Proust talks to us and compared
the Veronese Crucifixion
to a departing train.
He said Albertine’s gown
was Tiepolo pink beside
The Zephyr and Flora?
Harbor at Carquethuit,
for all the vivid detail
but only in his imagination.
Degas, Renoir, Vuillard.
But a break in the telephone line,
Proust's remains just out of touch.
Gentile Bellini; Odette de Crécy
strikes Swann by her resemblance
to a figure in a Botticelli fresco.
Mme. Blattin a Proustian call
"exactly the portrait
of Savonarola by Fra Bartolomeo.
Proust's poem to Van Dyck
All the beautiful
beings who are soon going to die.
Chardin. Beauty where I never expected
to find it. The Humble, the simple.
Viewed and viewed again.
Dutch paintings,
genre paintings of memory.
Bathed in a soft light of beauty.
Late sky with a white moon, like an actress
who goes in ordinary clothes to sit out front
and to watch the company for moments.
Speaks to a Saintine novel, a Gleyre landscape.
Characters cut sharply against the sky,
a silver sickle, some work as unsophisticated.
I'll stop, with Ruskin. For Proust, Ruskin's Gothic
resembles the novel and he was empowered
to atomize, sift and love.
Walking, reading and talking.
Better to have seen and recall than to see
and not remember.
https://vimeo.com/15163812
https://publicdomainreview.org/collecti ... wanns-way/
Proust In Art
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BobBradshaw
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Re: Proust In Art
This is lovely, Bernie....and experimental, willing to take risks...and pulling them off. I watched the vimeo link....it's interesting how you merge parts of the presentation with your own lines....I especially liked these lines:
Degas, Renoir, Vuillard.
But a break in the telephone line,
Proust's remains just out of touch.
These 3 lines are merged lines, from the Proust/art presentation and your inventive imagination
I'll stop, with Ruskin. For Proust, Ruskin's Gothic
resembles the novel and he was empowered
to atomize, sift and love.
The presenter talks about Ruskin's influence, particulariy regarding Gothic architecture and how it resembles the novel, but you add "he was empowered to atomize, sift and love..."
The narrator in the Proust lecture talks about how Proust uses writing to paint...you, obviously do here, too...and your poems usually are very visual.
It's as if you're mimicking the presentation, showing slides of art to make your points...as homage to the presentation itself but also as murals in a poem, as part of a tour, the poet as curator ...
wonderful poem
Degas, Renoir, Vuillard.
But a break in the telephone line,
Proust's remains just out of touch.
These 3 lines are merged lines, from the Proust/art presentation and your inventive imagination
I'll stop, with Ruskin. For Proust, Ruskin's Gothic
resembles the novel and he was empowered
to atomize, sift and love.
The presenter talks about Ruskin's influence, particulariy regarding Gothic architecture and how it resembles the novel, but you add "he was empowered to atomize, sift and love..."
The narrator in the Proust lecture talks about how Proust uses writing to paint...you, obviously do here, too...and your poems usually are very visual.
It's as if you're mimicking the presentation, showing slides of art to make your points...as homage to the presentation itself but also as murals in a poem, as part of a tour, the poet as curator ...
wonderful poem