Blake believed in the bounding line in drawing and painting thus he
despised or seemed to despise Rembrandt, what does that play out for I ,
who have neither strong feelings either way? For me ,the boundary line doesn't define painting but defines the painter, when I was taught painting at Sussex lines and lines were marked yet none thought less of the Dutchman for his disappearing into shadows painting . I think Rembrandt was probably the first modern painter, in the sense, that he was a already hedging into the 20th century sensibility as was the later Michelangelo and Vermeer neither later nor befror
but already there
Deleuze was saying chaos (and catastrophe) opened up for certain 19 c painters in the time of Turner and
I misheard him and thought he claimed all painting was confronted by this 'catastrophe'' I was
rong rong and Fouist are often wrong yet on to somersetting something every perception
hints are at a feel or file and field in any case Blake
would not have liked Surrealists paintings
but I suspect he d have liked Picasso
Who Blake said Vicky? liking Picasso? Omy goD!
Yes I said she didnt' like Picasso
I did right off all those definite lines
and relieved to be wrong as I cannot imagine Deleuze making a stupid generalization
la betise as Tzara
said in 1918
Blake will claim me I am living in the Beulah lands his misprision of other artists are mind benders
opening new gates of perception
he was great enough and original in himself as that to do so
how many originals in the world anyhow<? Plato thought there were perhaps
300 ? the rest were copies and simulacra of them
Plato's loom was a gloom my father fought to overthrow Homer's chariot
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even finding your phone was a gesture of love
your hand reaching hesitating a lover's glance and room
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