September ~

Posted by Maverick ~ on September 25, 2017
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September
 Hartley Coleridge

The dark green Summer, with its massive hues,
  Fades into Autumn's tincture manifold.
  A gorgeous garniture of fire and gold
  The high slope of the ferny hill indues.
  The mists of morn in slumbering layers diffuse
  O'er glimmering rock, smooth lake, and spiked array
  Of hedge-row thorns, a unity of grey.
  All things appear their tangible form to lose
  In ghostly vastness. But anon the gloom
  Melts, as the Sun puts off his muddy veil;
  And now the birds their twittering songs resume,
  All Summer silent in the leafy dale.
  In Spring they piped of love on every tree,
  But now they sing the song of memory.

Persephone

Posted by Maverick ~ on September 23, 2017
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Persephone

Thomas Hart Benton‘s Persephone recasts a Greek myth in a contemporary, rural guise. Beautiful Persephone was abducted by Hades, who imprisoned her in the underworld. Her father Zeus negotiated her release for all but four months of every year. During this period her mother, the harvest goddess Demeter, denied the growth of all flora, thus creating winter.

Benton’s Persephone appears as a sunbathing farm girl. Hades is shown as a lustful, aging farmer with a rickety cart for his chariot. His facial features appear similar to Benton’s own, although he used a local model. The creek-side setting suggests an arcadian landscape as well as a likely venue for skinny-dipping. Shamelessly naked, Persephone evokes Old Master female nudes in addition to modern pin-ups.

Since last he saw you ~

Posted by Maverick ~ on September 22, 2017
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“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.”   ― Stephen King, ‘Salem’s Lot

Autumnal Equinox

Dragon-Form Roof Tile ~

Posted by Maverick ~ on September 19, 2017
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“The dragon-form roof tile is comprised of four sections with high relief details. On either side of the tile there is a larger, green glazed dragon; a smaller, amber dragon; curly clouds filling up the space between the dragons; and a miniature figure under the head of the amber dragon. The larger dragon is biting the roof ridge with wide-open jaws and its winding tail turns upward. The smaller dragon writhes amidst clouds in the opposite direction of the larger one. The intertwined dragons form a shape similar to a half moon.

Comprised of four sections well modeled in high, crisp relief as two ferocious dragons writhing admist clouds, the larger green-glazed dragon descending with jaws wide open as the smaller amber-glazed dragon with supple, slithering body ascends as it reachs for the flaming pearl tightly grasped in the other’s extended rear claw, with the small figure of a bearded immortal standing admist the clouds just below the amber dragon’s head, the reverse modeled with the body of the green dragon only, all in green, amber, cream and black.” — Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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The Prophet

Posted by Maverick ~ on September 18, 2017
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The Prophet
(Mixed media on aluminum)
Frank Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter and printmaker,
noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.

My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there. It really is an object. Any painting is an object and anyone who gets involved enough in this finally has to face up to the objectness of whatever it is that he’s doing. He is making a thing.. ..all I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion.. .What you see is what you see.  — Frank Stella

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Interior with a Book

Posted by Maverick ~ on September 16, 2017
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Interior with a Book, 1959
Richard Diebenkorn

“Richard Diebenkorn worked in two styles-gestural realism, as in Interior with a Book, and complete abstraction, as in the Ocean Park Series.

In Interior with a Book, Diebenkorn integrates flat areas of color with more realistic passages suggesting three-dimensional space. The right two-thirds of the canvas present a landscape, sky and interior space in terms of an abstract pattern of horizontal bands of color. Perspective, or the illusion of receding space, is achieved through the intersection of these horizontals with the diagonal lines of the window frame. The careful placement of a chair, book and trees enhances this illusion of depth.

The empty chair and open book suggest the absence or eventual presence of a solitary figure, creating a mood of quiet anticipation.”