NOTES FOR THE ANATOMY OF MODERN ART




              Van Gogh’s ear + sunflowers (lot 43 + lots 44)
                       
                                          the mo of Salvador Dali or Mona Lisa
                                               
                                                                  a whole raft of Medusas

                         Francis Bacon’s raw hams; popes go ape as orang-outangs

            viz. spitting images of de Chirico’s dummies;  200 Andy’s ‘soup can do’ cans

                                         & assembly-line of  Marilyns  (acidic on acrylic?)

                                                                    David Hockney’s cheeks in cool L.A. chic

                        Duchamp’s urinary tract (in trad. of Pissarro?)

 Bridget Riley’s ops:  waves of intestines & colons  (semi-optic = semiotics?)

                           Henry Moore’s navel manoeuvres  (or caves of armpits?)

            an Eiffel of Delaunay // Voyeurisme:  lorgner (Fr), to make eyes at

                                                              feet of Klee

                 balls by (of?) Picasso – is this a cliché?  This is a cliché, a cliché, this is – Cut!

 balls by Braque

                                                    bulls cum bike saddles by Picasso  (Pablo = bull artist?)

                                            spermatozoa from Miro  (Cut that out!)
)
                        decoupages & gouaches of Matisse

Dali’s clocks runny as organic Gaudi  (Surrealism rampant on Ramblas!)

Monet’s haystacks, lilies, caths like molten ice cream (Rouen in ruins!)

                                           Munch’s Madonnas/Liliths, sickrooms – i scream

Mont Ste Victoire:  a pair of Cezannes: apples or peaches?                     Monet’s monnaie
                                                                                                                                                            bathers (viz Seurrat, Picasso et al), bouteilles de vin (viz almost anyone)
           
masks:  African bush ranging to Ned Kelly’s armour – Nolanscape + Pollock

           Meret Oppenheimer’s Dinner in Fur  (art as meal ticket)

Cypresses – mere trees pre-Vincent

  Toulouse Lautrec’s follies @ Moulin Rouge:  clay pipe
                                                             N.B. absinthe makes the heart grow fonder
                        Magritte’s fey pipe
is not a pipe but a pigment of the imagination
                                                                                       N.B. trompe
                                                                                       l’oeil =
                                                                                       EYE – CON
                                                                                                            
                                                     Michael Small

pub. Cordite 23, December, 2005, AUSTRALIA

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

MEDLARS - SHE'S APPLES!

            In the rustic green garden of Catherine of Yarragon             Bobbled hundreds of frightful skulls of medlars woe-begone             Apples blackened with ague or rotting with plague on             To the wincing jaundiced quince, mug-ugly first cousin Yea, hundreds of death-masks dropping with aplomb             Like conkers, round brown faces, some bruised mauve to plum             Hollowed–out black eyes squinched neath nasal bar’s helm             Curving sepals summon knights from a distant Norman realm Mid a circuit of arthritic sticks, twiglets, thin limbs twisting r...
Read more

MORNING OVER FORT MADHOGARH

Clack, clack, clack breaks her village like beescomb, awakes the sun god, Surya.   Still treadling dark, young Hindu girl.   Dare she dream the kingfisher weave, silky azul?   Even the banyan tree stretches legs for parabolas of parakeets where peacocks mewl. And in dung-fed fields, orange saris gild mustard seeds.   After school, she buckles yet to her station.   Fluent in shuttle solely, tread imperceptible, deft.   Among stoops of elders rapt in village talk, card players hawking gustily, her father warps at gouging a wedge of droughty mud to fathom lake’s bed or burning rubbish and dead dog.   Pig’s work, eh?   Under kite’s eye, threading the brokered marriage day, his larki clacks blind duty.                                  ...
Read more

ADOLESCENT DESKAPE

crustating in class      vassal or vessel    dripfed by vultures war vets in gowns       boxed by backrest & knobbled desklid          iron stanchions stirruping lustings of legs             often id pore over that oaken scrawled slab                in veins of stephens blue black & ruby red                   Jackson Pollock   rorshached   bridget riley                      so pricked by the press of worsted weave                     ...
Read more