Friday, October 19, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
My tribute to four Spanish masters
Hi everyone,
IT'S BEEN long time since I have posted anything on the blog.
Here is my small tribute to four Spanish masters.
Four Spanish Masters
Calatrava, I bow down to you,
For, someone said, “why is Taj Mahal a wonder”?
“Because it's wonderful”, I said.
If appreciations could express themselves,
they would dance around your majestic bridges
And make them look as simple as ‘wonder’.
One master has influenced Carlo’s canvas
And adorned Boccioni’s brush
For how does one adore you
If not with lines, shapes and lights, where words fail?
The king of guitar has awed all with his tunes,
The black magic woman itself succumbs in front of his
Lilting notes.
Neruda is not a man of charming chants
But his words of a mundane world has caused flutter
across the globe.
Four Spanish masters, whom I revere.
Their magic wands touched the frames;
All lifeless dull canvases sprang back to life.
.......................................
Hi all,
FIRST, let me be honest with myself. I am not a fan of Picasso. I personally find Gockel or Kandinsky better painters than Picasso. Maybe, because I love easy flow of the brush and not twists or angles or cubes. If I become an artist, I would not draw anything cubic or hard edges or anything futuristic. I would rather draw something easy and flowing, something very contemporary. Though I respect Picasso for he is an artist in his own right. If I ask you what is the most important monumental work of Picasso? You’ll definitely say, Guernica. Right? But what moves me the most is his work Violin Jolie Eva, 1912 and Girl in Front of a Mirror, 1932.
The first one is the best example of his experimentation with collage and assemblage, where simple art has become three dimensional and sculptural. In Girl in Front of a Mirror, we see the harmony and sensuality of colour and patterns. In this, there is not hard geometric pattern, but pure rhythmic flow. Many art critics see Picasso only as a proponent of Cubist art. Well, he does represent the genre of cubo-fururistic art, but if you closely view details of his arts segment-wise, you will see three main periods that gave birth to such wonderful works of art as Family of Acrobats with Ape, 1905 and Two Brothers, 1906, which I think have been largely ignored by art critics.
The first period is his experimentation with colours: Picasso’s Blue and Picasso’s Pink: a well-balanced colour composition with brilliant tones creating warm moods. The second period is experimentation with shapes, for which he is famous as a cubist painter. The surreal Picasso does not impress me as other such artists do. The third period is his work with rhythm and flow, which is visible in Girl in Front of a Mirror.
.......................................
I LOVE Neruda for the simplicity of his renderings and the mundane, down-to-earth voice that speaks as clearly and simply as never before.
“And it was at that age…Poetry arrived
In search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where
It came from, from winter or a river.” ---- Poetry, from Isla Negra
Neruda’s words are simple, vivid, clear and there is no hidden aesthetics, it’s pure language for language’s sake.
“Then up the ladder of the earth I climbed
Through the barbed jungle’s thickets
Until I reached you Macchu Picchu” ---- The Heights of Macchu Picchu
He is very candid and there is no hypocrisy when he says “I loved her and sometimes she loved me too.” His love is not platonic and he is not worried about it.
.......................................
SANTIAGO Calatrava is perhaps the most revered architect in the world. I wish to see his masterpieces personally, and I don’t know when that will happen.
.......................................
I REVERE Santana for one or two of his musical pieces. Though I am not a great fan of rock music, I do love new age world music, semi-classical Indian and fusion. Those who have a little bit of taste of Indian music classes, must have known how rigorous Indian music is unlike its Western counterpart. For, we have a tradition of rich and varied music which is centuries old. I remember, my music teacher used to beat students with a wooden-ruler if any of them failed to perform or did not do the homework.
IT'S BEEN long time since I have posted anything on the blog.
Here is my small tribute to four Spanish masters.
Four Spanish Masters
Calatrava, I bow down to you,
For, someone said, “why is Taj Mahal a wonder”?
“Because it's wonderful”, I said.
If appreciations could express themselves,
they would dance around your majestic bridges
And make them look as simple as ‘wonder’.
One master has influenced Carlo’s canvas
And adorned Boccioni’s brush
For how does one adore you
If not with lines, shapes and lights, where words fail?
The king of guitar has awed all with his tunes,
The black magic woman itself succumbs in front of his
Lilting notes.
Neruda is not a man of charming chants
But his words of a mundane world has caused flutter
across the globe.
Four Spanish masters, whom I revere.
Their magic wands touched the frames;
All lifeless dull canvases sprang back to life.
.......................................
Hi all,
FIRST, let me be honest with myself. I am not a fan of Picasso. I personally find Gockel or Kandinsky better painters than Picasso. Maybe, because I love easy flow of the brush and not twists or angles or cubes. If I become an artist, I would not draw anything cubic or hard edges or anything futuristic. I would rather draw something easy and flowing, something very contemporary. Though I respect Picasso for he is an artist in his own right. If I ask you what is the most important monumental work of Picasso? You’ll definitely say, Guernica. Right? But what moves me the most is his work Violin Jolie Eva, 1912 and Girl in Front of a Mirror, 1932.
The first one is the best example of his experimentation with collage and assemblage, where simple art has become three dimensional and sculptural. In Girl in Front of a Mirror, we see the harmony and sensuality of colour and patterns. In this, there is not hard geometric pattern, but pure rhythmic flow. Many art critics see Picasso only as a proponent of Cubist art. Well, he does represent the genre of cubo-fururistic art, but if you closely view details of his arts segment-wise, you will see three main periods that gave birth to such wonderful works of art as Family of Acrobats with Ape, 1905 and Two Brothers, 1906, which I think have been largely ignored by art critics.
The first period is his experimentation with colours: Picasso’s Blue and Picasso’s Pink: a well-balanced colour composition with brilliant tones creating warm moods. The second period is experimentation with shapes, for which he is famous as a cubist painter. The surreal Picasso does not impress me as other such artists do. The third period is his work with rhythm and flow, which is visible in Girl in Front of a Mirror.
.......................................
I LOVE Neruda for the simplicity of his renderings and the mundane, down-to-earth voice that speaks as clearly and simply as never before.
“And it was at that age…Poetry arrived
In search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where
It came from, from winter or a river.” ---- Poetry, from Isla Negra
Neruda’s words are simple, vivid, clear and there is no hidden aesthetics, it’s pure language for language’s sake.
“Then up the ladder of the earth I climbed
Through the barbed jungle’s thickets
Until I reached you Macchu Picchu” ---- The Heights of Macchu Picchu
He is very candid and there is no hypocrisy when he says “I loved her and sometimes she loved me too.” His love is not platonic and he is not worried about it.
.......................................
SANTIAGO Calatrava is perhaps the most revered architect in the world. I wish to see his masterpieces personally, and I don’t know when that will happen.
.......................................
I REVERE Santana for one or two of his musical pieces. Though I am not a great fan of rock music, I do love new age world music, semi-classical Indian and fusion. Those who have a little bit of taste of Indian music classes, must have known how rigorous Indian music is unlike its Western counterpart. For, we have a tradition of rich and varied music which is centuries old. I remember, my music teacher used to beat students with a wooden-ruler if any of them failed to perform or did not do the homework.
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