Post #60

A Prayer / Read the names of great painters — to plant your feet back on this Earth and to tether the spirit, molested by low information. Thus: Boldini; and look at their eyes, at their hands so dissolved in the air. Study Sisley, alone in a winterscape, sodden with snow. Stormy Gainsborough, run from those looks, you unwary of heart. Take a rest by the side of a haystack and think of Millet. Semiradsky, his sun playing leopard in shadow of trees. Follow Hopper, alone in a city or outside of town. Shudder: Harris, alone in the ice of improbable shades. Marc and Macke who failed to survive through the war. Twilight Vrubel who looked to the Other side, searching for more. And the greedy Grechetto who valued his brilliant blue. (It's a pity their digital copies won't give you a clue.) @verse by MR === This one is a bit heavy on references, so I'm including a ChatGPTanalysis. In this brave new world of 2023, that article took about 30 minutes to craft — sometimes rephrasing the request, sometimes deleting a sentence here and there to make things more compact; the only thing the AI couldn't handle well was choosing the particular examples, I ended up adding them myself to save time. If you're not yet bothered by AIs, here's why you could be: