Wallace Stevens wrote a poem called The Man with the Blue Guitar.
The Man with the Blue Guitar,The Emperor of Ice Cream and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird are possibly his three most famous poems.
Not long ago there was a painting of a Blue Guitar in mumok. The work showed the artist Hockney drawing a blue guitar.
Here is my photo, especially for you Rachel:
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| David Hockney - Blue Guitar (detail) |
Self-portrait with Blue Guitar. I have it in my Catalogue 2007 National Portrait Gallery David Hockney Portraits in front of me now having just popped upstairs for it. These are the Hockneys I love most. Thank you for bringing it all back to me. The Wallace Stevens poem is worth reading again too I am sure you will agree..
ReplyDeleteI agree. I'm going to read it now, this very moment! And then I'm going to reread the other two I mentioned. I feel a triptych in the offing. Maybe I'll dream it. Glad to bring happy memories back.
DeleteThere you go, I'm an absolute waste on poems, but now I really have to look these up, I loved that painting so I just need to read the poem. Thank you, Gwil, very wide range of subjects on your posts!!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy them for what they bring to your mind. The wonderful images. The ideas. The suggestions. Academics analyse them to death. This is the wrong way.
Delete__ I think I may have seen this below... but then, there are so many Hockney works. _m
ReplyDeletethis forest
wearing a hat
no birds
American blackbirds have some red on them if I remember correctly from the time they all out of the sky. Europeans are black with yellow beaks. Maybe I'll have to paint both. And in the same picture :)
Deletethe time they all "dropped" out of the sky that should read
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