My sis just got back from the Tate Modern and apparently Dali wrote a poem to accompany his work The metamorphosis of Narcissis. (First I'd heard...) does anyone know this to be true? Does anyone know/can you find the poem for me?
2006-06-23 03:16:19 · 5 answers · asked by Nix 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Yes, it was a long poem intended to be read while viewing the painting... the paper at this link refers to some of the ways the poem and the painting interact.
http://www.jmu.edu/writeon/ documents/2005/martin.pdf
PS had to split the website address after writeon/ as yahoo cuts it otherwise
2006-06-23 03:27:15 · answer #1 · answered by eriverpipe 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
O f course it's true. Dali wrote a poem for each and every picture. He may not have used written language, just look at the paint work, sheer poetry in motion.
2006-06-23 04:33:04 · answer #2 · answered by Professor Paul 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Narcissus, in his immobility,
absorbed by his reflection
with the digestive slowness of carnivorous plants,
becomes invisible.
There remains of him only
the hallucinatingly white oval of his head,
his head again more tender,
his head, chrysalis of hidden biological designs,
his head held up by the tips of the water's fingers,
at the tips of the fingers
of the insensate hand,
of the terrible hand,
of the mortal hand
of his own reflection.
When that head slits
when that head splits
when that head bursts,
it will be the flower,
the new Narcissus,
Gala - my narcissus"
Salvador Dali
2006-06-23 03:26:55 · answer #3 · answered by aboukir200 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Waw
2006-06-25 09:10:58 · answer #4 · answered by search_for_freedom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no i think you just made that up to sound smart
2006-06-23 03:51:51 · answer #5 · answered by btjohnny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋