What Vincent couldn't capture, that matisse just might have (it's hard to tell,
is how heliotropic the sunflower is.
 
Cheers
Peter
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Indeed!
 
Ah Vincent! -- our master of "concision and grace" -- here's his famous vase:
 
A vase on a table with about a dozen flowers of varying shades of yellow, tan and beige; a few at the top have darker centers and one on the left is green
 
 
Let there be light -- and there is light -- courtesy Google !!!
 
"And the pool was filled with water out of sunlight,"
 
CR


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Thanks.
//Looks like an instinctual reaction to Van Gough.//
P.
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Thanks, Peter. Here's some Matisse for you:
 
 
 
Cheers,
 CR


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I think your reference here is VERY relevant to Eliot's work.
Cf. Pound's Make It New.
 
From a recent interview on Matisse on Charlie Rose
re: current retrospective at MOMA:
 
"'All things considered, there is only Matisse' - Pablo Picasso"
"Questioner to Matisse 'Surely you don't put down intelligence?'
 Matisse: 'Yes. Ireject intellectulity. There is only instinct.' "
 
Cheers.
P.
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GENIUS WITHIN

A NYTimes Movie Review

By A.O. SCOTT

September 9, 2010

Jock Carroll/Lorber Films

The pianist Glenn Gould in a scene from the documentary “Genius Within.”

"[E]very artist’s goal is to transcend the limiting circumstances of individual experience and touch something larger." 

 

http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/movies/10genius.html?nl=movies&emc=mua3 

CR