tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post7632048430479901..comments2023-12-27T22:26:20.552-05:00Comments on synch-ro-ni-zing: Cézanne: Love the ApplesRuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-50057384899332425332010-10-06T12:22:07.174-04:002010-10-06T12:22:07.174-04:00I could have gone to Cézanne's studio in Aix-e...I could have gone to Cézanne's studio in Aix-en-Provence but time didn't allow. I just had to be satisfied with Van Gogh's sites. Yes, it was Gauguin whom VG threw a glass at and later the knife-weilding incident, all took place outside the Cafe Terrace. (Picture and painting in my VG post)<br /><br />What you have here is so rich Ruth that I'll have to come back to reread and savour more. I love C's still life's. I did have a chance when in Avignon to see one of his painting, but not included here in your post. It's "Nature morte au pot de gres", still life of stonewares and fruits. I too love C's apples. Your very first one posted here shows the essence of what art is all about I feel. Beautiful and 'simple' renderings of everyday objects.Artihttp://rippleeffects.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-60724291293883087902010-10-05T10:16:47.460-04:002010-10-05T10:16:47.460-04:00Cezanne was my dads favourite impressionist. I lov...Cezanne was my dads favourite impressionist. I love the impressionists, and often visited the National Galleries in London. I did a few Van Gogh reproductions and needed to see the 'Sunflowers' up close daily, in order to get the colours and depth right. Those were the days.Babs-beetlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10309239308633895951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-83613090059182043202010-10-05T01:09:10.692-04:002010-10-05T01:09:10.692-04:00I adore each and every one of Cezanne's apple ...I adore each and every one of Cezanne's apple paintings on exhibit here...and the point you make of how he loved them...this must be true of Monet and his lilypads and haystacks too...so many ways to see one thing...So many ways to read a poem...one poem...I love that quote by Marie Howe...I am savoring it....<br /><br />Your posts always inspire me Ruth...I need that:)GailOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09556665956317683667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-69200449015392810142010-10-04T16:51:45.676-04:002010-10-04T16:51:45.676-04:00this intimidates a little if I'm being honest....this intimidates a little if I'm being honest.<br />very low on the learning curve of some of this stuff.<br /><br />however... I know what I am drawn to ..<br />and it wasn't the economics and political science that I chose to study way back when. <br /><br />connecting, being in love ,<br />looking within. <br /><br />those paintings truly leave one breathless . <br />as have Rilke's words that I've read so far. <br /><br />I think having my breath taken away is a good thing. <br /><br />like visiting here...<br /><br />and your comment to me btw re my photo... I completely get you. I think :).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15924061349390319473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-27644583428507095512010-10-04T13:46:21.267-04:002010-10-04T13:46:21.267-04:00Adore Cezanne. I often think that photography ope...Adore Cezanne. I often think that photography opened the door for these painters. An exact likeness to a loved one was important prior to cameras - but that sometimes led to stiff, non-feeling copies - not expressive and heartfelt artwork. Not to mention, if they were poor, they painted what was readily available - food ... & naked women?Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00007201357693227614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-92042975541191290842010-10-04T12:15:31.745-04:002010-10-04T12:15:31.745-04:00Well, with that astounding color and energy, I can...Well, with that astounding color and energy, I can certainly see why Rilke "loved the apples" and Cezanne did, too.<br /><br />I fear my poetry is never very good -- though on occasion it's a "hit." But that's OK, having no pretensions when you simply like to do it for you. And yes, loving what you write (or paint, or create) is the key to doing something others will love -- or at least appreciate -- too.Jeaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17482528482559445943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-1408788635868225542010-10-04T05:48:08.775-04:002010-10-04T05:48:08.775-04:00I never said one word to Vagabonde about anything,...I never said one word to Vagabonde about anything, Ruth, I promise. :D I think she picked up the idea of you speaking French fron...YOU?! I don't speak French either, but you certainly speak more than I do, and Astrid more than both of us put together. However, with so many French speakers at my H&S blog, I am learning to read it a lot. That's exciting for me...kinda like how I can read Dutch. :)<br /><br />Anyway, all those apples! I think he treated them like those who paint their nude models. He WAS in love with them. It's so clear.Ginnie Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014434422568561157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-74290735607988460952010-10-04T04:50:29.219-04:002010-10-04T04:50:29.219-04:00Dear DS. I'm not surprised at all that Rilke h...Dear <b>DS</b>. I'm not surprised at all that Rilke has been important to you, as he has been for me, because you ooze the kind of sensibility that draws me in that drew me to him. Innocence is a perfect word, one I don't know that I would have thought of though, but I get a feeling from him the he looked at things fresh every day, apart from society's rankings of importance. I wonder if he felt, in Paris, what I feel there, which is an <i>intense</i> openness, almost involuntary. I've had experiences in my few days in Paris that seem to condense all the mystical moments into short periods of time.<br /><br />I was telling Inge the other day that when I recognize one of my many imperfections, I can imagine its archetypal opposite, and focus on it. I don't know if that's a Jungian concept, or James Hillman, or who, but maybe so.<br /><br />Thank you for coming back, my dear friend.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-71654574863851067482010-10-03T23:06:12.054-04:002010-10-03T23:06:12.054-04:00Back I am, no facaetiousness this time. Rilke beca...Back I am, no facaetiousness this time. Rilke became very important to me at one point in my life. Over and over, those exquisite often enigmatic poems, the books you have written about here...he is, as Lorenzo says, very much like Rumi, isn't he? in his openness, his "innocence" his longing to embrace the stars (or angels). He did most definitely take into himself what he wrote about Cezanne.<br />And I love C's imperfect apples. That's what it's all about, isn't it?dshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07616750784052488695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-60876007364707398002010-10-03T21:09:02.611-04:002010-10-03T21:09:02.611-04:00Thank you, Gwen. Funny, that's just how I felt...Thank you, <b>Gwen</b>. Funny, that's just how I felt in your studio today. Hugs to you, John and Max.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-35755532874697477482010-10-03T21:08:09.448-04:002010-10-03T21:08:09.448-04:00Hello, Cait, you are most welcome. I can imagine y...Hello, <b>Cait</b>, you are most welcome. I can imagine you taking Rilke out to your Welsh hills with Finn. I very much enjoy reading published letters and have been reading Anaïs Nin's for a while.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-23806765802235232952010-10-03T18:46:09.271-04:002010-10-03T18:46:09.271-04:00oh Ruth, this is all so lovely.. I'm staying h...oh Ruth, this is all so lovely.. I'm staying here a while.Gwen Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13410235558740636534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-5379724936819045532010-10-03T17:16:01.452-04:002010-10-03T17:16:01.452-04:00A big thank you for this post as you have put such...A big thank you for this post as you have put such a lot of effort into it. I have the Rilke Letters book in my library (where I work) and love the book. I like the words about poems too in the Writer's mag. And Cezanne - a genius of a painter.Cait O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04569760764766505179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-73896319317167356632010-10-03T13:06:10.079-04:002010-10-03T13:06:10.079-04:00Or is it only connect. Yes, I think so, without go...Or is it <i>only connect</i>. Yes, I think so, without googling it. Which is another kind of connecting, to which I am addicted.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-21076057082408617532010-10-03T13:03:34.921-04:002010-10-03T13:03:34.921-04:00George, you came back, as I hoped you would. I hop...<b>George</b>, you came back, as I hoped you would. I hope your trip was fine. It feels like a great honor that you would like to listen and observe silently in this space today.<br /><br />But I'm glad you also had something to say.<br /><br />First, what you say about great craftsmanship is precisely how I feel about my son's guitar playing. He trained himself to play technically like Joe Satriani and others. For years we watched his fingers learn those dances. But it's been the past 5 or so years that I have witnessed him <i>becoming</i> the music. He is music. Music is him. I firmly believe that when a person embodies a passion like that, any training or skill informs it and supports it, of course. But without the love and infusion, it is sadly empty.<br /><br />For a long time I was concerned with being published. It's hard to turn off that voice, especially when people ask with good intentions: Have you been published? They mean, kindly, that they admire your work. But it assumes that there is a goal beyond the writing itself, beyond that one poem.<br /><br />And then, I wonder. Is there anything more important than just connecting? As E.M.Forster says: Just connect.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-59623729308295825152010-10-03T11:03:01.459-04:002010-10-03T11:03:01.459-04:00Having you, Rilke, and Cezanne in the same room, a...Having you, Rilke, and Cezanne in the same room, a room that is full of Cezanne paintings, is an absolute delight, so much so that I am more inclined to listen and observe than to talk. I do want to comment, however, on your observation that "love is attention" and your question about whether writers and artists are too preoccupied with production, recognition, and accomplishment.<br /><br />In my view, great craftsmanship can be accomplished with training, skill, and technique. Art, however, comes from a different place. Training, skill, and technique may be involved, but art requires love and the fearless expression of that love. <br /><br />I also believe, as you say, that love requires attention. All too often, however, something that begins as love ends up in the service of the ego. The three things you mention — production, recognition, and accomplishment — may serve our ego, but they can inhibit the creation of art if they diminish the energy and attention that is required for the fearless expression of what one loves.<br /><br />Thanks for this lovely, informative, and thought-provoking post.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-24183671185100759832010-10-03T06:54:56.565-04:002010-10-03T06:54:56.565-04:00Gwei Mui, I can feel the excitement building for y...<b>Gwei Mui</b>, I can feel the excitement building for your production/performance. It is thrilling that you are creating such a personal expression for audiences to begin to understand your story, and that of others, as an Asian-Brit and adoptee. That this post helped you along that journey just fills me up.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-67312572551159879252010-10-03T06:50:45.686-04:002010-10-03T06:50:45.686-04:00Lorenzo, thank you for making that connection betw...<b>Lorenzo</b>, thank you for making that connection between the recent Rumi posts and this one. It's funny how I hadn't consciously made that link, but those Rumi lines have been powerfully working in me, so no doubt the dovetail is no accident. WCW, your NJ poet, was one of those early influences for me, one of the very earliest in fact. So Rilke's "thing poems" definitely call to me in the same way. I have hunted online for any kind of clue about Rilke's object/thing poems, and I am not finding anything. I'll keep searching, at my university library too.<br /><br />I'm glad you found the additional podcasts. I'm going to try to get through all of them here at sync eventually. When I'm in the groove, I can record two or three in a sitting. In fact they seem to flow better after I've been reading for a while. Thank you for "paying attention" to those readings.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-80135145016129744982010-10-03T04:40:28.074-04:002010-10-03T04:40:28.074-04:00Ruth what an inspiring post. As I edge may way tow...Ruth what an inspiring post. As I edge may way towards the edge and inpreparation for takng that jump into rehersals your post was perfect, I grew up with Cézanne copies mounte don the walls of our drawing room and was facinated by them as child. Seeng the paintngs for real happened much, much later in life. I know next to nothing about Rilke but I will be headng to Foyles once I receove my first wage packet. Once agan thanks so much for this post :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08915236568015079389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-38590658620003098982010-10-03T03:31:25.408-04:002010-10-03T03:31:25.408-04:00Rilke discussing Cezanne, what could be better? Hi...Rilke discussing Cezanne, what could be better? His thoughts and yours on the relationship between love and attention in how and what we perceive, and then depict or describe, are so rich. They seem to dovetail so nicely with your recent postings on Rumi Days, on the relationship between looking and what we are looking for. I also hear in this the echo of William Carlos Williams when he said "no ideas but in things".<br /><br />By the way, I just discovered that you are recording podcasts of more of your poems. I greatly enjoyed hearing the first one, The Air Down Here, and am now happily going through (or are they going through me?) the others you have added since.Lorenzo — Alchemist's Pillowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07522265816460154722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-10652814638291544812010-10-03T00:40:25.424-04:002010-10-03T00:40:25.424-04:00Dear Shari, well thank you for those sentiments, m...Dear <b>Shari</b>, well thank you for those sentiments, my friend. <br /><br />I wish I could cite where each of these paintings is housed. The paul-cezanne.org site does not list them. It would have taken more work than I had time for to locate each one. I wonder if you have any close by you in Florida. He painted apples so prolifically, they must grow in museum orchards around the world.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-23722609683012126452010-10-03T00:35:29.506-04:002010-10-03T00:35:29.506-04:00Hello, DS! What were you tempted to do, I wonder? ...Hello, <b>DS</b>! What were you tempted to do, I wonder? :)<br /><br />Oh, I love <i>Harriet the Spy</i> ever since rauf told me about it. But I have only seen it once, and I don't remember that part! She is such a treasure, and I can totally see her doing that.<br /><br />Thank you, I'm so glad this post meant something to you, that would bring you back again and again.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-3934448993521952542010-10-03T00:29:05.454-04:002010-10-03T00:29:05.454-04:00Terresa, I think I've heard you talk about Mr....<b>Terresa</b>, I think I've heard you talk about Mr. Harris before, unless you had another extraordinary teacher who changed your life. The miracle of that gift, and your recognition of it/him, is reaching even to me all these years later, and to all who know you, I think. Thank you.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-678598428068950732010-10-03T00:21:31.748-04:002010-10-03T00:21:31.748-04:00Hi, and welcome, Dan. That Bonnie is a sweetheart,...Hi, and welcome, <b>Dan</b>. That Bonnie is a sweetheart, and I'm so pleased you found your way over from her place.<br /><br />Yes, I'm sure you're right that there might be more to love than merely attention. I think of the statement especially when I want to bring my will into loving someone, or something I should take better care of. It may not come with the <i>feelings</i> of love always. It's making love a choice, and then usually the feelings of gratitude and good will come. So I think we agree.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-31438795420763007602010-10-02T20:28:36.591-04:002010-10-02T20:28:36.591-04:00Sometimes your posts literally leave me speechless...Sometimes your posts literally leave me speechless. I know this is one I will return to again. Of course I am familiar with Cézanne though I have never seen one of his paintings in person. All I can say at the moment is I really LOVE those apples. Really.Shari Sundaynoreply@blogger.com