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Vision and Perception

Pablo Picasso, La Lecture

Do we see with our eyes or do we see with our mind?  Does vision go hand in hand with perception?  We arrange objects according to our own aesthetic.  What’s big, what’s important, what clutches our hearts are the things we talk about, write about, dance about, paint about.  They are the motifs that drive us and we see the world through these lens .

Colors reflect moods.  Composition brings the objects of desire to the foreground.  Lines are the dance.  Art is where the ego manifests itself.  There is no apology or humility, and the ones who are brave enough to expose their psyche are the innovators and boundary breakers.  This is what I got out of seeing the Picasso collection at the de young museum yesterday.

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  1. La Lecture, a woman reading
    (A painting by Picasso)

    Marie-Therese sits
    A Madonna or a mountain
    Cloak of black and red
    Face an amethyst moon

    The Moon of her face
    Twin plums, one Moon
    Ivory parts lilac from wine
    Phase eclipsed by phase

    And then the lightfall
    Of her long yellow hair
    To one apple green breast
    And one snowy and bare

    And whose mauve hand
    Snakes around her waist
    Hers or the Spaniard’s ego
    The wrist is snared, belted

    And the lines on her lap
    Are a book and her sex
    The ubiquity of Venus
    Always Picasso’s pubic poetry

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