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HUMOUR, SIMPLICITY, INSPIRATION three Angel Cards Dad picked at random from my web site and now each angel seems to speak: Humour pricks knowledge when it soars too high. Simplicity sweeps clean the cobwebs in our life. Inspiration gives skill that polish which is art. Now we search the museums for these images. Humour— at the Art Institute of Chicago, we find Miro's Kerosene Lamp— this quirky whimsy cartoon-like bazaar— a giant strawberry, a spiraling snake, wildcat with long whiskers, snails, flags, pennants, framed portrait of Dali, a giant hand, a spiked mace, and flames rising. Simplicity— ah! Brancusi's Bird in Space at New York's MOMA— no beak, no feet, no wings, just its essence— a sleek polished bronze soars to the skies, a golden feather's homage to the One, an incandescent curve carving space, this swoosh of evanescence. Inspiration— Van Gogh's Starry Night pulls us inward— Saint-Rémy, south of France, quiet village at night under a churning sky, swirling clouds in violet haze, the cypress ablaze soaring to Venus, the morning star, then to Aries, the constellation of his birth. Miro's humour, Brancusi's simplicity, Van Gogh's inspiration— three paintings rising upward— a kerosene pipe's flame, a bird's flight, a cypress's ascent to the stars— each touching our heart and from that simple point this cosmos is born in joy and the stars laugh, swirl, and dance. Peter Y. Chou Mountain View, Nov. 9, 2000 |
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