Tag Archives: art
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Peeking wo/man
Leave a commentApril 25, 2013 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)
Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my …
Continue readingCategory: The Picture Goers | Tags: 61, art, drawing, love, man, peeking, Shakespeare, sonnet, woman
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A Small Boy
8March 14, 2013 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)
A couple of days ago the book “The novels of Henry James” by Edward Wagenknecht arrived at my door. My …
Continue readingCategory: Guest Post, Podcast, The Picture Goers | Tags: art, audio, bathtub, brain, Edward Wagenknecht, Henry James, Painting, prose, Sargent, small boy
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The Imagination of Matter
Leave a commentOctober 30, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)
All art is competition: to begin with there is the artist competing with her art’s own inner image. She imagined …
Continue readingCategory: Goings-on, Stories, The Picture Goers | Tags: art, Bachelard, berlin, books, Carlye Birkenkrahe, creativity, exhibition, HWR Berlin, imagination, library, paintings, Picture
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RAISING THE WIND
3June 16, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)
For the fantastic Bloomsday project, “Ulysses Meets Twitter 2011“, organised by Stephen Cole, every one of a “brave cast” of …
Continue readingCategory: Metafiction, The Picture Goers | Tags: 16 June 2011, 20th century, @11ysses, aeolus, art, Baltimore, Bloomsday, focus, joyce, novel, Ulysses, wind
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Secret Brush Strokes
5May 21, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)
A lyrical commentary on the day of rapture using (mostly) medieval art (from the top: Bosch, Dürer, Unknown, Goya, Hiroshige, …
Continue readingCategory: Published, Stories, The Picture Goers | Tags: art, Bauer, Bosch, combustion, Dürer, explosion, free, Goya, Hiroshige, judgement, literature, medieval, poetry, rapture, twitter, Wouwerman













