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TOGETHER IN OUR ENDLESS SOLITUDE ~ PAUL ELUARD

Monique — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 14:21:02 +0000

A poem by Paul Eluard

“I cannot be known
Better than you know me

Your eyes in which we sleep
We together
Have made for my man’s gleam
A better fate than for the common nights

Your eyes in which I travel
Have given to signs along the roads
A meaning alien to the earth

In your eyes who reveal to us
Our endless solitude

Are no longer what they thought themselves to be

You cannot be known
Better than I know you.”

― Paul Éluard

A French Poet

Eugène Grindel (1895-1952), known as Paul Éluard, was a French poet who was dedicated to Dadaism and Surrealism. He was a great admirer of symbolist and avant-garde poets such as Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, and Guillaume Apollinaire. The woman you see in the photo is his second wife Nusch Eluard (1906-1946) She was a French performer, model and surrealist artist.

Surrealism by Surrealists

What do we know about Surrealism? Surrealists say true reality only comes from your subconscious. It is for this reason that over time concepts and techniques were developed allowing the artists to use the subconscious mind. They wanted to be able to learn and discover the depths of their brains.

Surrealism was most popular among painters because of its immediate and clear form of expression. In comparison to other forms of art including poetry and literature, it was much harder to be expressed. Surrealists believed in a structured clearly outlined process when expressing themselves. The aesthetics were not that important.

Of course, we can also find surrealism in the film industry, a great example of a Surreal movie is The Blood of a Poet (1932) directed by Jean Cocteau

According to Octavio Paz, (1914-1998) the Mexican writer and poet, “Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision”. Paz himself was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.

Picture by Man Ray

Photograph of Nusch and Paul Eluard made by the famous photographer Man Ray(1890-1976.) American painter, maker of Surrealist objects and photographer.

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EUDORA WELTY ~ ON WRITING A NOVEL

Monique — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 19:30:21 +0000

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer’s own life.
Eudora Welty

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EVA BESNYO ~ BOY WITH CELLO

Monique — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 10:52:55 +0000

Boy with Cello – 1931
Eva Besnyö

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EVA BESNYO ~ SELF-PORTRAIT

Monique — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 10:50:02 +0000

Eva Besnyö
Self-portrait

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EVA BESNYO ~ A STEP INTO THE PAST

Monique — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 10:44:36 +0000

Nicole Dumont, Amsterdam – 1934
Eva Besnyö (Dutch-Hungarian Photographer)

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ALEXANDER RODCHENKO ~ LEVELS

Monique — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:03:31 +0000

Alexander Rodchenko
Levels
1929
Vintage print on Silver gelatin paper
Collection Museum Moscow House of Photography / Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
© A. Rodchenko – W. Stepanova Archive
© Museum Moscow House of Photography

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BRASSAI ~ FOLIES BERGERE

Monique — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:28:11 +0000

Brassai (Ghula Halasz,1899-1984)-.Juan-les-pins, Folies Bergère, 1932

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JULES BRASSAI ~ THE OTHERNESS OF THE NIGHT

Monique — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:04:08 +0000

“The Night suggests, it does not show. The Night disquiets and surprises us with its otherness. It releases forces within us which by day are dominated by reason.”
Jules Brassai

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EDWARD STEICHEN ~ THE PHOTOGRAPHER

Monique — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 13:36:15 +0000

“Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.”

Edward Steichen

“The Flatiron” 1905 by Edward Steichen
1897-1973

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THE BALLOON

Monique — Mon, 18 May 2015 10:38:56 +0000

“Hands, do what you’re bid;
Bring the balloon of the mind
That bellies and drags in the wind
Into its narrow shed.”

William Butler Yeats

Photo: The Balloon Merchant, 1931
Jules Brassai

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