The Lovers’ Chronicle 21 June – need – art by Henry Ossawa Tanner & Oscar Florianus Bluemner – birth of Jean-Paul Sartre

21 June 2023 By Rhett 0 In Random

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

how say you,

will you

and we will have

and not want

take you,

by the hand,

as you are

by this dance,

we shall understand

and that soon must be

when you come,

you will see

a two-step towards

leavin’ solitude

in the rear view

glad i did

glad you are near

once again

whoa y’all
complete 180

welcome home,
she said, and it does
feel that way

sudden immersion
though necessary
to stay ahead
of desperation

rebirth
seems kinda
melodramatic
so call it
what you will
it is happenin’

there can only ever
be one need

nothin’ but an attempt
to understand
intention is not in the least
that of plungin’ into sorrow
but what has been
cannot be ignored

what one needs
is to find oneself
for that is the only
salvation

denyin’ this is to be
confined by sorrow
and to be without hope

in 1907 by Frederick Gutekunst

Today is the birthday of Henry Ossawa Tanner (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; June 21, 1859 – May 25, 1937 Paris); artist. He was the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. He moved to Paris in 1891 to study, and decided to stay there, being readily accepted in French artistic circles. His painting entitled Daniel in the Lions’ Den was accepted into the 1896 Salon. In 1899 he married Jessie Olsson, a Swedish-American opera singer. Jessie died in 1925, twelve years before her husband, and he grieved her deeply. He sold the family home in Les Charmes where they had been so happy together. They are buried next to each other in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine.

Gallery

Thomas Eakins, a Portrait of Henry O. Tanner, 1900. Oil on canvas, 24⅛” × 20¼”. The Hyde Collection.

Spinning By Firelight (1894)

Gateway, Tangier, 1912. St. Louis Art Museum.

The Arch – Brooklyn Museum

The Good Shepherd

The Banjo Lesson, 1893.

The Annunciation, 1898, Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The Tanner family at home in France. Handwritten note on verso identifies the individuals seated at the table as: Jesse Tanner, Mrs. Tanner, Barlow, Henry Ossawa Tanner.

Sodom and Gomorrha, 1920

The Seine (c. 1902), one of three paintings by African Americans on display in 2012 in the National Gallery of Art’s American Art galleries.

Tanner’s studio

Abraham’s Oak
A View of Fez
View of the Seine, looking toward Notre Dame
Coastal Landscape, France, 1919
Fishermen at Sea
The Young Sabot Maker
Mary
The Disciples See Christ Walking on the Water
Angels Appearing before the Shepherds
Jesus and Nicodemus
Daniel in the Lions’ Den
The Annunciation to the Shepherds
Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City – in the White House.
Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, 1929-30, High Museum of Art

1973 U.S. commemorative stamp honoring Tanner

Today is the birthday of Oscar Bluemner (Prenzlau; June 21, 1867 – January 12, 1938 South Braintree, Massachusetts), born Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner and after 1933 known as Oscar Florianus Bluemner; Modernist painter.

Gallery

1903 self-portrait

Evening Tones

Form and Light, Motif in West New Jersey (1914)

Old Canal Port

Illusion of a Prairie, New Jersey (Red Farm at Pochuck), 1915

And today is the birthday of Jean-Paul Sartre (Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre; Paris 21 June 1905– 15 April 1980 Paris); existentialist philosopher, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist, and critic. He had an enduring personal relationship with fellow philosopher Simone de Beauvoir.

L’existence précède et commande l’essence.
- Existence precedes and rules essence.

Je suis condamné à être libre.
- I am condemned to be free.

L’homme est une passion inutile.
- Man is a useless passion.
Ma pensée, c’est moi: voilà pourquoi je ne peux pas m’arrêter. J’existe parce que je pense … et je ne peux pas m’empêcher de penser.
Alors, c’est ça l’enfer. Je n’aurais jamais cru… vous vous rappelez: le soufre, le bûcher, le gril… ah! Quelle plaisanterie. Pas besoin de gril, l’enfer, c’est les autres.
- So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.
On meurt toujours trop tôt – ou trop tard. Et cependant la vie est là, terminée : le trait est tiré, il faut faire la somme. Tu n’es rien d’autre que ta vie.
- One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
- On est ce qu’on veut.
  - A man is what he wills himself to be.
- Eh bien, continuons…
  - Well, let’s get on with it.
À celui qui donne un baiser ou un coup
Rendez un baiser ou un coup
Mais à celui qui donne sans que vous puissiez rendre
Offrez toute la haine de votre coeur
Car vous étiez esclaves et il vous asservit
- To whomever gives a kiss or a blow
  Render a kiss or blow
  But to whomever gives when you are unable to return
  Offer all the hatred in your heart
  For you were slaves and he enslaves you

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