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Location: Texas | From, “The Man with the Blue Guitar”
They said, "You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are."
The man replied, "Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar."
Wallace Stevens
I thought some of you would find this interesting. Or, at least for those who have blue guitars. Also, I wanted to try and link photos and web sites to a post. So if the links don’t work, I just screwed up. Poet Wallace Stevens was inspired by Pablo Picasso’s “The Old Guitarist” to write “The Man with the Blue Guitar.” You can read the entire thirty-two sections at this link, if it works.
The Man with the Blue Guitar
Also, there is a quote at the Engines of our Ingenuity , episode 1559.
This is a great forum. I have learned a lot here in the last few weeks, and have enjoyed the posts, pictures and archives.
My Custom Legend is at KMC for a rebuild. I will post some pictures when I get it back in a couple months.
Cheers,
Dan
1981 Custom Legend, Sunburst
Art Institute, Chicago
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Location: Flahdaw | Why is the guitar in the painting brown?
(am I being too literal?) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Why isn't your guitar dark bark? Welcome, Dan. |
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Location: Tennessee | Hi Dan. Thanks for bringing this perspective to us.
I can hear Dylan singing the whole blue guitar poem.
The other link was very interesting ... and the premise that music (and I think he was really saying instruments) is the oldest technology is profound.
But there was also another quote in the article that struck me:
Music helps us understand the human lot. Music is as functional as any worthwhile technology. Its function is to put reality in terms that make sense, and that means dramatizing what we see -- transmuting it into something more than is obvious.
Stevens's blue guitar -- music, or any art -- does change reality. It turns the human dilemma around until we see it in perspective. Sometimes it takes us through grief and pain to do that. It disturbs us at the same time it comforts us. But it serves an absolutely fundamental human need. Sort of explains and puts in context a lot of the weirdness going on around these parts lately.
The human dilemma. Reality. Drama. Disturbing. Grief. Pain. Comfort. Something more than is obvious. Making music a fundamental human need.
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | NAWWWW... Y'all are making this alot more deeper than need be.
Blue guitars just sound better!!! :cool: |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | the appreciation of Music is what makes us human. It connects us with our corporeal and spiritual sides. Scientists say that prior to 50K years ago mankind did not have art as we know it, but after we did. Prior to then there were anatomically identical humans but their brains weren't like ours. After then, they started to make art like we know it, started to make musical instruments. It would be at that point you could say that mankind got its soul. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by an4340:
the appreciation of Music is what makes us human. Then my cat is human.
She loves to lay in the case and watch close while I play. Though she'd still rather watch TV. |
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Location: Tuscany, Italy | Intresting Picasso of the blue period. Thanks
Does anybody knows who is the face (woman?) "painted" or drawn under the blue paint ?
When was it discovered ?
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | The painting is also notable for the ghostly presence of a mysterious image painted underneath. It is very likely that Picasso originally started painting a portrait of a woman, who appears to possibly be seated, and in an upset or worried mood. Not much of this image is visible except for her face and legs. Wikipedia |
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