Today in the art history survey course that I'm a TA for, the Professor showed this painting by Charles Demuth called The Figure Five in Gold (it's at the Met - beautiful to see in person), and he read the poem by William Carlos Williams that inspired it. It goes:
The Great Figure
Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
fire truck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city
There's a woman in the class who translates the whole lecture into sign language for a deaf student - it was so beautiful to watch her sign that poem. I love watching sign language. I always watch her and try to learn at least one word a lecture. Today I learned "vagina" because we were looking at a lot of Georgia O'Keeffes. It looks like this.
2 comments:
Sounds a little bit like Napolean Dynamite in the Happy Hands club.
thank you for this. I'm about to go to a dinner party, and now I have something to show them.
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