Art and poetry

                                               

                          Van Eyck: The Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John

  El Greco: The Crucifixion

 

       

Mantegna: Women at the crucifixion

 

 

Both, like plasticine, can be so malleable or, at the other end of the scale, so nuanced.  Small suggestions take you somewhere else: a new direction, a new discovery. So much is so possible from the same root. A new colour, turn of a limb may bring a new, altogether different image, as the magnetic words on the fridge quite randomly scatter into unexpected meanings, fresh ideas.  


 

Bacon: Three |Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion

 

 

      Three Monsters. 
 

Here are three monsters:

Agony, a greyhound skinned; howl.

Hollowness, a hen plucked;  peck.

Dementia, a bundle of hay;  scratch.
 

 

I have stood them on furniture

to pose.
 

They were in the entrails of spirit,

I picked them out with a forceps.

I thought they looked remarkable in the light.

I thought the viewing public

might want to scrape at them

with their spatulas.