Best Matisse Poems
The flowers are not alone,
Their souls belong to the bees,
they belong to butterflies,
belong to God,
Above all, don’t pick them,
Because as soon as they die,
Except in a blue and yellow vase
Painted by Matisse.
Look you for Matisse's Daughter?
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The cat glides paw in the water.
It is glaring at three goldfish.
Jolly tulips are on left side.
The bowl with fish is on a dish.
Gawp at colors so bright in frame...
The cat glides paw in the water.
I guess the fish have fear inside!
(No sign of Matisse's daughter.)
The wallpaper has hearts on it -
Look garish in Fauvist color.
The cat glides paw in the water.
Nothing here to mark as duller.
This cat goes yellow, mark it well...
Never like the one of daughter.
The three fish look up to the cat.
The cat glides paw in the water.
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The painting describes "Le Chat aux Poissons Rouges",
translated correctly as goldfish, not red fish.
4/24/2017
Contest - Celebration of Art
Sponsor - Kim Rodriguez
1st place win
SIT DOWN LIKE MATISSE
Sit down like Matisse
with coloured paper and scissors
and cut a red Eastern poppy -
papaver orientale!
Stare at goldfish in a bowl,
consider your life in art;
what it's done for your soul:
luxe, calme et volupte.
MATTISE CUT-OUT an Ekphrasis
Colour combinations,yellows &blacks
of every hue,gouache paper,paint,
pins&glue.Cut-out patterns,pasted
pastiche,outlines enssemblage traced,
time after time.Out of the blue nudes
appear,modelled maquettes a last period
coda of the master’s career.
Inspired by Matisse Cut-out book Jazz
Listen to me recite this ekphrasis on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro
Acrylic is an exuberant technique
giving life to colors so unique,
reminiscent of a Matisse.
The pine-scented breeze drifts
from mounts to hills,
an ambient of skylarks trills.
The French Autumn landscape
with mounts and lake,
an escape for the elite.
The noon holds mystique,
away from harsh critique
paints lovely Bernadette.
The delicate cotton canvas
is too small to contain all images;
the artist, struggling manages.
The brush drips on grass
changing the shade of the violets;
she stoops down to clean up the mess.
MADAME MATISSE 1
green with envy
a master's wife-
portrait-not still life
MARGUERITE 2
oh marguerite
oh so sweet
in pretty dress,so neat
HAIR 3
la chevelure-
locks in shocks
matisse,ma cher
LORETTE 4
lorette,ma petite
so sad,so sweet
THE SISTER 5
one of three,enfamille
her gaze,engages,we
AN ODALISQUE 6
curve and shape,for sure
sans evrything,mais
concubine et paramour
STUDENT GIRL 7
greta moll-
still life,doll
ITALIAN GIRL 8
laurette,ma petite
model italiano,svelte
UPSTAIRS MAID 9
ever-present
never hurried or delayed
within dining-table laid
CHAPEAU GIRL 10
chapeau fleuri
feminine
charmante,mais oui
DAY-DREAMER 11
lost in thought
day-dreams hold sway
thoughts drift miles away
ANTOINETTE 12
portrait of still life
so calm,...and yet..
See my cartoons @matissemaidens.blogspot.com
Hothouse atmosphere like a harem,
but this is not his only kind.
"Still Life with Vegetables"
causes my nod as well
of a nice canvas
with old pitcher
in picture
and the
fruit.
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11/23/2015
Contest - Favorite Painter
Sponsor - Nayda Ivette Negron
1st place win
Henri Matisse
became a person of interest to the local police
when he painted La Dance
they suggested he plan to shortly leave La France.
MATISSE AGAIN
Amelie,Marguerite each neat
dressed oh so sweet.Lorette
Antoinette portrayed so calm
and yet..day dreaming
student,Italian or odalisque
upstairs maid,enchapeau,chevelure
I’m sure, one if not all
awaited Henri’s call, never
to suppose immortality in
their canvas pose.
Listen to me read this ekphrasis on youtube under name of ichthyschiro
With
fingers
bent
he brushed
no more
scissors
paper
glue
alors
alors-
colour
cut-outs
litter
the floor
and
shapes
anew
so blue
so blue
MATISSE MAIDENS
Maidens..so many.Marguerite
dressed so neat, Laurette and
Lorette so sad, so sweet.The
upstairs maid with Greta Moll
his still life doll.Odalisques
curves and shapes, in colour
and drapes.Chapeaux and
Chevelure with locks astray.
A sister or two,and a wife, green
with envy,to paint and portray
Listen to me read this and others at this link
http://youtube.com/ichthyschiro
nude abstractions-
cut-outs
blue on blue
a Hiku is any English language variation on the Japanese haiku
BLUE NUDE SERIES
no doubts
cut-outs
a melange
of coleur
in cut-outs
re-post inspired by Janis contest
With
fingers
bent
he brushed
no more
scissors
paper
glue
alors
alors-
colour
cut-outs
litter
the floor
and
shapes
anew
so blue
so blue