Posted by Atticus on October 9, 2004, at 22:08:07
In reply to Re: poem ... A Fractured Guitar Floats Origami Notes » Atticus, posted by malthus on October 9, 2004, at 16:27:55
Hi Malthus,
The opening escaped painting is indeed Dali's icon of surrealism "Persistence of Memory."
In case you're curious, the other pieces on the lam mentioned are:
Edvard Munch, "The Scream" (modernism);
Claude Monet, almost any of his water lily pieces (impressionism);
Jackson Pollock, one of his drip and splatter "action" paintings (abstract expressionism);
Roy Lichtenstein, "BLAM" (Pop Art);
And Georges Braque, "Man with a Guitar" (cubism).
I tried to include a representative example of most of the major art movements of the 20th century. (Left out Dadaism -- the poem was getting too long and most Dada works are not well-known.) Thanks for your compliments. The crazy rhyme scheme I made up (one internal rhyme per verse (i.e. "draped" and "escape" in the first vignette) was combined with a sustained rhyme that carries throughout the whole poem and appears in the 7th line of each section. Man, did that get tiresome fast -- seemed like a fun idea at the time but it was exhausting to sustain that rhyme all the way to the end. I'm glad you posted. Always good to get your input. ;) Atticus
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