Just as I thought, as soon as I hit the post button they was a clamoring, a cacophony of whining complaints, “What about me? You used to admire my works for hours!
Nothing worse than artists being rejected. For the record, I wasn’t rejecting my past loves, I just didn’t have the room!!!
So here is another twenty!
1. William Turner, 1789-1862- everything
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway. The first Impressionist!
2. M.C. Escher, 1898-1972- everything
Hands. The only other artist that I’ve met. He didn’t speak English. We nodded at each other.
3. Winslow Homer, 1836-1910- everything
The Gulf Stream. The master at watercolor. How does he do that?
4. Charles Sheeler, 1883-1965- everything
Golden Gate. He made factories beautiful
5. Andy Goldsworthy, 1956- – everything
Cairn at Penpoint. Oh, to walk in the English woods and find a Goldsworthy.
6. Filippo Brunelleschi, 1377-1446- everything
The Duomo Dome. A brilliant architect!
7. Gian Bernini, 1598-1680- everything
The Ectasy of St. Teresa. It’s stone, I cant believe it’s stone!
The Rape of Proserpina. Finger indents!
8. Frank Stella, 1936- ,- most everything
Sinjerli, Variation 1. First fell in love at SeaTac Airport, mural after mural of Stella.
9. HR Giger, 1940-2014- most everything
Alien. Recently died, a real loss. Suffered from night truama, most serious case studied.
10. Paulo Uccello, 1397-1475- most everything
Battle at San Romano. He loved perspective more than his wife (she said). Look at the guy laying down, the first foreshortening!!
11. Masaccio, 1401-1428 – most everything
The Tribute Money. He invented perspective in painting!! That building!!
12. Leonardo DaVinci, 1452-1519- most everything
Self Portrait. I know, the Mona Lisa, he did do other stuff!
13. Paul Cezanne, 1839-1906- most everything
Card Players. And the oranges… the peaches!!
14. Edgar Degas, 1834-1917- most everything
Dancers in Blue. See my menu of dancers for my homage to Degas
15. Sandro Botticelli, 1445-1510- most everything
Angel, no words
16. Edward Hopper, 1882-1967- most everything
Nighthawks, so many others, but this one is great!
17. Amadeo Modigliani, 1884-1920- selected
Jeanne Hebuterne With Hat And Necklace. African masks!
18. Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954- selected
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird. Frida can be hard to look at.
19. Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973- selected
The Young Ladies of Avignon, so many to like
20. Frank Frazetta, 1928-2010- selected
Conan, the Barbarian, paperback covers were never the same.
And where is Georgia O’Keefe?
Poetry Loves
I must admit that I have neglected this love most of all. I have been known to write some, some badly, some not so bad. I love the sound of the words, the power of the sound, poetry must be read aloud. Okay, maybe that is just my definition, but I believe it.
So, who, and what are my favorites? Again I will just free associate and see how the list forms.
1. Richard Brautigan, 1935-1984
June 30th, June 30th (1978)
Loading Mercy with a Pitchfork(1975)
Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt (1970)
The San Francisco Weather Report(1969)
Please Plant This Book (eight poems printed on separate seed packet envelopes, 1968)
2. Walt Whitman, 1819-1892
Leaves of Grass (1855)
O Captain! My Captain! (1865)
3. Homer, 750 B.C.
The Iliad (700 B.C.)
The Odyssey (700 B.C.
4. William Blake, 1757-1827
The Tiger (1784)
The Angel (1784)
5. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1919- ,
Pictures of the Gone World (1955)
A Coney Island of the Mind (1958)
Come Lie with Me and Be My Love (1967)
6. Dylan Thomas, 1914-1953
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night (1951)
And Death Shall Have No Dominion (1933)
7. e.e. cummings, 1894-1862
!blac (1958)
I Have Found What You Are Like (1955)
8. Annie Dillard, 1945-
Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (1974)
Teaching A Stone To Talk (1984) not a poem, but I love it
Mornings Like This (1995)
9. William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
All The Worlds a Stage
Shall I Compare Thee (Sonnet 18)
10. Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
The Divine Comedy (1300)
11. Edgar Allen Poe, 1809-1849
The Raven (1845)
Annabel Lee (1849)
Lenore (1843)
12. Emily Dickinson, 1839-1886
I Felt A Funeral in My Brain (1862)
I’m Nobody! Who are You? (1891)
13. Maya Angelou, 1928-2014
And Still I Rise (1978)
On Aging (2015)
Alone (1975)
14. Pablo Neruda, 1904-1973
Twenty Love Poems (1924)
100 Love Sonnets (1986)
15. Samuel Coleridge, 1772-1834
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)
Kubla Khan (1816)
17. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
Brahma (1856)
Uriel (1847)
18. Robert Frost, 1874-1963
The Road Not Taken (1916)
Birches (1816)
Stopping By the Woods (1924)
19. Gary Snyder, 1930-
The Back Country (1967)
Axe Handles (1983)
20. Hugo Ball. 1886-1927
Karawane (1916)
And I say, “Bosso Fataka!”