Fleur de Malley: Notes for the Anatomy of Modern Art

26 November 2005
Van Gogh's ear + sunflowers (lots 43 + 44)

                          the mo of Salvador Dali or Mona Lisa

                                    a whole raft of Medusas

Francis Bacon's raw hams;    popes as orang-outangs

viz de Chirico's dummies;    200 Andy's soup cans

                   & assembly-line Marilyns    (acidic on acrylic?)

                     David Hockney's cheeks in cool L.A. chic

the urinary tract of Marcel Duchamp        (in trad. of Pissarro?)

Bridget Riley's ops:  intestines & colons    (semi-optic=semiotics?]

            Henry Moore's navel manoeuvres    (or caves of armpits!)

an Eiffel of Delaunay  //  Voyeurisme:  French verb ?´lorgner', to make eyes at

                                        feet of Klee

balls by Picasso ?± is this a clich?à?; this is a clich?à; a clich?à', this is ?± so cut!

                                       balls by Braque

      bulls cum bike saddles by Picasso    (Pablo = bull artist?)

                      spermatozoa from Miro      (cut that out?!)

                                     decoupages & gouaches of Matisse

Dali's clocks runny as organic Gaudi  (Surrealism runs rampant on Ramblas!)

Monet's haystacks, lilies, caths like molten ice cream    (Rouen in ruins)

            Munch's Madonnas/Liliths, sickrooms ?± i scream!

                           Mont Ste Victoire, apples/peaches of Cezanne

       bathers (viz Seurat, Picasso et al), bouteilles de vin (viz almost anyone)

masks:    African bush ranging to Ned Kelly's armour ?± Nolanscape = Pollock

    Meret Oppenheimer's Dinner in Fur    (art as meal ticket)

                        cypresses ?± mere trees pre-Vincent

Toulouse-Lautrec's follies @ Moulin Rouge, clay pipe, absinthe

                             Magritte's fey pipe

                is not a pipe but a pigment of the imagination

N.B. trompe l'oeil = EYE ?± CON

Fleur du Malley, scion of a hapless aristocratic ?àmigr?à family from the Mallais who exchanged the Jacobin Terror for the Australian Terra, squatted in the backwoods of the Victorian frontier. Inspired by the local treescape, she australianised her name. Then under the tutelage of her showman beau, M. de Laire, Fleur flourished in the bush, to soon become the enfant terrible of Australo-French Letters.

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