Day: November 13, 2023

Noble Woman by George Condo

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Noble Woman by George Condo

Noble Woman
2009
Neo-Expressionism
Acrylic, charcoal, and pastel on canvas

‘Noble Woman’ is one of several drawing paintings by Condo in which he employs a variety of materials in a single artwork. A red image with black lines and white shading depicts a female and male figure in a cartoonish Cubist style. The male’s head rests atop the female torso. The bowtie identifies the male as Rodrigo, one of Condo’s lowlife figures who is a scoundrel.

George Condo 1957-

George Condo
Neo-Expressionism
Born: 10 December 1957, New Hampshire, USA
Nationality: American

Condo is a visual artist who works in the mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture, and printmaking. He currently lives and works in New York City

Jigsaw Falling into Place by Radiohead

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Radiohead

Jigsaw Falling into Place
Album: In Rainbows
Date: 2007
Genre: Alternative/Indie
Artist: Radiohead

Radiohead is a rock band formed in Oxfordshire in 1985. The lineup consists of Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards), brothers Jonny Greenwood (guitar, keyboards, and other instruments) and Colin Greenwood (bass), Ed O’Brien (guitar and backing vocals), and Philip Selway (drums and percussion). Radiohead’s experimentalist approach has led to the advancing sound of alternative rock

Nos Immortales by Stephen Vincent Benet

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Stephen Vincent Benet 1898-1943

Nos Immortales

Perhaps we go with wind and cloud and sun,
Into the free companionship of air;
Perhaps with sunsets when the day is done,
All’s one to me — I do not greatly care;
So long as there are brown hills — and a tree
Like a mad prophet in a land of dearth —
And I can lie and hear eternally
The vast monotonous breathing of the earth.

I have known hours, slow and golden-glowing,
Lovely with laughter and suffused with light,
O Lord, in such a time appoint my going,
When the hands clench, and the cold face grows white,
And the spark dies within the feeble brain,
Spilling its star-dust back to dust again

Stephen Vincent Benet
Born: 22 July 1898, Pennsylvania, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 13 March 1943, New York, USA

Benet was a poet, short story writer, and novelist best known for his book-length poem of the American Civil War, “John Brown’s Body” (1928) for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Stumbling Senses

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Stumbling Senses
Form: Free Verse

When first sweet love kissed me
My senses stumbled over
The long-hidden reality
Of sexuality
Intimate touches that no longer
Left me cold
With the heat of her kiss
I felt burning desire
Overwhelming my dreams
With her flames of sensuality
Impossible feelings made possible
Within her embrace
Awakening the lust
In the ecstasy of the moment
She became mine

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A Year in the Life – Day 13

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Day 13
Prompt: The most creative person you know

Hi Nigel,

‘I know this, I know this, it is Mother Nature.’

True enough you don’t get anything as creative as that lady. I think they mean a person we can physically relate to and is touchable.

‘You can touch nature as easy as pie.’

Yes, you are right and it may not be the most glorious day to be wandering around the park but even on a dull wet autumnal day she’s here

‘She’s everywhere’

Perhaps I should show you some of the manmade eye sores that will make you question that

‘I’d rather not.’

Haha, yes, they are best avoided. I do admit to having a passion for places where man has tried to invade and Mother Nature has said no and claimed it back resulting in something hideous becoming beautiful again

‘As nature intended.’

Hah, yes indeed. If you don’t mind getting all wet and muddy there is a taste of it beyond those birch trees. Not sure what the building was supposed to be, I am no Tony Robinson, but it’s worth the muddy jeans to see it.

‘That’s a huge chestnut tree growing in the middle of the floor’

Gorgeous, isn’t he? How powerful was his growth to fight his way up through the concrete and stake his claim here.

‘A super-powered conker’

And the hawthorns have taken over the walls. Nature wasn’t having this place being here that’s for sure. In the spring and summer you get a real feel of her saying, ‘I said no and I meant it’ here

‘And everyone should know you don’t argue with her’

You’d think. Not everyone sees Mother Nature as a source of wonder and inspiration, some see her as the enemy that needs to be defeated and controlled – I don’t get those people.

‘Do you want to?’

Haha, no, not really and I will keep to myself what I would rather do with them.

‘Oooh, that nasty!’

Moi? See you tomorrow, Nige

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