Painted by Jan van Eyck, 1434, oil on panel. This is one of the earliest examples of oil painting. A few thoughts, first, to get you looking and thinking. As I go through this art history analysis it is helpful to be looking back and forth at the painting. The most important thing is […]
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Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride
12
Sep 2009
Written on a bridge at Featherock, on a bridge, in November, that being the Featherock in Schulenberg, Texas. Middle Tempest I. Fog Lecture October.Thunder in dull momentsShuffling puddles around tanned grass.And when the gusts settled,There was a serious silence,Your brow contracted with a seaward knowledge. What is the question answered?What the place of moments of […]
Category: beauty, Narrative Poetry, Peter Kane Loves too much, ugly
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Jerry and Mother Teresa
23
Jul 2009
An excerpt from a letter in Come Be My Light, the Private Writings of the “Saint of Calcutta” (I highly recommend it to all): “Three days ago we picked up two people eaten alive with worms. The agony of the Cross was on their faces. How terrible poverty is, if unloved. After we made them […]
Category: beauty, love, old man, worms
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