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Saturday, 14 January 2012

Street Dancing !


For today’s Poetics, I invite you to consider the visual art of Fernando Botero as an inspiration for your word-painting.
While searching the internet about this painter I came across this mural which is situated in Medellin Colombia as I have an Interest in Street Art I thought this fitting for my choice !

Street Dancing 

Placed in Fernandos town of birth 
A  reproduction of one of his painting full of mirth 
A couple larger than life 
Presumably a man and his wife 
Dancing with gay abandonment 
Overfed or very affluent, 
In today.s society 
This would surely be an impropriety, 
The couple would be stick thin, 
Airbrushed out all double chins, 
But would the world me amiss 
If as a painting this, we chose to dismiss, 
We'd miss out on the colour and  gaiety 
 The beauty of such immense booty!


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13 comments:

  1. Brian Miller14 January 2012 at 22:06

    yeah, they would certainly spin it differently in our world today...but is that only denying reality and excluding the majority...very cool you found a pic of that building...

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  2. Claudia14 January 2012 at 22:14

    nice...love me some street tango.. and we certainly would miss out on the colour and gaiety...loved that he beat his art to a different drum

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  3. Scarlet14 January 2012 at 22:28

    I want to dance with gay abandonment. Your ending lines say it all:

    "We'd miss out on the colour and gaiety
    The beauty of such immense booty!"

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  4. Daydreamertoo14 January 2012 at 22:31

    Certainly painted in larger than life details, didn't he?
    Lovely.

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  5. Laurie Kolp14 January 2012 at 22:33

    I like that you compared the painting to the brushed-thin images seen today.

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  6. Mary14 January 2012 at 23:06

    Kez, how neat that you used a version of the same painting I used. You are right, the couple definitely seems happy, though overfed. LOL.

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  7. Unknown14 January 2012 at 23:08

    The asymmetry of life and art makes this an acute statement of what we should not forget.

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  8. Anonymous14 January 2012 at 23:10

    i disagree. today this is accepted in society. very much so.

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  9. Christine14 January 2012 at 23:50

    yes society accepts it, but not on a billboard, or in a magazine, I can even airbrush my muffin top out on picnik if I want

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  10. Maude Lynn15 January 2012 at 04:10

    Fun write!

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  11. Dave King15 January 2012 at 11:54

    Great read, great entertainment.

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  12. Anonymous15 January 2012 at 22:22

    Ha ha, cute use of "booty." :)

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  13. booguloo17 January 2012 at 13:24

    Pictured reality is art devoured.

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