Friday, August 14, 2015

Frank Gaze Comments

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I gaze at you frankly
From within the gilded frame
Of Édouard Manet’s
Most famous painting.
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Suzanne Hayasaki
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Glen Kappy 20 April 2019

I didn’t know this about Le Dejeuner sur L’Herbe. The expression of the model makes an interesting contrast to that of Rembrandt’s model for Bathsheba as in my poem On Rembrandt’s Bathsheba. -Glen

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Suzanne Hayasaki 21 April 2019

I remember your poem, and I just recently saw a copy of Rembrandt's Bathsheba at the Otsuka Museum in Japan. Usually women are just decorations in the painting, but Manet paints real women!

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