[lit-ideas] Re: Saturday Poem
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- Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 13:14:26 +0200
Can you give out my mail from your mailing list because the post is too much.
Thank you
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Subject : [lit-ideas] Re: Saturday Poem
> I don't, of course, know what you've been looking at but I'm reminded
> of the last time I was at, now where on earth was it, the Tate Modern
> I believe, and there was a corner with three or four Kandinsky
> paintings, only one of which I had seen reproduced. My thought was,
> "There's no way he can get away with that. You can't put that colour
> beside that colour and have them co-exist." Not only did they co-
> exist; they were wonderful. (The spelling of course clinches it. If
> I was spelling my thoughts in English, we must have been in England,
> right?) Why did he get my attention in this way? Well because I've
> pushed color. I'm not a draftsperson; that's about all I do.
>
> I can imagine the painting you're describing--if it actually exists--
> but I haven't seen it.
>
> Astonishment is indeed the goal of surprise. Also the end.
>
> I like the sound of the first line, but I don't know what it means.
> Cloth swaddles. Ah, I'm remembering a painting when the cloth seemed
> to attack a village.
>
> Kandinsky had this thing about flying. No doubt the art historians
> have said stuff on the subject.
>
> Enough. So, to bed. Thank you for writing.
>
> David Ritchie,
> heading towards being unresponsive in
> Portland, Oregon
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