Sunday fellowship
Henri Le Sidaner's 'Le Dimanche
so ' typique 'of a muted Symboliste branch
Dreamy, Sunday, atmospheric date
a tranquil imagination in quintuplicate
Le Dimanche (Sunday) by Henri Le Sidaner
usually set aside by faithful for prayer
Here in his imagination
lovely ladies of delightful a 'cinquation'
Margaret Macdonald becoming CRMac's wife
led an active artistic life
Together made many a design
of floral motifs so fine
Edmond-François Aman-Jean
we're within his symbolist dream
Renewal & awakening it's said to mean
to me ..a beauty arrives on.the scene
Belgian Symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff
avant-garde art he love quite a lot
Pastel dream lady-like was his thing
in Memories' the tennis scene a novel swing
Tribute to William Soutar 1898-1943
A Perthshire Lad William Soutar
William S* showed a poetic voice
the quatrain form,his choice
he named a whigmaleerie
became a lasting legacy
Wiliam Soutar famed for his 119 American cinquains(which he labelled epigrams) also wrote whigmaleeries for children .
In dialect and lyric William’s
poetry soon found fame.
Whims and fanciful notions
these whigmaleerie were known.
Less popular yet, equally unique
verse in English, oh so terse. This
genre , American cinquain consolidated
a reputation,once again.
Grew to manhood on the river Tay,
Writing poems ,most every day;
Cinquains,epigrams, whigmaleerie-
& His diary of a dying man,left
Telling observations, for all to see.
Radical engraver Charles Maurin
put the art world in quite a spin
Illustrator for journal Le Temps nouveau
from his brush intimate portraits were to flow
Mostly an oddball was Magritte
here however a portrait sweet
Usually & reputably so surreal
this 'cig girl' is so so real
Belgian Rene Magritte
whose paintings were so neat
Full of stilled enigmatic
in scenesso idiosyncratic
Rene Magritte so surrealiste
was also a moraliste
His art as a dream
never reveal what they dream
Renee Magritte,an enigma in a bowler hat
I wonder what we should make of that
perhaps they are his alter ego
he never said so we'll never know
so
banal
yet
deadpan
absurd
clashing
symbols
heard
in
the eye
where
imagery
is
all
Da Vinci so famed for his 'Mona'
this Lisa is such an enigma
My preference is his first painted face
hence a clerihew pic with such grace
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde
wrote a novel gothic styled
A 'Picture of Dorian Gray'
and a very popular Victorian play*
*Importance of Being Ernest
Known for Venus is Bottecelli
With hair so very carefree
A birth so imaginatively interpretative
rightly an conic superlative
Hodlers Horizontals
Hodler's five ladies in blue*
'a view into infinity' so true
A linked handed cinquain
their beauty in memory remain
The "ladies in blue" by Swiss Symbolist painter Ferdinand Hodler most famously refers to his monumental final masterpiece, 'View to Infinity'
Ferdinand Hodler had no self doubt
his topical art had much clout
He also loved the silhouette
narrative allegoryhus safe bet
Alphonse Mucha a Czech
his paintings easy to detect
So distinctive & stylized
even prints now valued &prized
Lichtenstein Warhol & Mark Rothko
varied modern art style now on show
Make of it what you will
prints thereof still 'ring the till
MUSICAL MEN SERIES scj jonnas
Satie Cage & Joplin
how to describe.. how to begin
Each progressive in their own way
a trio indeed so difficult to play
SIMPLICITY SERIES verticals
Painter Edward Coley Burne-Jones
on 'golden stairs" truly in the 'zone'
Such beauties in a spiral vertical
passive 'prb' so atypical
*Also see my SIMPLICITY SERIES prb babes
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