For the birds
Day: March 7, 2023
Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) by Henri Matisse
Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)
1907
Fauvism
Oil on canvas
The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Cone Collection, USA
Working on the sculpture, “Reclining Nude I,” Matisse accidentally damaged the piece. Before repairing it, he painted it blue against a palm fronds background. Hard and angular, the nude is a tribute to both Cézanne and a sculpture Matisse saw in Algeria. She is also an intentional response to the soft and pretty nudes seen in the Paris Salon.
Henri Matisse
Fauvism, Neo-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Primitivism in Art
Born: 31 December 1869, Le Chateau-Cambrésis, France
Nationality: French
Died: 3 November 1954, Nice, France
Matisse is regarded as the greatest colourist of the 20th century and rivalled Picasso in the importance of his innovations. As a Post-Impressionist and leader of the Fauvism movement, he sought to use colour as the foundation for expressive, decorative, and monumental paintings. Throughout his career, still-life and the nude were his favoured subjects with North Africa as an important inspiration
Cello Concerto No.2 in C minor by Dmitry Kabalevsky
Cello Concerto No.2 in C minor
1964
Concerto
Dmitry Kabalevsky
Orchestral, Opera, Ballet, Chamber Music
Born: 30 December 1904, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Died: 14 February 1987, Moscow, Russia
Kabalevsky was a composer and teacher of aristocratic Russian descent. He was a prolific composer of piano and chamber music best known for his Second Symphony, ‘Galloping Comedians’ and his Third Piano Concerto
Elegia by New Order
Elegia
Album: Low-Life
Date: 1985
Genre: Alternative/Indie
Artist: New Order
New Order is a rock band formed in 1980 in Manchester, UK. The members regrouped after the disbandment of their previous band Joy Division following the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis. The band’s integration of post-punk and electronic dance music made them one of the most acclaimed and influential bands of the 1980s. New Order was the flagship band of the Manchester-based record label Factory Records and its night club The Hacienda
Lacework
Lacework
Form: Free Verse
Our love woven like delicate Belgian lace
intricate strands combining
forming a beautiful design
like a lilac in flower
sharing its fragrance on the cool morning air
combining with the aroma of sun-kissed dew
and the wild mint growing by the pond
pungent and earthy
delicate yet strong
our love was the fierce winter wind
entwined with a warm summer breeze
embracing the golden light of sunrise
with the flaming skies of twilight
for we were the moon and the sun
mingled in the flames of love
©JezzieG2023
Dechnad Cummaisc Notes
An Irish poetic form, the Dechnad Cummaisc uses quatrains with both end and internal rhymes. The guidelines are as follows:
Each stanza consists of four lines
Lines 1 and 3 are 8 syllables each
Lines 2 and 4 contain 4 syllables each and end rhyme with each other.
The last word of line 3 rhymes with the middle word of line 4.
There is no limit to the number of quatrains used
Example
Cacophony of Discord by JezzieG
The night assaults all the senses
Crashing sublime
As beauty and terror collide
Waves ride and climb
Horror of tempestuous sea
Foreboding night
Elements dictating our fate
A date with fright
Sweeping clouds into the darkness
Of breaking ships
Of defeated broken remains
Wind strains and whips
The beams of light let them all down
Frantic scrambles
In the lost echoes of discord
Towards shambles
Towards boulders along the shore
Lightning strikes shocks
Storm’s aftermath revealed at dawn
Death on the rocks
Red-tailed Hawk — By a Highway — Sonoran Images
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. Recently, I went for a drive with a friend into the grasslands of the Sulphur Springs Valley, near the town of Willcox, AZ, about 70 miles southeast of Tucson. We were driving on a lightly-traveled public highway […]
Red-tailed Hawk — By a Highway — Sonoran Images
Latest Digital Art inspired by fairytales from around the world.
Oh this is amazing. Well done, Alice
My latest works are inspired by fairytales from around the world.
Digital painting printed on fabric.
Title: The Deamon, the Woman and the Bird – african fairy tale from Senegal.
This is a drawing I created on my phone and it depicts the story of a man in a far off land who goes in search of a wife but couldn’t find the right partner. One day he took his horse for a ride and met a wise old man. The old man told him to go into the woods where he would find a lemon tree with three lemons and told him to pick them and see what happens.
So the man picked the lemons and began to peel one of them. Suddenly a beautiful woman appeared in the clearing who asked him to give her some bread and a tobacco leaf. The man said he didn’t have any…
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Metal March Day 7
Thunderstruck
AC/DC
1992
Really can’t have a metal list without something from the Aussie kings of metal AC/DC – Thunderstruck. Dedicated to the awesome Aussie-Brit, Terry Clitheroe, the best poetic mentor a guy could have had xx
Bluster (YDWP)
Inspired by and written for Your Daily Word Prompt – my thanks to Sheryl
Definition: Bluster – v. talk in a loud, aggressive, or indignant way with little effect
Synonyms: rant, thunder, boast, brag, swagger
Form: Pathya Vat
a swaggered walk
threatened the peace
words never cease
heard it before
the ranting on
the same old thing
no good to bring
my ears shut down
toss your weight round
aggression’s rag
becomes a drag
I’m done, I’m gone
©JezzieG2023
Treetop (WWP)
Inspired by and written for Weekend Writing Prompt – my thanks to Sammi
Form: Free Verse
where are you
I can’t see from the ground
with you hiding in the skies
but I will climb up
and join you for the view
while swaying in wind
making you leaves shake with a bustle-rustle
and it seems like you are talking to me
about the panorama of woods and fields
or perhaps you’re saying
it’s time to go down now
Word Count: 63
©JezzieG2023
Violet Skies (WPCC)
Inspired by and written for Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – thank you Sue and GC
Form: Paulo Comitatu Sonnet
Come quietly please violet skies
softly enter my room
eyes adjust to the gloom
ready to meet my doom
Take me quickly sweet violet skies
my love don’t make me wait
don’t let the hour get late
don’t pause, don’t hesitate
My violet skies come to ease my pain
no more time left to weep
violet skies come to reap
eternal souls must sleep
Violet skies released me into the rain
So you and I may dance with love again
©JezzieG2023
Jezzie G 