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Click hereKadinsky said abstract is concrete.
Pollack captured Shakespeare
when he showed us the figure
submerged five fanthoms deep
as beneath man's physical form
our phantasms trapped inside
explore the many dimensions
within us all...and Frank drank.
The paint became important
like the blood encased within
as much as the vein itself.
To augur your own arteries
suddenly became divine.
The art of self-discovery
was about the pleasure principle
because to please yourself
as an artist requires you
to process your feelings
into the product and become
one with the work...
or something like that.
Gorky called it the stuff of thought
Newman the metaphysical problem
of the part seeking the whole and
others an instinctive response
to the crisis of modern man.
Jackson knew it had a life all its own
a life full of spit and ash
of littered whiskey-stained breathings
and mad ranting raves as the painter
crawled into the canvas
to explore the nightmarish globbings
and chase the demon dreams
across the purity of the universe
that is within us all.
I hate that I missed this when it was posted.
You have taken me on a journey that I can only liken to grabbing onto a comet's tail and holding on for dear life and all the while, orgasmically enjoying the ride.
I love your descriptions and the way you write in general. You take my breath away :)
enjoyed this read very much!!
xoxo
NJ
Excellent piece of writing Steve (though the spacing is odd, but I'm guessing that was an accident). So glad to see your poetry and know you're still kickin. :)
You gave me a glimpse of the 4th dimension in this one. Art is timeless in as much as the paint makes the artist immortal. This is excellent descriptive writing. I could see the masterpieces even as you talked about the artists. Thanks for the poem.