Showing posts with label aesthetic beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aesthetic beauty. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

tears of the sun said, Princess Haiku




This is one of the flowers that I captured in the dahlia garden in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco this year. The garden was a gift from the San Francisco Dahlia Society. Thanks to the volunteers who presented the City of San Francisco and its visitors with such a wondrous garden.

Friday, March 13, 2009

Reading beauty, said Princess Haiku on a full moon is just so....Baudelaire

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BEAUTY

by: Charles Baudelaire

AM as lovely as a dream in stone,
And this my heart where each finds death in turn,
Inspires the poet with a love as lone
As clay eternal and as taciturn.

Swan-white of heart, a sphinx no mortal knows,
My throne is in the heaven's azure deep;
I hate all movements that disturb my pose,
I smile not ever, neither do I weep.

Before my monumental attitudes,
That breathe a soul into the plastic arts,
My poets pray in austere studious moods,

For I, to fold enchantment round their hearts,
Have pools of light where beauty flames and dies,
The placid mirrors of my luminous eyes.


'Beauty' is reprinted from The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire.
Ed. James Huneker, New York: Brentano's, 1919.



French Translation

La Beauté
Je suis belle, ô mortels! comme un rêve de pierre,
Et mon sein, où chacun s'est meurtri tour à tour,
Est fait pour inspirer au poète un amour
Eternel et muet ainsi que la matière.
Je trône dans l'azur comme un sphinx incompris;
J'unis un coeur de neige à la blancheur des cygnes;
Je hais le mouvement qui déplace les lignes,
Et jamais je ne pleure et jamais je ne ris.
Les poètes, devant mes grandes attitudes,
Que j'ai l'air d'emprunter aux plus fiers monuments,
Consumeront leurs jours en d'austères études;
Car j'ai, pour fasciner ces dociles amants,
De purs miroirs qui font toutes choses plus belles:
Mes yeux, mes larges yeux aux clartés éternelles!
— Charles Baudelaire

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Princess Haiku :Tango with a ghost



Haunting music performed by the Kronos Quartet is reason enough to tango,tangle, tear the veil from the eye of the past.

Friday, November 09, 2007

a Design for Music is Art



I am certain that Music is Art would like this design and so here it is.

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

East Village Opera Company is brilliant post modern opera, says Princess Haiku


I recently saw the East Village Opera Company mentioned in one of the new blogs I am reading and had a listen at You Tube. Their music is extraordinary and brilliant; I hope that they will eventually perform in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am posting a few videos of EVOC and you have never heard anything like this.

This is what I read on East Village Opera Company's Website.

"You’ve heard opera, and you’ve heard rock—but you’ve never heard opera rocked like the East Village Opera Company. The East Village Opera Company —a powerhouse five-piece band, a string quartet, and two outstanding vocalists—brings the towering emotion and timeless musicality of opera into the 21st century on its Decca/Universal Classics debut with its inventive, hard-hitting arrangements of the music’s “greatest hits”—including “La donna è mobile” from Rigoletto, “Habanera” from Carmen, and “Nessun dorma” from Turandot — performed at full length and in the original languages.

The concept of the East Village Opera Company is totally fresh, but not unprecedented in pop. In 1985, for example, former punk-rock impresario Malcolm McLaren released Fans, an album of “hip-hopera” that brought funky beats and electronic programming to the works of Puccini and Bizet. But EVOC is a whole new thing: an integrated, eleven-strong working band dedicated to rocking the opera and electrifying the classics, as the ensemble has been doing to spectacular effect ever since its New York stage debut in the spring of 2004.
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EVOC’s Decca/Universal Classics debut was produced and recorded in April-July, 2005 by Neil Dorfsman, a three-time Grammy Award winner whose credits include international bestsellers by Sting, Dire Straits, Paul McCartney, and Bjork. The string arrangements were recorded in Prague by the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra featuring lead violinist Pauline Kim.


I am going to try to purchase one of their CD's locally and if I can't find one everyone can order one from their online store. They also sell black EVOC hoodys that are too cool.

And now if you will excuse me, said Princess Haiku putting her invisible headphones on, It's almost midnight and I am going to rock out with EVOC.







Monday, October 29, 2007

Wassily Kandinsky on Spirituality in Art



I saw a reference to this book, "Concerning the Spiritual in Art," on Julian Pegler's Blog and it's now on my to read list. Has anyone else read it? I like Julian's concept of the Creativist and his blog is always worth the visit.

A dreamy blog that vanished for a while and has now resurfaced is Cities Beneath the Sea; try this one too.

Blue Tea
and Japonisme also offer visual delights and sundry escapisms.

Friday, June 01, 2007

Everywhere I walked, luminous red poppies waved in the wind








It was an ordinary day, said Princess Haiku. I had finished my flute lesson and suddenly, this dazzling red swept me off my feet.

Friday, May 11, 2007

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema via Yakuma and YouTube

I found this wonderful video when visiting Yakuma, a gifted painter from the Netherlands. Watch this and enjoy as it is something special.