NOTES FOR THE ANATOMY OF MODERN ART
Van Gogh’s ear + sunflowers (lots 43 + 44) the mo of Salvador Dali or Mona Lisa a whole raft of Medusas Francis Bacon’s raw hams; popes as orang-outangs viz de Chirico’s dummies; & assembly-line Marilyns
200 Andy’s soup cans (acidic on acrylic?)
David Hockney’s cheeks in cool L.A. chic the urinary tract of Marcel Duchamp
(in trad. of Pissarro?)
Bridget Riley’s ops: intestines & colons Henry Moore’s navel manoeuvres
(semi-optic = semiotics?) (or caves of armpits!)
an Eiffel of Delaunay // Voyeurisme: ‘lorgner’ (Fr.), to make eyes at feet of Klee balls by Picasso – is this a cliché?; this is a cliché; a cliché, this is – cut! balls by Braque bulls cum bike saddles by Picasso spermatozoa from Miro
(Pablo = bull artist?) (cut that out?!)
decoupages & gouaches of Matisse Dali’s clocks runny as organic Gaudi (Surrealism rampant on Ramblas!) Monet’s haystacks, lilies, caths like molten ice cream
(Rouen in ruins)
Munch’s Madonnas/Liliths, sickrooms – i scream! Mont Ste Victoire, apples/peaches of Cezanne bathers (viz Seurat, Picasso et al), bouteilles de vin (viz almost anyone)
masks: African bush ranging to Ned Kelly’s armour – Nolanscape = Pollock Meret Oppenheimer’s Dinner in Fur
(art as meal ticket)
cypresses – mere trees pre-Vincent Toulouse-Lautrec’s follies @ Moulin Rouge, clay pipe, absinthe Magritte’s fey pipe is not a pipe but a pigment of the imagination N.B. trompe l’oeil = EYE – CON
Michael Small April 7-8, 1994 August 8-11, 2005 published in Cordite e-line, December, 2005
Fictitious biographical Note for Fleur du Malley for Cordite e-line magazine, no. 23: Children of Malley: Fleur du Malley, scion of a hapless aristocratic émigré family from the Mallais, who exchanged the Jacobin Terror for the Australian Terra, squatted in the backwoods of the Victorian frontier. Inspired by the local treescape, she australianised her name. Then under the tutelage of her showman beau, M.de Laire, Fleur flourished in the bush, soon to become the enfant terrible of Australo-French Letters.