Day: April 29, 2024

Scylla by Ithell Colquhoun

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Scylla by Ithell Colquhoun

Scylla
1938
Surrealism
Oil on board
Collection of the Tate, United Kingdom

‘Scylla’ is Colquhoun’s most important work. The canvas is dominated by two vertical rocks rising out of clear water. Both phallic and feminine the painting situates Colquhoun’s work within the surrealist movement in its widest sense.

Ithell Colquhoun 1906-1988

Ithell Colquhoun
Surrealism
Born: 9 October 1906, Shillong, India
Nationality: British
Died: 11 April 1988, Cornwall, England

Colquhoun was a painter, occultist, poet, and author. In the 1930s she was part of the British Surrealist Group but was expelled when she refused to renounce her connection with occult groups

Viola Concerto by Béla Bartók

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Béla Bartók 1881-1945

Viola Concerto
1945
Orchestral

Béla Bartók
Classical, Russian Dance
Born: 25 March 1881, Sânnicolau Mare, Romania
Nationality: Hungarian
Died: 26 September 1945, New York, USA

Bartók was a composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist, considered one of the 20th century’s most important composers. His collection and study of folk music and was a founder of comparative musicology, now known as ethnomusicology

Englishman In New York by Sting

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Sting

Englishman In New York
Album: …Nothing Like the Sun
Date: 1987
Genre: Pop
Artist: Sting

Sting is a musician and actor. He was the former frontman, songwriter, and bassist for the new wave band The Police from 1977 until their breakup in 1986. Sting began his solo career in 1985 and his music includes elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new age, and world music within his compositions

Guadarrama by Antonio Machado

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Antonio Machado 1875-1939

Guadarrama
1969

Guadarrama, is it you, old friend,
mountains white and gray
that I used to see painted against the blue
those afternoons of the old days in Madrid?
Up your deep ravines
and past your bristling peaks
a thousand Guadarramas and a thousand suns
come riding with me, riding to your heart

Antonio Machado
Born: 26 July 1875, Seville, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Died: 22 February 1939, Collioure, France

Machado was a poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement Generation of ’98. His early modernist work evolved into an intimate form of symbolism with a romantic characteristic. Machado’s style engaged with humanity with a Taoist contemplation of existence

Season (Ovi Poetry Challenge)

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Inspired by and written for the Ovi Poetry Challenge, with thanks to Ronovan

Ovi Poetry Challenge 45: SEASON is your inspiration.

Form: Ovi

If life is seen as but a year
Do seasons laugh or shed a tear
Do changing tides bring hope or fear
In spring, summer, fall, or winter

From darkness, we come into life
Without doubts, adult stress, or strife
In this our spring we’re running rife
While learning and growing too fast

Summer comes with pubescent pains
Too young for love we want its gains
Broken hearts sobbing summer’s rains
Soon enough we find that one love

Together hear wedding bells ring
See our children begin their spring
Then feel the chill autumn can bring
Beneath greying hair, time moves on

Our sunset years of growing old
Are graced by colours bright and bold
Until widowhood makes it cold
Then winter must be faced alone

©JezzieG2024

End of the Road (Ragtag Daily Prompt)

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Inspired by and written for the Ragtag Daily Prompt, my thanks to Bushboy

Ragtag Daily Prompt Thursday: End of the Road

Form: Zejel

I found a pebble on the beach
It lay within the tidal reach
Beneath blue skies where seagulls screech

Pebble please will you answer me
How does it feel there in the sea
Rushed by the tides, can you be free
I asked the pebble on the beach

‘It’s a journey’ the pebble said
‘It ends with shore on which I’m laid
Before that, I don’t see ahead’
Now it’s here in the tidal reach

Journey done, tomorrow is closed
From the deep it has been exposed
I pick it up to be transposed
To echoes of a seagull’s screech

Here in the cottage at the lane’s end
Round the corner and past the bend
Upon on a shelf, my stoney friend
That dear pebble from on the beach

©JezzieG2024