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"expressionism" poems
From Alan Lomax to the commercial art and now the money machine. At the turn of the century; when sound recording 1st became available to the masses, recording a song was an opportunity for folk to reach out; and tell the world something up front and personal. It meant that people were able to put themselves on “The record” A way of leaving a permanent audio statement, an epitaph, an audio sound bite immortalising ~ life, mood, emotion captured and bottled for all eternity. (A medium that conveyed messages from artists and storytellers of all kinds) A recording was also a great addition to "The family album" something more tangible, a window to a real person, with a real life, a message and a point of view; a legacy, a blast from the past. Few people expected sound prints to be re-designed, homogenised, formulated, copied, repackaged and that art and the message would be played over and over again by new artists in the form of "cover music" or that the style of the messages would become secularized, seperated into distinctive groups, or constrained by an elite clique or commercial genre. Labelling and streamlining art & music mostly benefits the commercial art & music industry; and no longer the artists and creators. I've no problem with good business, or the multi-billion pound industrys that have gained commercial success. However the process of mass homogenisation, product synthesis, marketing, streamlining and then packaging fashion, sound and synthetic culture to sell a product, leaves very little room for creative people to just be creative. A medium originally open to many for self expression, a historical record, an archive, a voice, a personal message; Is now just a vehicle for advertising and perpetuating a genre of nonsense, so much so that there is now more white noise immortalised than messages. To re-cap ~ I Think that creativity and expressionism; like story telling conveys moods and messages from the present and past! Artists and musicians should have the opportunity to create and produce more information than they copy; thus creating a richer more colourful tapestry, whilst not devaluing the message of their predecessors! Purcy Flaherty.
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Jan 9, 2018
Jan 9, 2018 at 10:38 AM UTC
The media machine and its lack of authenticity
From Alan Lomax to the commercial art and now the money machine. At the turn of the century; when sound recording 1st became available to the masses, recording a song was an opportunity for folk to reach out; and tell the world something up front and personal. It meant that people were able to put themselves on “The record” A way of leaving a permanent audio statement, an epitaph, an audio sound bite immortalising ~ life, mood, emotion captured and bottled for all eternity. (A medium that conveyed messages from artists and storytellers of all kinds) A recording was also a great addition to "The family album" something more tangible, a window to a real person, with a real life, a message and a point of view; a legacy, a blast from the past. Few people expected sound prints to be re-designed, homogenised, formulated, copied, repackaged and that art and the message would be played over and over again by new artists in the form of "cover music" or that the style of the messages would become secularized, seperated into distinctive groups, or constrained by an elite clique or commercial genre. Labelling and streamlining art & music mostly benefits the commercial art & music industry; and no longer the artists and creators. I've no problem with good business, or the multi-billion pound industrys that have gained commercial success. However the process of mass homogenisation, product synthesis, marketing, streamlining and then packaging fashion, sound and synthetic culture to sell a product, leaves very little room for creative people to just be creative. A medium originally open to many for self expression, a historical record, an archive, a voice, a personal message; Is now just a vehicle for advertising and perpetuating a genre of nonsense, so much so that there is now more white noise immortalised than messages. To re-cap ~ I Think that creativity and expressionism; like story telling conveys moods and messages from the present and past! Artists and musicians should have the opportunity to create and produce more information than they copy; thus creating a richer more colourful tapestry, whilst not devaluing the message of their predecessors! Purcy Flaherty.
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"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way." -Vincent van Gogh in a letter to his younger brother Theo van Gogh in July of 1880" I've taken the straight razor to my ear like a third-rate van Gogh. Impressionism bleeding into Expressionism. Mania trickling into an unmitigated need to find the beauty and grace he only found with a paintbrush. Blood clinging to the horse hair bristles like the blood splattered in the margins of every page I've ever filled. Each line and brush stroke choking out a futile cry for help as the wheat fields burn and the sunflowers wither.
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Sep 23, 2012
Sep 23, 2012 at 6:21 AM UTC
For Vincent, my Kindred Soul.
When the streets are made for nothing but thinking     It's the weight of the water that's caused our sinking It's a loss of feeling that's made me lighter It's everything around                               That makes me neutrally bound            The only writers block is the writer It's the kind of thing that makes a man with a pencil and paper a fighter Like the paper's jumping up at you like a, like a alligator                                            But it's hard to chalk down all the mistakes, cause when you're trying so hard you're just being fake You just gotta learn to let it, let it all flow Show your all and let em all know Just how you're feeling that blow, even if it means one or two bad lines, that's how you feel though Cause life ain't a poetry book It's all the points in between the pages that we missed It's all the things that make us factories of emotions, A crook with feelings creeping through the motions Turning pages, trying to **** it all up like the books eroding Don't you talk to me about feeling Naw you ain't know what you be dealing, everyone's got there own **** you can't tell me mines to be concealing See, I'm a material void of expressionism Cause I told everyone what I feel, not for the sake of impressionism They chose to see inside and learn a lesson without all the criticism Everything I've learned is turning me into a crustaceans fossil Hard to the shell but brittle to the touch, and I preach my **** like a god **** apostle You make me feel from the inside and I'll be your crutch, but you're gonna need more than a god **** rock hammer to open me up My words I mend to make up for what I conceal         But as I sit here thinking about how I feel It's gonna take more than this to make me heal Now let me dilute as I talk to the god inside my head and make a deal, something to end the pain and suffering I have concealed at the expense of everything real
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May 16, 2014
May 16, 2014 at 9:48 PM UTC
Block talk.
When the streets are made for nothing but thinking     It's the weight of the water that's caused our sinking It's a loss of feeling that's made me lighter It's everything around                               That makes me neutrally bound            The only writers block is the writer It's the kind of thing that makes a man with a pencil and paper a fighter Like the paper's jumping up at you like a, like a alligator                                            But it's hard to chalk down all the mistakes, cause when you're trying so hard you're just being fake You just gotta learn to let it, let it all flow Show your all and let em all know Just how you're feeling that blow, even if it means one or two bad lines, that's how you feel though Cause life ain't a poetry book It's all the points in between the pages that we missed It's all the things that make us factories of emotions, A crook with feelings creeping through the motions Turning pages, trying to **** it all up like the books eroding Don't you talk to me about feeling Naw you ain't know what you be dealing, everyone's got there own **** you can't tell me mines to be concealing See, I'm a material void of expressionism Cause I told everyone what I feel, not for the sake of impressionism They chose to see inside and learn a lesson without all the criticism Everything I've learned is turning me into a crustaceans fossil Hard to the shell but brittle to the touch, and I preach my **** like a god **** apostle You make me feel from the inside and I'll be your crutch, but you're gonna need more than a god **** rock hammer to open me up My words I mend to make up for what I conceal         But as I sit here thinking about how I feel It's gonna take more than this to make me heal Now let me dilute as I talk to the god inside my head and make a deal, something to end the pain and suffering I have concealed at the expense of everything real
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A person can speak a thousand words And still fall short of grand or ill works, Listen well if you will, these may in fact Be my last statements, Should I die tomorrow, Next week, Next month, Next year or in decades, I've written all you can withstand, Expressed my feelings too soon. Why should you need to care? I'll write letters of Apology, sent via telegram from the moon.
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Mar 29, 2015
Mar 29, 2015 at 10:22 PM UTC
Expressionism
This was written a few Septembers ago.  Walking on the streets of a now deserted beach island, only the leaves, in various states, to keep me company. September, walk with me, under bridges of wedding tree canopies, still green aplenty, tho subtle marked for change, making summer illusions, environmentally unsustainable. September, stroll on pathways of lesser, off the track, shaded lanes, the sun blocker trees wear new necklaces, brown and yellow diamonds, a coming attraction of their denouement, their denudement. The September trees are: Ever so slightly stooped, bent with weight of a surety, knowing with high certainty, their future, bleak, bowed and drooped, discouraged by the cold travails soon to arrive. Living in the recent past, I am dressed inappropriately, white tee and shorts, past pretender, still dressed in my Gap issue summer uniform, summer suspended animation. Island streets are de-humanized, gone home are the children, newly fallen leaves have, their place, taken. The leaves are: magically organized along the sidelines of empty streets, quiet stadiums of would be kid's touch football fields.   browned, crisp and soulless, first greet this solitary stroller, like a cheering throng of ghosts, celebrating a sighting - man, as a seasonal fossil, one that still is living and worth reminding, yet human too shall pass when his fall arrives. the leave's cheers make over into jeers and mocking laughs: Oh humans, they say, your summer songs naive, mais tres charmant. On Crescent Beach, the driftwood sadly forlorn, looking more adrift than ever, for no one passes to express admiration at the past seasons Nouveau Expressionism, an objet d'art lonely, for the beach gallery shuttered,   raising questions existential. Is driftwood on the beach sans human admiration, art, truth or refuse? I am looking backwards as the Earth moves forward. My own axis, my eyes, conscientious objectors refuse to be pressed into service of the seasons. No, no, to involuntary servitude, to rotation and revolution. Nature's witnesses, trees and leaves write their own poem, of foolish men who: Bow and droop, discouraged by the travails soon to arrive, Delaying their own fall, finally shed summer delusions like leaves upon the ground, summer poetry silenced, summer suspended, no more.
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Dec 7, 2013
Dec 7, 2013 at 8:06 AM UTC
September Summer Suspended Animation
This was written a few Septembers ago.  Walking on the streets of a now deserted beach island, only the leaves, in various states, to keep me company. September, walk with me, under bridges of wedding tree canopies, still green aplenty, tho subtle marked for change, making summer illusions, environmentally unsustainable. September, stroll on pathways of lesser, off the track, shaded lanes, the sun blocker trees wear new necklaces, brown and yellow diamonds, a coming attraction of their denouement, their denudement. The September trees are: Ever so slightly stooped, bent with weight of a surety, knowing with high certainty, their future, bleak, bowed and drooped, discouraged by the cold travails soon to arrive. Living in the recent past, I am dressed inappropriately, white tee and shorts, past pretender, still dressed in my Gap issue summer uniform, summer suspended animation. Island streets are de-humanized, gone home are the children, newly fallen leaves have, their place, taken. The leaves are: magically organized along the sidelines of empty streets, quiet stadiums of would be kid's touch football fields.   browned, crisp and soulless, first greet this solitary stroller, like a cheering throng of ghosts, celebrating a sighting - man, as a seasonal fossil, one that still is living and worth reminding, yet human too shall pass when his fall arrives. the leave's cheers make over into jeers and mocking laughs: Oh humans, they say, your summer songs naive, mais tres charmant. On Crescent Beach, the driftwood sadly forlorn, looking more adrift than ever, for no one passes to express admiration at the past seasons Nouveau Expressionism, an objet d'art lonely, for the beach gallery shuttered,   raising questions existential. Is driftwood on the beach sans human admiration, art, truth or refuse? I am looking backwards as the Earth moves forward. My own axis, my eyes, conscientious objectors refuse to be pressed into service of the seasons. No, no, to involuntary servitude, to rotation and revolution. Nature's witnesses, trees and leaves write their own poem, of foolish men who: Bow and droop, discouraged by the travails soon to arrive, Delaying their own fall, finally shed summer delusions like leaves upon the ground, summer poetry silenced, summer suspended, no more.
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Do we notice the finer things in life? The husband's and wives, children that's been conceived! Thou and they are all thou needeth when thy roof springs its leak! Sick Wearied Weak? Looking in all the wrong places? Itinerant in the stagnative imagination's For don't even the mammals haveth a place to stay? Like the son of man I haveth no chapel For this head to consecretly layeth!!! Dog nights seem more teething!!!! Vestige of all beauty You've left that still life post, Wherein thy mantra's I seeketh the most!!! The I loveth thou's And thou more.... Deluge of happiness Covereth me Bury me In atmospheric condition, Oh man didst thou not mention? The plaques to ***** it's protract sorrow!!!! Hath society made materialism And the dollar sign Their romantic gesture? A pity to God And me!!!! Mobs of fleas To calleth what they maketh MANIFESTED TESTIMONIES!!!! Wherein the frauds Fakes And phonies Art thy t.v magnate stars!!!!!
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Jun 13, 2015
Jun 13, 2015 at 6:17 PM UTC
Abstract expressionism
Do we notice the finer things in life? The husband's and wives, children that's been conceived! Thou and they are all thou needeth when thy roof springs its leak! Sick Wearied Weak? Looking in all the wrong places? Itinerant in the stagnative imagination's For don't even the mammals haveth a place to stay? Like the son of man I haveth no chapel For this head to consecretly layeth!!! Dog nights seem more teething!!!! Vestige of all beauty You've left that still life post, Wherein thy mantra's I seeketh the most!!! The I loveth thou's And thou more.... Deluge of happiness Covereth me Bury me In atmospheric condition, Oh man didst thou not mention? The plaques to ***** it's protract sorrow!!!! Hath society made materialism And the dollar sign Their romantic gesture? A pity to God And me!!!! Mobs of fleas To calleth what they maketh MANIFESTED TESTIMONIES!!!! Wherein the frauds Fakes And phonies Art thy t.v magnate stars!!!!! ©Brandon nagley ©Lonesome poet's poetry
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Jul 19, 2015
Jul 19, 2015 at 5:33 PM UTC
Abstract expressionism
this is very jumpy. i have been up for 24 hours. i don't know There are miles between us on the queen sized bed and all I know right now is words words words and nothing spilling from chapped lips. Passion and lust and I need you's coming out in the form of long kisses and hands-on-my-chest types of expressionism. This isn't the kind of dizzy your momma warned you about. Deep sea swimming inside your head and I'm trying to figure out a way to mean more than just someone you want in your bed. There's a tug at the bottom of my navel pulling me away from the edge, but I've already dived in. Sparks flew where your careful fingers met my hip bones, but lightning struck where your feelings for me lay and with a thunder clap they were gone as fast as rain slides down a window. The night I found out I was not important to you, regret was just a knot in my throat. But now, it is a hand choking my heart. How beautiful it would be for you to understand just how much I miss you. I only wanted someone to hold me like I was the source of every bit of his happiness. This wasn't love but it sure as hell felt like it, or more like it than my hand being guided to the zipper of your jeans. I can't think much else beyond 'I miss you' and it makes me want to crawl out of my skin. Why can't I write about anything or anyone but you? I still can't shake the notion that this is a feeling best tried to outrun. Our story is a half-packed suitcase. I will tell myself that this is going to be okay, that I am going to be okay. Even though I really think it won't be.
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Jun 26, 2013
Jun 26, 2013 at 10:09 AM UTC
four a.m. knows my secrets
this is very jumpy. i have been up for 24 hours. i don't know There are miles between us on the queen sized bed and all I know right now is words words words and nothing spilling from chapped lips. Passion and lust and I need you's coming out in the form of long kisses and hands-on-my-chest types of expressionism. This isn't the kind of dizzy your momma warned you about. Deep sea swimming inside your head and I'm trying to figure out a way to mean more than just someone you want in your bed. There's a tug at the bottom of my navel pulling me away from the edge, but I've already dived in. Sparks flew where your careful fingers met my hip bones, but lightning struck where your feelings for me lay and with a thunder clap they were gone as fast as rain slides down a window. The night I found out I was not important to you, regret was just a knot in my throat. But now, it is a hand choking my heart. How beautiful it would be for you to understand just how much I miss you. I only wanted someone to hold me like I was the source of every bit of his happiness. This wasn't love but it sure as hell felt like it, or more like it than my hand being guided to the zipper of your jeans. I can't think much else beyond 'I miss you' and it makes me want to crawl out of my skin. Why can't I write about anything or anyone but you? I still can't shake the notion that this is a feeling best tried to outrun. Our story is a half-packed suitcase. I will tell myself that this is going to be okay, that I am going to be okay. Even though I really think it won't be.
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Her presence is superfluous and your demeanor is vindictive, and you can’t hold her close enough to pass the hours with any more trivialities. Your allusions to Eos mean nothing to her comfortably deaf ears. Her smile drips with poisonous innocence and she’s reaching for you, and oh no, you’re doubled over again, and she’s rubbing your back, and you’re clutching at your insides and you just want to hurl them at the wall and redefine expressionism. Transgressions displayed in a mason jar atop the fireplace mantel, like the ashes of some dead relative who stopped mattering when the estate paid out and your dad blew it all at the casino again. With a knock and a bump, the skeletons come tumbling out of your closet; their bones crumble into dust on your carpet. You've lost track of how often this happens but you think the carpet looks better grey anyway, and she’s still looking up at you. Those eyes so much like a child, riddled with naivety and wonderment, like you’re the perfect picture of Eden. It’s 5am and you can’t see the room through the smoke, and she can’t hear the cries for help over her utopian illusion of This Is All We Need. You were never one for cathexis and you hope she can’t see the blood on the walls, or the blood(lust) on your hands. She has the uncanny ability to not know, despite your nuances. She’ll never read into your mind the way she reads the words you carve into the trees and the sand and the snow. Every articulation of Truth is just refracted through her pretty little head and sent spinning into the abyss. The sun is rising and you wish she’d leave, but your shift in weight and your sideways glance is subjective to her and she promises to stay. So instead you make bets with yourself over whether your body falling from a 30 story building, or the rising sun, will reach the horizon line first.
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Nov 27, 2013
Nov 27, 2013 at 6:12 PM UTC
Racing the Sun -- and Her
Her presence is superfluous and your demeanor is vindictive, and you can’t hold her close enough to pass the hours with any more trivialities. Your allusions to Eos mean nothing to her comfortably deaf ears. Her smile drips with poisonous innocence and she’s reaching for you, and oh no, you’re doubled over again, and she’s rubbing your back, and you’re clutching at your insides and you just want to hurl them at the wall and redefine expressionism. Transgressions displayed in a mason jar atop the fireplace mantel, like the ashes of some dead relative who stopped mattering when the estate paid out and your dad blew it all at the casino again. With a knock and a bump, the skeletons come tumbling out of your closet; their bones crumble into dust on your carpet. You've lost track of how often this happens but you think the carpet looks better grey anyway, and she’s still looking up at you. Those eyes so much like a child, riddled with naivety and wonderment, like you’re the perfect picture of Eden. It’s 5am and you can’t see the room through the smoke, and she can’t hear the cries for help over her utopian illusion of This Is All We Need. You were never one for cathexis and you hope she can’t see the blood on the walls, or the blood(lust) on your hands. She has the uncanny ability to not know, despite your nuances. She’ll never read into your mind the way she reads the words you carve into the trees and the sand and the snow. Every articulation of Truth is just refracted through her pretty little head and sent spinning into the abyss. The sun is rising and you wish she’d leave, but your shift in weight and your sideways glance is subjective to her and she promises to stay. So instead you make bets with yourself over whether your body falling from a 30 story building, or the rising sun, will reach the horizon line first.
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_New York                                after a trip to Mexico, & not finally explored_.    In 1991, shortly before he died,                                   Motherwell   remembered a "conspiracy of silence"                        regarding Paalen´s innovative role in the genesis of Abstract Expressionism. Upon return from Mexico,                       Motherwell               spent time developing his creative principle               based on automatism:    "what I realized was that Americans      potentially could paint like angels,              but that there      was no effective                        creative principle around,                      so that everybody      who liked modern art        was copying it;                            Gorky was copying Picasso;                          ******* was copying Picasso;                   De Kooni                                   ng was copying Picasso;               I mean,          I say this unqualifiedly,                   I was painting French intimate pictures or whatever:             All we needed was a creative principle,             I mean something that would mobilize this capacity to paint in a creative way,                   & that's what Europe                         had that we                         hadn't had;                                                 we had always followed in their wake                         &       I thought of all the possibilities             |               [                    ], [                 ]    of free association—because I also had    a psychoanalytic background & I understood the implications of—let's just say it might be the best chance                           to really make something entirely new which everybody agreed was the thing to do;" Thus, in the early 1940s,          Robert Motherwell played a significant role in laying the foundations for the new movement of Abstract Expressionism (or the New York School):                  "Matta wanted to start a revolution,  m [a movement w/in                    Surrealism].                   He asked me to find some other                   American artists that would help start   a new movement;                   it was then that Baziotes                                            & I went to see ******* & de Kooning       & Hofmann & Kamrowski &     Busa & several other people;      &                                           if we could come with something;      Peggy Guggenheim, who liked us said that she      would put on a show of this new business;      ... so I went around explaining         _the theory of automatism_      to everybody because _the only way_      that you could have a _move - - - ment_      was that it had some _common_                                                        _principle_. It sort of all began that way." In 1942 Motherwell began to exhibit        his work in New York and in 1944        he had his first one-man show at        Peggy Guggenheim’s _“Art of This Century”_ gallery;                   that same year,                   the MoMA                   was the first museum                   purchase one of his works;   From the mid-1940s,                   Motherwell [                   ], [                 ]. (            )                   became the leading spokesman                   for _avant-garde art in America_;                   his circle coming to include                                           William Baziotes,                   David Hare, Barnett Newman,                         & Mark Rothko, with whom he eventually             started the Subjects of the Artist School (1948–49). In 1949 Motherwell divorced             Maria Emilia Ferreira y Moyeros    and in 1950 he married Bettie                                                                   Little,                                                                   with whom he had two daughters
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Jul 28, 2018
Jul 28, 2018 at 11:18 PM UTC
Eli Simple as MOTHERWELL in "Automatic" [w/ Milky Toes as Peggy Guggenheim]:::NOW:::PLAYING:::w/ IT
_New York                                after a trip to Mexico, & not finally explored_.    In 1991, shortly before he died,                                   Motherwell   remembered a "conspiracy of silence"                        regarding Paalen´s innovative role in the genesis of Abstract Expressionism. Upon return from Mexico,                       Motherwell               spent time developing his creative principle               based on automatism:    "what I realized was that Americans      potentially could paint like angels,              but that there      was no effective                        creative principle around,                      so that everybody      who liked modern art        was copying it;                            Gorky was copying Picasso;                          ******* was copying Picasso;                   De Kooni                                   ng was copying Picasso;               I mean,          I say this unqualifiedly,                   I was painting French intimate pictures or whatever:             All we needed was a creative principle,             I mean something that would mobilize this capacity to paint in a creative way,                   & that's what Europe                         had that we                         hadn't had;                                                 we had always followed in their wake                         &       I thought of all the possibilities             |               [                    ], [                 ]    of free association—because I also had    a psychoanalytic background & I understood the implications of—let's just say it might be the best chance                           to really make something entirely new which everybody agreed was the thing to do;" Thus, in the early 1940s,          Robert Motherwell played a significant role in laying the foundations for the new movement of Abstract Expressionism (or the New York School):                  "Matta wanted to start a revolution,  m [a movement w/in                    Surrealism].                   He asked me to find some other                   American artists that would help start   a new movement;                   it was then that Baziotes                                            & I went to see ******* & de Kooning       & Hofmann & Kamrowski &     Busa & several other people;      &                                           if we could come with something;      Peggy Guggenheim, who liked us said that she      would put on a show of this new business;      ... so I went around explaining         _the theory of automatism_      to everybody because _the only way_      that you could have a _move - - - ment_      was that it had some _common_                                                        _principle_. It sort of all began that way." In 1942 Motherwell began to exhibit        his work in New York and in 1944        he had his first one-man show at        Peggy Guggenheim’s _“Art of This Century”_ gallery;                   that same year,                   the MoMA                   was the first museum                   purchase one of his works;   From the mid-1940s,                   Motherwell [                   ], [                 ]. (            )                   became the leading spokesman                   for _avant-garde art in America_;                   his circle coming to include                                           William Baziotes,                   David Hare, Barnett Newman,                         & Mark Rothko, with whom he eventually             started the Subjects of the Artist School (1948–49). In 1949 Motherwell divorced             Maria Emilia Ferreira y Moyeros    and in 1950 he married Bettie                                                                   Little,                                                                   with whom he had two daughters
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Picasso reported a theft By art thieves who barely had left. "Did you see them?" cops prodded. "I think so."  He nodded. "Perhaps you could sketch them To help us to ketch them." So he sat down to draw And they watched him with awe. After they knew What Pablo drew, Arrests swiftly came. I cite them by name: Mandolin, guitar, and horse. But do I jest?  Of course.
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Jan 28, 2017
Jan 28, 2017 at 12:36 PM UTC
Abstract expressionism
There was a time we lived in those museums mother, do you remember? seeing everything from Art Nouveau to German Expressionism or Cubism There was a time we walked on Adenauerplatz beneath old Linden trees There was a time our winters were full of german gingerbread & mulled wine & our Spring spent wandering the Schlosspark There was a time we spent our summers watching swallows by the sunny Wannsee lakes & our autumns in spacious cafes & international bookshops we talked the other day again about the Russian one how ever since we left home we'd not seen so many Russian books in one place it seems the vision of  home never leaves you just waits dormant in your heart for something to remind you of it just as now that Lesser Ury print reminded me of our Berlin & days of Love Parades & blissful freedom I will not regret the journey you made us take because it meant we got to live in heaven there was a time we lived there there was a time we lived there
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Sep 15, 2015
Sep 15, 2015 at 1:14 PM UTC
There was a time
A poem. Can be on many theme? And many topics too. And can express many into a debate. Even causing problems upon a date. A poem. That creative expressionism of your mind. Where you just spilling out things deep inside? Wait! The uncreated loves to put them down. Oh, they offer many reasons. But many times. It just because they can't create. A poem. That has been around for centuries. And truly apart of Americans history. Emily Dickinson, James Baldwin and O'henry. Has left behind plenty. They make you think. They make you cry. And keep you connect to your mind. Whether it's about romance. Yes, that includes love. We need poems around. To release the frustration inside.
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Jun 20, 2012
Jun 20, 2012 at 10:35 AM UTC
A Poem
DEAR PENPAL PEOPLE, funny how a book can be translated by everyone's Mercury differently--edited;} on a beauty so mystical on a plastered smile an essence so beam yet not everlasting not in a bare nor a second tormenting blurt such stars she begged them Gods for she tormented in a skeptic hurt she trails her menaces to **** in a drip of a bordeaux in a wine in a mindless sip yearning erased letters from people from faces a charm of a devil monster selfished her feels down her laces a bound to the intimate flushed upon the ultimate of the hate of the ends an evermore of upcoming pained centuries moments the gods abide to hide to conceal from human memory to blank and come across a past life to steal then to the unconscious to plant on dreams and make souls heal speechless left one on the fictional two on the cure in the weeks my delusional believed seven constellated freckles pure by the character been held mooned self-expressionism in sick mind delves I label mine forever fallen saint on the line --------ravenfeels
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Apr 19, 2021
Apr 19, 2021 at 3:49 PM UTC
Invisible Life In A Miserable Age
We are expressionist in our own actions and in our own words You can speak, act and feel all those joy and misery you have for there are a thousand ways to express one's self sometimes we can't find the right words to convey our feelings Don't be sad if you can't write your emotions in rhymes, a true poet is beyond that You can be free in your own feelings, then If you can't write it, why not dance it with the rhythm of your music If you can't dance it, why not paint it with every stroke of your brush If you can paint it, why not sing it with every syllable your tongue twisted If you can't sing it, why not cry it with every tear your heart bleed If you can't cry it, why not hug someone with all your might and be with that person until you feel better Everyone deserves to be free, to be happy and to be sad And it up to you to be that expressionist of your own emotions
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Jan 7, 2019
Jan 7, 2019 at 8:23 AM UTC
Expressionism
I left the good ones in the bag that I packed and left with a long time ago blinded by expressionism and confessionalism a portrait hung on my wall for so long I dream in blue and earthy scents of that little space between hinder and breath society placed a big burden upon my chest it whispers so many funny and true things dire to my belief of originality and being specific in the things I do mind like thin lines overlapping in many different hues I have grown ill in thought of the ordinary people you see me as flawed hurt and stupid and I see you as plain boring and mediorce eyes trail downwards about my sincere actions and sometimes I must hold my tongue being that envious eyes would like to eat a lung my manner gentle and discreet Im am nothing near the definition of obsolete and I accept it as I accept that nothing will ever with misuse be complete and in a heartbeat I retreat to that creature who beside me is petite as I am feathers of beauty brush against the slowly moving winds on my shore and I go back and wonder why everything so quickly turns into nothing descending tons of gore and then fragility comes back to its place sits on the front of my hands like a serence masterpeice reminding me who I am and leaves me permanently marked with a gray smile
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Nov 2, 2010
Nov 2, 2010 at 7:16 PM UTC
to be continued
I left the good ones in the bag that I packed and left with a long time ago blinded by expressionism and confessionalism a portrait hung on my wall for so long I dream in blue and earthy scents of that little space between hinder and breath society placed a big burden upon my chest it whispers so many funny and true things dire to my belief of originality and being specific in the things I do mind like thin lines overlapping in many different hues I have grown ill in thought of the ordinary people you see me as flawed hurt and stupid and I see you as plain boring and mediorce eyes trail downwards about my sincere actions and sometimes I must hold my tongue being that envious eyes would like to eat a lung my manner gentle and discreet Im am nothing near the definition of obsolete and I accept it as I accept that nothing will ever with misuse be complete and in a heartbeat I retreat to that creature who beside me is petite as I am feathers of beauty brush against the slowly moving winds on my shore and I go back and wonder why everything so quickly turns into nothing descending tons of gore and then fragility comes back to its place sits on the front of my hands like a serene masterpeice reminding me who I am and leaves me permanently marked smile
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Nov 1, 2010
Nov 1, 2010 at 6:36 PM UTC
smile
I am lost, and in a way where it seems as if nobody, no not even myself can find me. As if trapped inside of Waldo’s body, I seem to be striped left and right with endless wonder about how exactly I came to such a state. Not knowing how or even when it all started, I happen to be stuck in my own labyrinth of a maze. My mind trailing on endlessly, looking, searching for any and all clues, but like a virus, everything of sanity had been dropped along the way. It all just vanished! If being completely lost was a form of art, I’d be the founder of the movement, which would proceed not to be called expressionism nor surrealism, but more likely known as Davidism. In some way I managed to confuse myself, the ultimate da Vinci Code! Which tunnel to take now is all a matter of eenie-meenie-miney-mo, and to come out the other end with total understanding seems absolutely impossible right now! I am lost, and I don’t trust anyone to find me…
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Jan 1, 2015
Jan 1, 2015 at 4:03 PM UTC
The Art of Being Lost
You'd think Blake, Bosch & Emanuel Swedenborg read Pythagoras in the original & walked with Christ & Newton; E. A. Poe, the Horror-Poet; influencing the Decadence of Baudelaire, Wilde & Rimbaud;                   Pinkham Ryder's influence on Symbolism & Surrealism led, oddly, to 20th century pop culture depictions of Victorian monsters; Frankenstein was the product of the English Romantics; German Romanticism to Sturm & Drang led to Expressionism. Beardsley [dead at 25], Gustave Moreau, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Egon Schiele [dead at 28]; ||| - -| Klimt, Freud, Jung: Judaism; Id, Superego, Ego, Shadow, Anima & Animus, collective psyche, Nietzsche's Superman, eternal recurrence & will to power; Wagner's Ring Cycle...
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Jan 18, 2019
Jan 18, 2019 at 1:56 PM UTC
Victorian Monsters of Pop Culture
Her, Rising "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." Isaiah 40:31 My feet still, held gravity pulls, I'm still on the ground Your wings addorsed I stand, faithful to the King of the Skies You are the messenger of Highest Gods you represent all I wish to be *courage     power         strength* My face torn, masks unearthed ripped & savaged I'm The Scream Munch painting art alluded expressionism Oils, pastels, crayon sink into my skin as claws rip flesh away from my bone I am the Fallen you are the Rising I am your Canvas you are my Artist. © Sia Jane
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Feb 13, 2015
Feb 13, 2015 at 8:44 PM UTC
Her, Rising
On my first Christmas, I learned that the city of towering cardboard boxes and the crunchy ocean of kaleidoscopic paper were destined for the trash bag, but the complicated toys I could not yet understand were mine to keep. Just before my second birthday, my parents came home with a pink, wrinkled bundle of flesh, and said, This is your new sister. Though, at first, I found her beautiful, with those pill- sized fingernails and the soft coos she kept pushing out, I was horrified to learn that my grandparents were not taking this baby with them, that she was not here for my entertainment. But the envy soon faded, and I kept a lifelong friend. At eight, I decided not to keep the magenta cast after the stoic doctor sawed it loose. It was caked with doodles and kind notes, but it stunk of sour milk, and the boy with the copper hair had not signed it. I could not forget his taunting laugh as I fell that day, nor the fiery flush that shaded my cheeks as he snatched his hat from my hand, already numb and quickly swelling with humiliation. By eleven, I had spent so much of a childhood tripping over sentences and paragraphs and essays that when my book report bloated slowly from two pages to five to eight to ten to thirteen, I unknowingly conquered my fear, stumbling over a voice begging to be kept. When I reached fourteen, I had seen two corpses in one year—one painted as though in the height of Expressionism and resting in a casket so cheap it could have been cardboard, one fat and covered in smooth fur, collapsed onto the cool, indifferent metal of the vet’s table—and I learned that breath is in short supply. But I also learned that the destination matters less than the odyssey, so I tucked my grandmother and my beagle into my front pocket like two crisp hundred dollar bills, kept them with me wherever I traveled.
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Oct 3, 2014
Oct 3, 2014 at 11:14 PM UTC
The Odyssey
On my first Christmas, I learned that the city of towering cardboard boxes and the crunchy ocean of kaleidoscopic paper were destined for the trash bag, but the complicated toys I could not yet understand were mine to keep. Just before my second birthday, my parents came home with a pink, wrinkled bundle of flesh, and said, This is your new sister. Though, at first, I found her beautiful, with those pill- sized fingernails and the soft coos she kept pushing out, I was horrified to learn that my grandparents were not taking this baby with them, that she was not here for my entertainment. But the envy soon faded, and I kept a lifelong friend. At eight, I decided not to keep the magenta cast after the stoic doctor sawed it loose. It was caked with doodles and kind notes, but it stunk of sour milk, and the boy with the copper hair had not signed it. I could not forget his taunting laugh as I fell that day, nor the fiery flush that shaded my cheeks as he snatched his hat from my hand, already numb and quickly swelling with humiliation. By eleven, I had spent so much of a childhood tripping over sentences and paragraphs and essays that when my book report bloated slowly from two pages to five to eight to ten to thirteen, I unknowingly conquered my fear, stumbling over a voice begging to be kept. When I reached fourteen, I had seen two corpses in one year—one painted as though in the height of Expressionism and resting in a casket so cheap it could have been cardboard, one fat and covered in smooth fur, collapsed onto the cool, indifferent metal of the vet’s table—and I learned that breath is in short supply. But I also learned that the destination matters less than the odyssey, so I tucked my grandmother and my beagle into my front pocket like two crisp hundred dollar bills, kept them with me wherever I traveled.
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Self-portrait 1901 - Paris. Expressionism Period. A master stroking away with a paint brush. The subject: himself.
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Jul 18, 2013
Jul 18, 2013 at 2:38 PM UTC
Picasso
Elegy, elegy, elegy The words pop out at me, framed by the strokes of...expressionism was it? Honestly, I don’t know The minimal art history I was exposed to Has gone, been erased leaving me the white board To scrawl something else hastily before- I wonder why I read it, Is it perhaps to affirm to myself That I’m worth something? No, that can’t be right I do of course love myself, I have healthy amount of self love I suppose then, it’s confidence at stake here ...maybe? That whether I manage to memorize all the terms Whether I can keep my hands from straying to another tab That whether I can kick away the ball that is distractions and addictions and every self created villain in my fairytale Determines who I am and how Much I’m worth Is false Because I Love me I do I really do But, I still have to get out of this rut I still have to do better Then, maybe One day I’ll
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Sep 8, 2019
Sep 8, 2019 at 11:43 PM UTC
Fragmented thoughts forming a crudely pieced puzzle