Some hi-brow culture

"Clair de lune" (Debussy), French for moonlight, is the third movement of Suite bergamasque by Claude Debussy, a piano depiction of a Paul Verlaine poem


Moonlight

Your soul is like a painter's landscape where
charming masks in shepherd mummeries
are playing lutes and dancing with an air
of being sad in their fantastic guise.
Even while they sing, all in a minor key,
of love triumphant and life's careless boon,
they seem in doubt of their felicity,
their song melts in the calm light of the moon,
the lovely melancholy light that sets
the little birds to dreaming in the tree
and among the statues makes the jets
of slender fountains sob with ecstasy.


(translated by C. F. MacIntyre)
--- Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)
 
Self-portraits done after taking a different drug every day (45 Photos)


Nicotine gum produces that???

How does he know that the portraits are not the result of withdrawal from the drug taken the day before?

Is there some drug that frees him from the compulsive need to paint self portraits?

The artist is self-consciously depicting his existing opinion of each drug, this is about what he thinks his art should look like under the influence of each drug.

This would only be a worthwhile exercise if the artist hadn't known which drug he had taken until after the portrait was finished. The dosage of each drug taken should have an effect, shouldn't he have taken the same drug every day for a week, upping the dosage every day and then painting a portrait?

Conclusion: Taking drugs doesn't give the result of great artwork


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