Friday, January 7, 2011

Hopper is Strauss.

kiss - the
lips, RED.
like
cheeks, ROUGED.
like
crazy clowns 
with
white skin
like (the girl)?

Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967). Soir Bleu (1914). Oil on canvas. 91.44 x 182.88 cm (36 x 72 in.). Whitney Museum of American Art. © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper. Photograph by Geoffrey Clements.  
[http://artmuseumjournal.com/edward_hopper_soir_bleu.aspx]

yellow, blue&blue-er... green and red and black and white and RED and round again...

i see a nightmare in a day-dream where the north is now north-west but it's north because nobody knows -

                        and
                     up                         
                  up
we're caught up - up, up and away and "the crowd roared its approval
 - that was the most shocking thing."

do you see?

red is red because there's a blue that's blue
so new is new
because of -

We stood in line to get our tickets to the Edward Hopper exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
I was one of many milling around the spaces and twisty corners of the exhibit.
I don't like clowns, coulrophobia, it's called - those bloody(-red) eyes and grinning lips.
I was tired, sleepy, swaying on my feet and then a woman turned around and grinned at me -
"It's so creative, isn't it? Absolute genius."
Black hair and pale wrinkled skin, red lips - the young lady in the green paint is an old woman in black fur -

and then i'm just one of a mass audience of another Salome, where Edward Hopper is Richard Strauss.

then and now:
modern mingling - genius and popularity.

1 comment:

  1. One of my favorite current televisions shows is Bones, about a forensic anthropologist named Temperance Brennan (played by Emily Deschanel) and an FBI agent named Seeley Booth (played by David Duchovny) who team up to solve murders. Booth calls Brennan by the nickname "Bones." And he also happens to be afraid of clowns, a fact that has provided provides both amusing and serious plot points over the past couple of seasons.

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