tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post8025236310527327466..comments2024-03-28T22:09:54.924-04:00Comments on The Closet Professor: Clair de luneJoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05299122685163501819noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-47072624574453930232021-05-26T18:17:50.940-04:002021-05-26T18:17:50.940-04:00Thanks, Roderick. That’s a cool print.Thanks, Roderick. That’s a cool print.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05299122685163501819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-21404568868603612812021-05-26T18:17:19.544-04:002021-05-26T18:17:19.544-04:00lvchaz, I have not seen the video. I just came acr...lvchaz, I have not seen the video. I just came across the picture and thought it fit the poem.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05299122685163501819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-22117002393403406152021-05-26T13:47:51.704-04:002021-05-26T13:47:51.704-04:00Have you seen the video your pic was taken from? ...Have you seen the video your pic was taken from? Beautiful!lvchazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15574647509966109814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-31297970260259593232021-05-25T13:24:42.031-04:002021-05-25T13:24:42.031-04:00Joe, look at:
https://www.heritage-print.com/paul-...Joe, look at:<br />https://www.heritage-print.com/paul-verlaine-usher-private-school-bournemouth-14918730.html#openModal<br /> RoderickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-48873301184498631252021-05-25T11:04:52.168-04:002021-05-25T11:04:52.168-04:00As a French Canadian and having a French culture, ...As a French Canadian and having a French culture, your text on Verlaine is giving nice infos on that period of the French artistic period at the edge of the 20th century. <br /><br />In fine arts it'll lead to the Impressionnist style and further in the beginning of the 20th century to abstract art with Vasily Kandinsky who was living in France. <br /><br />It was a boiling society toward modernity and new ways to express art in all ways. <br /><br />IF you want to have a glimps of this there was a 1995 movie with Leonardo DiCaprio which is just showing the lives of Verlaine and Rimbaud: Total Eclipse. <br /><br />https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114702/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1 <br /><br />Here in Montreal, in the same time we had a now famous poet, Émile Nelligan who did a new kind of poetry that was inspired by those two French poets. <br />Most of his poems were written in his 20s and years after before his death at 61yo he finished his life in a mental health hospital. <br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Nelligan JiELhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03290330475832440721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-91859971400437723182021-05-25T10:53:18.176-04:002021-05-25T10:53:18.176-04:00A spectacular post, Joe. An emotional poem by a po...A spectacular post, Joe. An emotional poem by a poet who lived an unfortunate life. Clair de Lune is one of the great melodies perfectly presented here with gorgeous paintings. I'm sorry to say, I had never heard of painter J.A. Grimshaw. Sorry, because I find his paintings magnificent. Thank you. <3Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15705603797740188813noreply@blogger.com