Wayne Thiebaud, Lake Mountain, 2019, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches.
A mountain made of blue lake,
Once seen, all thirst is slaked.
– Bolbul
Captive Dove, Kaïro, 1864
John Frederick Lewis (1804-76)
They knew of a free sky above,
In their souls, both the mistress and the dove…
– Bolbul
Over the Bridge, 1957
Frank Hinder (1906-92)
The viewer enjoys sumptuous fare,
Doesn’t remotely care
About the conflation of painting and architecture.
– Bolbul
In the Bezestein, El Khan Khalil, Cairo, 1860
John Frederick Lewis (1804-76)
Bearing grand, a dandy old man
Displays cultural flowers and colors
In Cairo’s El Khalil Khan.
– Bolbul
Blackfriars Bridge, London, 1906
Andre Derain
Andre brings to England, colors Mediterranean…
Pink piers, orange shadows broken
And sky blues – cobalt to ultramarine.
– Bolbul
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