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- Saul Leiter
I'd seen some of Leiter's stuff before, but thank you to Kevin for mentioning him the other day and intriguing me enough to look again.
The Goya painting I've been thinking about is this one, 'The Third of May':
(I've dug up another photo of it, as Joni feels the shirt in the first looks a bit over-exposed.)
(I've dug up another photo of it, as Joni feels the shirt in the first looks a bit over-exposed.)
Breughel's Icarus. The inspiration for a particularly fine meditation on the relationship between art, daily life and and human tragedy, by WH Auden. I think I've posted this before, but it bears repeating.
Musee des Beaux Arts
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
"Some years earlier, at another breakfast, I asked Garry to tell me about Norman Mailer's fiftieth birthday party, an event he had attended the night before. He looked up from his plate, swallowed his food, and with a mischievous grin, he said: thirty-five rolls. End of story"
--Lee Friedlander speaking of a conversation with Garry Winogrand in Arrivals & Departures.
from erotic falconry
thanks the foamy green
this one looks a lot less like porn. if this is still a problem then well i don't know what to tell you. lighten up.. comes to mind.*
*not directed at you Mark.. just a general statement.
