When I’m Alone
Posted: July 18, 2014 Filed under: Art, Poetry, Writing | Tags: age, alone, change, loneliness, Siegfried Sassoon, untitled, youth Leave a commentBy Siegfried Sassoon
When I’m alone’ – the words tripped off his tongue
As though to be alone were nothing strange.
‘When I was young,’ he said; ‘when I was young . . .’
I thought of age, and loneliness, and change.
I thought how strange we grow when we’re alone,
And how unlike the selves that meet, and talk,
And blow the candles out, and say good-night.
Alone . . . The word is life endured and known.
It is the stillness where our spirits walk
And all but inmost faith is overthrown.
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Imi Knoebel
Posted: May 25, 2014 Filed under: Art, Painting/Drawing | Tags: 1977, 70s, abstract, colours, German, Imi Knoebel, minimalist, shapes, untitled Leave a comment
Untitled, Imi Knoebel. 1977
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Leon Levinstein
Posted: December 10, 2013 Filed under: Art, Photography | Tags: 1950, 50s, embrace, eyes, hold, hug, Leon Levinstein, look, untitled, woman Leave a comment
Leon Levinstein
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Two Hands and Garden Path
Posted: November 26, 2013 Filed under: Art, Photography | Tags: 1970, 70s, garden, hands, path, photogram, photographer, Sue Ford, untitled Leave a comment
No Title (Photogram of Two Hands and Garden Path). Sue Ford. 1970.
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Still Lives
Posted: November 3, 2013 Filed under: Art, Photography | Tags: 80s, artificial, bottles, ceramics, composition, fruit, Jan Groover, light, oranges, pears, photography, pots, still life, untitled Leave a comment
Untitled. Jan Groover. 1988.
Everything in this photograph is utterly artificial, beginning with the painted backdrop. Its mottled forms create an impression of light, which complicates the shaft of genuine light that Groover has introduced from above on the right side of the composition. These effects enliven the somber beauty of the picture and participate in a visual balancing act that also includes the table and all the objects on and around it, which the artist has painted before arranging them. The imprudent red at the lower left adds to the impression of a voluptuous whole.
Since 1978, the still-life genre has been the focus of Groover’s photography, the arena in which she has tested her conviction that “formalism is everything.” That declaration may be understood to mean that the artist’s pictorial decisions-what color meets with what color, how shapes are seen in relationship to each other and to the space they occupy, the scale of forms within the picture-are enough to create a world of meaning. Pursuing this conviction in the closed environment of the studio, Groover has, in fact, created a seemingly infinite variety of visual experience, as rich and surprising as life outside.
(Text from MoMA)
Untitled. Jan Groover. 1983.
Untitled. Jan Groover. 1987.
Untitled. Jan Groover. 1988.
Untitled. Jan Groover. 1987.
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Embrace
Posted: November 2, 2013 Filed under: Art, Photography | Tags: 1988, black and white, couple, hug, kiss, kissing, Leon Levinstein, love, New York, steps, street scene, untitled Leave a comment
Street Scene- Couple Kissing on Building Steps, New York City. Leon Levinstein. 1988.
