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Frida Returns
It's back, although its authenticity is still unverified. Even if Frida Kahlo didn't say this, it would be nice to think that she did.Thanks to Miss Renee just in from L.A. for the image and to T.C....
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Feuillevert: Green Leaves And The Dream Of A Common Language
“I was beginning to speak of the famous poets I knew when Garfield stopped me with ‘Just a minute!’ He ran down into the grassy space, first to one fence and then to the other at the sides, and waved...
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Cote d'Azure: This Too Was The Summer Of 1914
In the summer of 1914 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) was eighty-one years old. In his long career as an engineer and architect he had experienced monumental successes (the Garabit Viaduct in the...
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Sir Philip Sidney: A Sonnet
Sonnet XXXI"With how sad steps, O Moone, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wanne a face! What, may it be that even in heavenly placeThat busy archer his sharpe arrowes tries?Sure, if...
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Arthur Bowen Davies: An Artist From Utica
"Modern art owes more to him than anyone else." - Walter Pach, January 14, 1958, MWP Institute Archives.Idealized nudes at play in antique landscapes. That is all most museum-goers know of Arthur...
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Tremble
“Why is youth so terribly unmerciful? And who has given it permission to be that way?” - Ingmar BergmanImage: Emile Galle - Tremble - no date given, Musee d'Orsay, Paris
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Emily Dickinson: A Private Spriit
"The difference between DespairAnd Fear – is like the One Between the instant of a Wreck – And when the Wreck has been – The Mind is smooth – no motion – Contented as the EyesUpon the Forehead...
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Mark Rothko & Gregory Orr: From Desolation To Joy
"To be alive. Not just The carcass, but the spark." - Gregory OrrWithout some knowledge of joy, there would be no poignancy to desolation. This is mirror to the philosophical point that without some...
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A Map Of The Affections
"..It's something that everybody needs.." - Lowman Pauling & Ralph Bass.If only there were a reliable map to affairs of the heart, its cartographer would become wealthy and rightly so. The road to...
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Love In The Desert
"In the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing.” “It is God without mankind.” - excerpts from A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac, 1830, translated from the French by Ernest...
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Ronsard: A Romance Of The Rose
“In the midst of war, in a faithless age,Amid a thousand lawsuits, is it not the height of madnessTo write about love?” – Pierre de Ronsard No, a thousand times. The greatest French poet of the...
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Never Lonelier: Gottfried Benn
"Never lonelier than in August:Hour of plenitude – the countrysideWaving with red and golden tassels,But where is your pleasure garden?Soft skies and sparkling lakes,The healthy sheen of fields,But...
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Renoir And The Beauty Of The Ordinary
I grew up with Renoir's On the Terrace. A framed print was always in its place by my mother's dressing table. That it was not the original did nothing to keep me from falling in love with it. In my...
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The Popular Poplar
Were there poplar trees in the mythical world of the Greek god Apollo? The terrain of Mt. Parnassus, Apollo's earthly home, is rugged, suggesting great age. But it suited the taste of the...
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Pierre Bonnard: Painter Of The Future
“But the painter of the future will be a colorist such as has never yet existed.” - Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo in a letter dated 5 May 1888.“Society was ready to welcome Cubism and Surrealism...
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The Exquisite Awkwardness Of Georges Lacombe
Finistere – finis terre – land's end – the end of Europe.A peninsula inhabited by humans for 2.5 million years, Brittany is also inhabited by all manner of mythical characters, pixies, mermaids,...
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My Vegetable Love: Rufino Tamayo
“I woke from a dream that all my friends were scallionsI heard bravos from the lumps of beef I had left behindFrom the ground round porterhouse and tartarAs they cleaved like peas and sent out...
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Niki de Saint Phalle: The Revolutionary Colors Of Joy
"‘On a psychological level I have all that it takes to be a terrorist, but instead I decided to use guns for good, for art. " - Nike de Saint Phalle (1930-2002)Larger-than-life papier mâché sculptures,...
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An Autumn Anachronism
“My fear is that in the depth of night,The flowers will fall asleep and depart. So I light the tall candles,To illuminate their beauty..” - Su Shi Su Shi (1037-1101) was a Chinese writer of the Song...
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Northern Lights In Autumn
I have a special fondness for the photography of John Pfahl because my path has accidentally followed his around the northeast. Pfahl grew up in northeastern New Jersey: he attended Syracuse...
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