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The Course of Empire
My last post of 2010 found me at Locust Grove on the Hudson River’s east bank, so I’m embracing the new year with a post or two (or three) related to the Hudson River School. The school was a group of...
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The Consummation and Fall of Empire
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage was written between 1812 – 1818 and was the first example of the Byronic hero. Byron himself didn’t care for the poem because it was too autobiographical and after it was...
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The Waldorf-Astoria
Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria Fine living . . . a la carte? Come to the Waldorf-Astoria! LISTEN HUNGRY ONES! Look! See what Vanity Fair says about the new Waldorf-Astoria: “All the luxuries of...
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Tropical foliage
I like the back story behind The Black Panther. It’s another piece from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s 1934 collection of Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) paintings and etchings. It stands out...
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Spoken Verse: Kubla Khan
Rogert Ebert posted a tribute to Samuel Taylor Coleridge on his blog (in the Chicago Sun-Times) yesterday because he died on 25 July 1834. Ebert has a 1977 experimental film of Rime of the Ancient...
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Spoken Verse: Cinnamon Peeler
As I recall from this blog’s last post, the YouTube channel Spoken Verse had its video The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje disabled for violating YouTube Community Guidelines. Roger Ebert said,...
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Hallowe’en Parody
I can’t remember why I had Odilon Redon’s Smiling Spider sitting in media. I think I was going to do something with “lithography.” Yes, that’s right, and it was too technical a process to have any fun...
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Innisfree
I guess I’m lazy today. This post is almost exactly the same as the [see below] blog post was on Friday, August 2oth, 2010. And yes, that really is the color of the blog title and inspirational...
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Hymnes of Astraea
The Portraiture of Elizabeth I of England is another complex arts history bonanza. Wikipedia tells me it may be impossible for modern viewers to see the hundreds of images of Elizabeth as her subjects,...
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Dost thou know?
A comment by new blog follower srs666, a.k.a Masterymistery, who, in reality, is Steven R. Schwarz (of greater Sydney, Australia) was kind of the inspiration for this post. More accurately, my reply to...
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Balaclava
The introduction to Norton Anthology of English Literature; subtopic: The Victorian Age, tells me that at Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee (1897), Mark Twain observed, “British history is two thousand...
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A Bonnet Maker
Goetz Kluge is an Electronics Engineer in Munich, Germany. He left a comment and Flickr link on Hymnes of Aestraea in April: “When illustrating a long and well known poem by Lewis Carroll, Henry...
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O Nightingale!
A picture is painted. The rising sun reflects on white petals of oleander; a tinge of crimson surrounded by shadowy grey. A new day dawns. Suddenly, all is quiet. A soft wind stirs fragrance from an...
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Basil Tree
I think August has turned into Poems by Oscar Wilde month. He wrote most of them at Trinity College in Dublin, and many were published in magazines, especially Dublin University Magazine. He easily...
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Were you at Sedan?
Today is not the day for more Albrect Durer, as alluded to in my previous post. Instead, I am diverted to the poetry of Oscar Wilde, for which I blame the Literature Network. His first book of poetry,...
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At Lake Isle
Mercury (as the personification of painting) Hendrick Goltzius, 1611 From Roger Ebert’s Journal: Ezra Pound also wrote a poem about the Lake Isle of Innisfree. And shared a cottage with Yeats. Ezra...
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Escher: The Bard
Back to the M. C. Escher meme and Goetz (or Goete in Korea) Kluge’s partial comment on the previous post: Recently I got curious and looked a bit beyond Henry Holiday. Artists have fun in alluding to...
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Gray and Jones: The Bard
To continue with Thomas Gray’s The Bard: A Pindaric Ode. Recall from the previous post “Edward I, after his conquest of Wales [1283], ordered all bards to be slaughtered in order to draw the people’s...
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Ebert: Leave of Presence
Roger Ebert died today. I want to thank him for introducing me to the SpokenVerse YouTube channel on Roger Ebert’s Journal at the Chicago Sun-Times. … One of the richest resources on YouTube is an...
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Szymborska: Vermeer
I still plan a post on Ansel Adams and Polaroid (in general) but I saw “The Milk Maid” posted by Art, Culture and Civilization on Facebook . I ‘shared’ it along with Wislawa Szymborska’s poem about the...
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