Poems of my own
Cut-up exercises:
Literary Criticism
Analysis, interpretation,
Comparison or simple opinion?
Theme, style, insights
Evidence highlights!
Purpose to inform,
To persuade, to entertain,
Subjective evaluation chain!
Aesthetics
Function of beauty,
Art and society,
Truth-content in the art object,
Adorno’s Wahrheitsgehalt advent,
Multiple dialectical interaction,
semblance, expression, and mimesis.
Youth expression
Unconscious search for an identity,
construct of youth,
maelstrom of pubescence,
discover a role in society.
Risks and trends in anxiety,
perception of otherness,
the utter emptiness,
stress, dropout, depression,
self-inflicted obsession,
misunderstandings,
set the path for a crash landing.
Acrostic exercises:
Murmur
M urmuring sweet nothings,
U nusual expressions,
R emembering quiet sunsets,
M editating on memories,
U seless, pointless
R ecollections.
Neruda
N obel prize awarded,
E legant, subtle poems,
R adical beliefs, passionate love,
U nity of style and purpose,
D espair song,
A tender sensuous poetry.
Exercise on the image proposed:
Reflections
Reflections of sky on water,
Surreal image
Composed in a virtual world.
A solitary sailship
Lost in the infinity of times.
Starry night,
Twilight of existence.
and an exercise on my own surreal images:
Broccoli
Red dark weary landscape,
Sacred Uluru
Emerging from the desert.
Strange broccoli green tree,
Contrasting massively.
Surrealism made easy
With ingenious escapism.
Tiger
Tiger, tiger
On the sky, floating rock
Overfly.
Tiger, tiger
‘in the forest of the night’
William Blake reminds
His tiger ‘burning bright’.
Cut-up exercise on a Kandinsky's art review - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/jun/24/art.art
Kandinsky
Blurring edges of visual and music,
eyes for astronomy, ears for harmony,
architecture as ‘frozen music’.
Dreams and symbols,
synthetic experience, where
words, images and sounds melt,
kind of spiritual ecstasy.
Suggestive painting titles,
Compositions,
Improvisations,
Impressions,
a cycle of symphonies, concertos.
Woodcuts as ‘poems without words’.
On the Spiritual Art,
emotional qualities on each shade,
unifying colour theory,
imaginative leap into abstraction.
Hearing of colours, soul vibrating,
colours produce visual chords,
sensual connections.
Suffering pleasure of inspiration.
Joana Vasconcelos - http://www.joanavasconcelos.com/obras_en.aspx
Joana
Conceptual expressionist artist,
extravagant, ironic installations,
lions in lace napkins,
baroque kitsch,
a suffragette assemblage.
Preconceptions of femininity,
the Bride, outcast in Versailles,
white, pure tampons creative chandelier .
Pop art, massive scale,
art for the masses,
mimic routine numbness.
Marylin shoes, stainless-steel saucepans.
Suspended Valkyrie,
knitted biomorphic goddess.
Lucien Freud was one of Paula Rego's tutors and I see some traces of influence in her portraits of women.
This is a cut-up exercise from a review in Guardian
Paula Rego
A show of sex, anger and pain,
filled with coded messages
and degrees of figuration.
Children’s stories with adult themes,
jealousies and affairs,
adulteries and betrayals,
longings and losses,
ambivalences.
Painting a kind of narrative,
loose pictorial style,
bordering caricature.
Collapsed storyboards,
a bestiary of figures,
personages of medieval manuscripts,
feminist macabre variations,
painted dramas.
She is in all her characters,
male as well as female,
masked and unmasked.
In 2009 a museum called «House of Stories» was built and dedicated to Paula Rego, in Cascais (30km from Lisbon).
A virtual tour to the museum
A clip of an interview
Bordalo II is an urban artist, who produces amazing sculptures/assemblages from trash - https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/09/bordalo-ii-trash-sculptures/
A short video with Bordalo II (the second because his gransdfather was also a painter) - https://youtu.be/5eTSGbxAIQ4
Cut-up exercise:
Bordalo II
Urban creative junk assemblage,
animal native sculptures from
car bumpers, tires, door panels,
mountains of plastic trash,
stacked and bolted
on city walls and buildings.
Amazing art, colourful spray painted.
Nature itself, out of materials
causing creatures destruction.
Trash, waste and pollution,
Art revolution.
