The Lovers’ Chronicle 8 July – to be – art by Artemisia Gentileschi & Käthe Kollwitz

08 July 2023 By Rhett 0 In Love, Poems, Quotes, Random, Songs

Dear Zazie, Hope this finds you well and happy. The weather at the ranch has been beautiful. Spent a lot of time on the porch. Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse. Visit us on twitter @cowboycoleridge. Yours, Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

i learned this; it goes on

desire, denied or delayed

everything was laid on my path

but rather than nurture

what was given,

i threw it all away

i now believe it had to happen

to get to the thoughts, the dreams

to see the vision

to show you

take my hand

that you can understand

“Why?”

to give my thoughts,
my mind, my dreams

that must come
before anything else
can be given

or to riff on Rilke,
to be with those
who know
or be alone

which suits just fine
for i have found
that i much prefer
to write about it
than live it

feelin’, oh, you know…
why denied for so long
only to find and not have

your thoughts,
your dreams,
your secrets

to be with one
who understands
or to be without

a long open road
‘neath the moonlight

the look on your face

the unforgettable
everything
of bein’ with you

Since You’ve Been Gone

I learned this; it goes on
This irresistible desire
Why was love denied to me
Beauty stood on my path
But though nurtured carefully
She walked away
And I brood in moods most foul
I wanted her thoughts, her dreams
But you cannot have
That which cannot be given
I wanted to know her secrets
But you cannot know
That which cannot be known
I wanted her to come away
And take my hand
But now I am alone
And my world is more full of weepin’
Than you can understand

Today is the birthday of Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome; July 8, 1593 – c. 1656); Baroque painter, one of the most accomplished painters in the generation following that of Caravaggio. In an era when women painters were not easily accepted by the artistic community or patrons, she was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence. She painted many pictures of strong and suffering women from myth and the Bible – victims, suicides, warriors. Her best-known work is Judith Slaying Holofernes, which “shows the decapitation of Holofernes.

Gallery

Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, 1638–9, Royal Collection

Susanna and the Elders, her first work 1610 – Schönborn Collection, Pommersfelden

Self-Portrait as a Lute Player, 1615–1617

Judith Slaying Holofernes (1614–20) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Sleeping Venus

Judith and her Maidservant (1613–14) Oil on canvas Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Mary Magdalene

Annunciation
Bathsheba
Clio: the Muse of History
David and Bathsheba
Esther before Ahasuerus
Lucretia
St Cecilia Playing a Lute
Samson und Delilah

Today is the birthday of Käthe Kollwitz (Käthe Schmidt KollwitzKönigsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) 8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945 Moritzburg, Saxony); artist, who worked with drawing, etching, lithography, woodcuts, painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of poverty, hunger, and war on the working class. Despite the realism of her early works, her art is now more closely associated with Expressionism. Kollwitz was the first woman elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts.

Gallery

Woman with Dead Child, 1903 etching

direction.

Misery, 1897. Musée d’art moderne et contemporain of Strasbourg
Bust of a Working Woman in a Blue Shawl, 1903. Brooklyn Museum
The Young Couple, 1904. Brooklyn Museum
Working Woman (with Earring), 1910. Brooklyn Museum
Praying woman, before 1918. Musée d’art moderne et contemporain of Strasbourg

Mac Tag

The song of the day is Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIdIqbv7SPo

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. – Oscar Wilde

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~ Robert Frost

Why was I made for Love and Love denied to me? – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Though nurtured like the sailing moon

In beauty’s murderous brood,

She walked awhile and blushed awhile

And on my pathway stood…

– W.B. Yeats

Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren’t having any of those. – Sylvia Plath

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I’m neurotic as hell. – Sylvia Plath

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Come away, O human child!

To the waters and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand

For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.

– W.B. Yeats

but there is, in consolation, the beauty of music. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Writing is a religious act: it is an ordering, a reforming, a relearning and reloving of people & the world as they are & as they might be. – Sylvia Plath

I think I just prefer to have sex than write about it. Umberto Eco

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