Painting is Dead
the painter Paul
Delaroche first said the words 1839
painting is
dead dead as a doornail ...I was born much later
yet i chose
painting as my profession
and already many
times painting had been declared dead
then alive then
dead alive again
yet dead or
not painting can still thrill
charm warm inform
puzzle inspire comfort
look at Van
Gogh you are dazzled out of the present moment
it has been
ignored still it won't lie down won't give up
it still
challenges offers a new way to see a new way to be
a new way to
say painting will never die
it will always
be at the least a whisper in the wind
men and
women dedicate their lives to it dream of it
covet it long for it steal it
it is not dead
today and it never will be the heart still beats
as new today as
ever a mystery full of magic
Januaray 7,
2015
Note: The prompt for the midweek motif was all about 7's. Now I am in my seventies...I have been practicing painting for over 50 years...one might think one has it in the 7th decade of his life...still some who are in their seventies are just beginning. So, I humbly offer my poem, Painting is Dead.
Note: The prompt for the midweek motif was all about 7's. Now I am in my seventies...I have been practicing painting for over 50 years...one might think one has it in the 7th decade of his life...still some who are in their seventies are just beginning. So, I humbly offer my poem, Painting is Dead.
10 comments:
I think you are right.. and so correct when even the obsolete technology is converted to paintings.. films CD,s and floppy disks... so correct.
BTW I took the freedom of correcting the link at Mr Linky..
I did the Link correction for Poets United, too. Glad I found you! My Mom, in her 90s, has created art for 7 decades. I like that link to our prompt. I feel the living thrill of Van Gogh too, and hear so many art "whispers in the wind." Thanks for posting with us.
art has a way of recreating itself...much like life...
just when we think it all has been done....someone finds a way...
Oh, I don't think painting is ever dead. Your painting is definitely alive.
http://inthecornerofmyeye.blogspot.com/2015/01/seven-ages.html
"the heart still beats as new today as yesterday....full of magic." A beautiful conclusion!
How the artist that can make the painting alive ~ I like your interpretation, making the old new, a mystery, full of magic ~
Painting like this with words is truly delight.. as it never stays the same and is always art in progress on canvas of heart!..:)
Sounds so like all the arts. Well written.
As long as there are artists painting and art will always live ;)
quite a bit of coveting, too. well penned ~
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