Random Noodling: Ekphrastic April, Day 29: "Two Children in Front of a Billboard for Grand Cirque"

April 29, 2018

Ekphrastic April, Day 29: "Two Children in Front of a Billboard for Grand Cirque"

"Two Children in Front of a Billboard for Grand Cirque" (circa 1930) by Marianne von Werefkin [1860-1938].

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the circus poster
seduces them again

automatically
her hand slips into her pocket
to check one more time

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Gillena CoxApril 29, 2018 at 8:59 AM
Nice cherita Diane, Thanks for dropping by my Sunday Standard today

much love...
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Linda BApril 29, 2018 at 9:23 AM
Even with little facial expression, von Werefkin has managed a wistfulness in the girls, and your cherita re-plays that. Beautiful response, Diane.
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Interesting Idea

I don’t use the term as an insult — the American idiot. I mean it in a precise way, as I try to remind people. For the Greeks, "idiot" carried a precise and special meaning. The person who was only interested in private life, private gain, private advantage. Who had no conception of a public good, common wealth, shared interest. To the Greeks, the pioneers of democracy, the creators of the demos, such a person was the most contemptible of all. Because even the Greeks seemed to understand: you can’t make a functioning democracy out of...idiots.

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April 29, 2018

Ekphrastic April, Day 29: "Two Children in Front of a Billboard for Grand Cirque"

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