Tag Archives: William Blake

fly in the soup of innocence

Henri Rousseau was fortunate enough to receive from established painters whom he admired the good advice to avoid formal training even when he was in a position to take advantage of it. Emulating himself, Rousseau developed a style of great … Continue reading

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dream on: brisky business

When we look at a dream, it can become our own, and our own interpretation of it can become a legitimate one… Like so many artists of extreme individuality, William Blake must be accepted without question or completely rejected. His … Continue reading

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copernicus: earth as the lord’s moving footstool

The continuing saga of Copernicus and displacing the earth from the center of the universe. Of, course man was displaced as well, now an orbiting refugee and the light moral relativism found its way through the cracks in the foundation… … Continue reading

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fanon: accidental revolutionary

Frantz Fanon. The prophet scorned. Fifty years after his death, the audience still listens.Vintage violence… …At this point, Fanon could go no further, because, although he had discarded the white mask in his book,in his life he still wore it. … Continue reading

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Promise them anything

…but give them a propadeutic scenario…. Bird’s guts, crystal balls, the stars in the heavens, tea leaves- individuals have resorted to all of these and more in an effort to foretel the future. Today, the seer’s tools are charts, statistics, … Continue reading

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twisting and shouting: father of singing poetry

A lot of shouting. Vachel Lindsay was certainly no Longfellow, no Whittier. What was the fellow trying to prove anyway? Lindsay could have told them. He thought of himself as an artistic originator whose “New Poetry” would, in short order, … Continue reading

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trial by hurry: trying to nail the truth

The trial of Jesus. Was Christ condemned to death by the Jews, as tradition has held for so long, or was he really executed by the Romans as a political offender? By a strange irony of history, the surest thing … Continue reading

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agitated realms beyond melancholy

The long arc of hereticism. Modernism and baggage of hereticism it bring with it, the deep sack of neuroses festering sometimes into the outbreaks of pathology and brilliance often equally and simultaneously, is today, a sort  of anguished repudiation; reactions … Continue reading

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one day there time will surely come

Nothing like a little heresy to reinflate the sagging body of the church. The heresy of twenty plus centuries, as infinite as private choice , is hardly random, but keeps to certain well-defined channels. Past the multitudinous polysyllabic channels to … Continue reading

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into the heartland of heresy: religion as a private matter

Heresies. Recurrent ideas which break through the continually sealed crust of orthodoxy because they contain an important truth or an irrepressible human aspiration. And they don’t seem limited to one religion. In fact, monotheism seems to reinforce their appearances… The … Continue reading

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