Gestural Poems

MAKIING A GESTURE

Dutch artist Willem de Kooning
with gestural* art had a fling
Action expressed with nonchalance
a genre requiring taking a chance

*www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/g/gestural

GESTURAL EKPHRASIS

Wilhelm de Kooning in a state of flux
spontaneous gestures at the crux

Joan Miro with impulsive slashes&spots
broken lined perspective dots

Henri Michaux painting without a thought
arn active process randomly sought

to HIKU or HAIKU that is the question

HAIKU  is a centuries old Japanese traditional phonetical & cultural poetic form whereas HIKU is a relatively recently established English language version thereof 'birthed' from last half of the 20th century.
Hiku is an imagist tristich like its elder cousin,without a title,and with a similar economy of words ,inherently enigmatic & with a caesura or an ellipsis and surprise ending.
A similar sense of pause the aesthetic insight flowing from perception gained   from  'one breath length ' composition that flowed from the  Japanesese 17 onji sound inherent in the haiku.
Without  any syllabic( 5-7-5 ) line restrictions, the hiku is the 'free verse' version of the haiku,similar but different ,a present tense poetic in another language - hiku is the written or recited equivalent to arts 'gestural spontaneous happening'
.

GESTURAL ART a personal defintion

GESTURAL ART IN ACTION

spontaneous
  instinctive
     instaneous
informal
freely
  formed


random
momentary
   immediate
 impulsive
impetuousity
in
inherent
  perception

ACTION MAN wilhem

Dutch American Wilhem de Kooning
made his gestural actions sing
With intiuitive painterly flux
experiential spontaneity ever the crux

dangerous eyes poetrix

         


         piercing gaze
         inviting mouth
      gestural noir scene

DE KOONING ekphrasis

Dutch artist Willem de Kooning
with gestural* art had a fling
Action expressed with nonchalance
his art always calling for a response

*www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/g/gestural

MY GESTURAL ART

AN OPEN FORM

bold  expressive

applied
spontaneity
of
  visceral
feelings
intricate &
  unpredictable
evolving
 organically
a
physical engagement
energy & emotions
in
&
of the moment

gestures

processed
  in
a
sense
  of
chaotic
   immediacy

JUST SAYING my art AN EMPERICAL VIEW

gestural
 abstraction
 immediate
spontaneous
  drips blobs
 from the tube

non-formal
  un-formulated
art informel
  sans cérémonie

an
absence
of
 a premeditated
   structure
 conception
       or approach
dribbled
splashed
   smeared

an emphasis
upon
  the physical
process
  itself

Clerihew Michaux

Poeteer Henri Michaux
imagist influence once did grow
With extravaganza so verbal
&Tachists art so gestural

Distractions

DISTRACTIONS
figurative
  motifs
emotive
 gestural
come
 naturally
everywhere

remember
a
 moment
alongside
influential
imagery

feelings
of the
 existential
 of purpose
of themes
 traversing
meaning
& motivations
to ruuminate
upon
uncover
&
remember

the
power
 of
unmistakable
 imagination
a
space
full
of
significant
 matter
punctuated
by
optical
 effect
layered
& entrenched
 over
recurring motifs


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright © Brian Strand

Configurations

CONFIGURATIONS

 excitment
in gestural
 figurative
emotive
 motifs

highlighted
 moments
becoming
reasons
&
 influences
 of
existential
purposets

incorporating
 themes
 taking stock
events
in
 polar
 opposites
 to ruminate
over
&
acknowledge
imagination
 uncover
see
&remember

so
open
& free
a
collaborative
harmony
as a
 starting point

punctuate
&
entrench
 a
recurring
optical
effect
of
an
unknown

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright © Brian Strand

Clerihew Jorn

Danish Asgar Jorn
painted boldly in Free formi
A Founder of CoBrA school
with gestural art so cool

Combined Outlines

COMBINED OUTLINES
gestural flourishes
mingling
with
the
naive
images

solitary
 simplicity 
of
imagery
reflowering
subtlety
enlarged
rough-hewn
&given
grandeur

a diagram
of isolation
in everyday
images

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright © Brian Strand

Clerihew Hartung

Adman Hans Hartung
gestural ab art the song he sung
Spontaneous ,neat& free
a bit like Chinese calligraphy

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