Garden at Giverny

Garden at Giverny (Take II--As)

As purplish as lavender to bottom

as brownish as green shade atop

one may get a new aesthetics

out of differences from details

As fusing seeing too near

with seeing from far too

and seeing to the left (west, south)

with seeing from the right (east, north)

As colors are that powerfully resonant

they can't be kept within the lines of shapes

and transcend an earthy classical palette

into new age of modernist individuality

As if the sun has been heliocentrically reinvented

and not only in cosmology but in painting as well.

Xanadu (Ofrimbaudfame) for Blogspot.Com (April 2018)

(Thanks to Claude Monet 1900 Le Jardin de l'artiste en Giverny in Musée d'Orsay Paris Jacques Derrida and Stevie Wonder)

Lion and Serpent

Lion  and  Serpent  (in  Black)

A  20-th-Cent.  Interpretation

Lion apparently bitten by serpent

who makes lion crawl like a cat

heightening and curving its giant back

and howl like a wolf

Showing its feline fangs

to bottom of scene

counterattacking serpent

by same open mouth

Sculpture leaves us in midst of fight

when chances may seem equal

lion putting its foot upon snake

so it can't easily escape anymore

Antoine-Louis Barye freezes Impressionist moment

into a Symbolist image retaining animal Vitalism.

Xanadu (Ofrimbaudfame) for Blogspot.Com (April 2018)

(Thanks to Antoine-Louis Barye 1833 Lion au serpent bronze 

copper alloy in Louvre Paris)