Vincent

[Steven]

Hi,

There's a world of musical and visual art here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM.

[Cate]

That was truly lovely - thank you for posting it Steven.

[Kush]

very nice Steven ! Enjoyed the slide show of paintings as much as the song separately plus they renewed the enjoyment of the song itself.

[Kush]

Another song plus visual art to go along with Vincent

The Painter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAZyNDpZpQI

[Steven]

Hi Kush,

The Anka song / van Gogh assemblage is remarkable. Thank you for the link.

[B4real]

Thanks Steven and Kush,

Both those links were most enjoyable! Two of my major loves - art and music and wonderfully combined.

Bev

[Squidgy]

Here is one of my favorite poems by Robert Fagels:



"The Starry Night"

Long as I paint

I feel myself

less mad

the brush in my hand

a lightning rod to madness


But never ground that madness

execute it ride the lightning up

from these benighted streets and steeple up

with the cypress look its black is burning green


I am that I am it cries

it lifts me up the nightfall up

the cloudrack coiling like a dragon's flanks

a third of the stars in heaven wheeling in its wake

wheels in wheels around the moon that cradles round the sun


and if I can only trail these whirling eternal stars

with one sweep of the brush like Michael's sword if I can

cut the life out of the beast - safeguard the mother and the son

all heaven will hymn in conflagration blazing down

the night the mountain ranges down

the claustrophobic valleys of the mad


Madness

is what I have instead of heaven

God deliver me - help me now deliver

all this frenzy back into your hands

our brushstrokes burning clearer into dawn.

[Steven]

Hi Squidgy,

Never saw that poem before. Artists of extreme genius of expression often pay a price for extraordinary states
that produce great art. They can and not infrequently do get burned by their own fire. an instance of
which the poem seems to be describing. I like the poem a lot.