Saturday, 11 June 2011

Abstraction in Art

Abstraction in art= the
the the the the the the
Meaning sentences may mince
Discard certain forms, nawhaddahmean?
Something to hold onto please?
A Rothko Red or landscaped corner of a greyed-over Richter.
Is this the art of giving up on beauty, dissecting truth?
As if all that could be known of a gazelle could be
plumbed with a scalpel--no story no face no
soul modernity what was I going to say? Anyway...
The shock sells. The dot on a paper a circus of shapes and
forms appeals to snobbery, All articles in different fonts (poem in poem)
a an
a
an
a an
a
an
a
an
a
an
a
an

No tapestries or four-syllable meanings.

Hey look! ¿"Art."? Van Gogh is a lion-tamer swamp-
tangler, a soul--All art is abstraction yes but this in front of me
is the work of the chainsaw man who decapitates Redwoods, counts rings,
keeps data and the
heart stops keeping beat.

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