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April 6, 2019

Ekphrastic April 2019, Day 6: "Fashion Shop"

Today's artist belonged to the Fauvist movement. Wikipedia defines it thusly:
Fauvism is the style of les Fauves (French for "the wild beasts"), a group of early twentieth-century modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism.


"Fashion Shop" (1914) by August Macke [1887-1914].

living in the city

no bemoaning the absence
of the natural world

women and their
accoutrements all the color
that is needed


© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.

Sadly, Macke, died in France, during the early months of World War I.


A cherita is a haiku-like poem of three stanzas that tells a "story." The first stanza is one line and sets the scene. Stanza two is two lines, stanza three is three lines. A cherita terbalik is a cherita with the order of the stanzas rearranged.

3 comments:

  1. Even from so long ago, "all the color that is needed" is still true today. Good statement, Diane.

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    1. Sadly, hats used a lot of birds' feathers in the pursuit of fashion.

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  2. Catching up on my cheritas today. I love this one!

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