(Henry Geldzahler, left 1982, right 1984)
Problem/solution
[Framed], hand over hands
Passed, sightlines
Inherent,
-New York apartment,
-School, show, grant, travel,
-Seated at
-Right elbow;
Continuity,
Divergence, open
Mind/matter
Pathfinder,
-Cut out drawing book
-Models to copy,
-Replicate
-Dissections;
Absolute Warhol,
Production silkscreens,
Reduction
To still lives,
-Tried paper hats, art
-School, ad. agency
-Mailroom, ice
-Cream parlor;
Rauschenberg combine,
Art/Life embedded,
Stella, sketch,
Shape, attack,
-Left, arc, centered, two
-Sets, parallel lines,
-Caran d'ache,
-Pentax, brush glued;
Segal, white figures,
Objects, encountered,
Kelly, hands
On color,
-Black on white, coffee
-Shop life, hands hold cups,
-Clothes wrapped, pinned,
-Faces speak;
Hockney, note taking
Observer, sketching
Foreign and
Domestic,
-Chainsmoking student,
-Artist's guest, sitting
-In silence
-As film made;
Academic skills,
California sights,
Included,
Excluded,
-Toes testing, talk, dives
-In, travel, lessons,
-Breaking through
-Splashed with ink;
Absorbed subverting
Spacial renderings,
Implicit
Perspectives,
-Distracted: drawings
-Gotham Gallery,
-Prints grant, nights
-Italian;
Scaling Parisian
Heights, retrospective,
Mount Fuji,
Movie flash,
-Suds relaxed painter
-Confronts canvas in
-Pissoir claimed
-Basement space;
Draw to find, pose's
Wrap turned inside out,
Slipped off, the
Lining plain,
-Drawn toward likeness, an
-Inching along crawl,
-Accretion
-Jigsaw fit;
Clemente, corpus
Out front, quotations
Subsumed, scrolls
Kept churning,
-Dark smoking jacket,
-Striped rugby shirt, eyes
-Gazing at
-Horizon;
Chia, same stand-in
Anti-hero reams,
Human scale,
In colors,
-Painter, sitter float
-Apart in two boats,
-The distance
-Increasing;
Baselitz, taking
Out content, meaning,
By painting
Upside down,
-Tradition freighted,
-Title fronted, slumped,
-Down-turned mouth,
-Plastered hair;
Baselitz, without
Talent you invent,
Basquiat,
Tag same old,
-Second cannonballs,
-Glasses transparent
-To eye's glint,
-Soul revealed;
Basquiat, mixing
Black magic markers,
Drawings, lists,
Paint, anger,
-Clouds rake light, tide rolls
-Rhythmic, salt sprayed licks
-Leaving sand
-Curlicues.
4 October 2016
