I don't know.
My doc file of portraits is headed up with this quote:
“We enjoyed Granada, we met many amusing people english and spanish and it
was there and at that time that Gertrude Stein’s style gradually changed.
She says hitherto she had been interested only in the insides of people,
their character and what went on inside them, it was during that summer
that she first felt a desire to express the rhythm of the visible world.
It was a long tormenting process, she looked, listened and described. She
always was, always is, tormented by the problem of the external and the
internal. One of the things that always worries her about painting is the
difficulty the artist feels and which sends him to painting still-lifes,
that after all the human being essentially is not paintable.”
Gertrude Stein; The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas; 1933
This poem, _studio visit_ is actually in my landscape doc! I hadn't
thought of it as a portrait. I think you are right
I have two poems about clouds which are in the landscape doc; but the poem
about clouds over Deptford that I posted some time back was not filed with
landscape!!
L
On Fri, September 9, 2011 15:59, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> I like the shift to character, Lawrence, after the narrating eye has seen
> & said.
>
>
> at first i thought this was on a new poetic thread just begun, but with
> that final stanza it fits with other 'portraits' you've given us (does
> this go back to those modernist ones of Eliot (a lady) & Pound?)
>
> Doug
> On 2011-09-09, at 2:55 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>
>
>> one sees, within painting rectangles, awkwardly, awkward sense of
>> responsibility, continued in small line drawings charcoals in fresh
>> formal gesture, surfaces in turmoil
>>
>> no one speaks and then someone says bollocks
>>
>> she looks at them, raising hostility bronzing her skin carefully painted
>> the content of that visible aggression unmeant for viewing or
>> interpretation
>>
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>> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
>> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
>> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
>> wfuk.org.uk/blog ----
>> Lawrence Upton
>> Dept of Music
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>
>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
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> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10
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> People say they have to express their emotions.
> I'm sick of that. Photography doesn't teach
> you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
>
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UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
wfuk.org.uk/blog
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Lawrence Upton
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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