Poets on Art

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Burial of Count Orgaz, 1586

EL GRECO, ( 1541- 1614), born in Crete, Greece.

Church of San Tomé, Toledo, Spain.

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EL GRECO´S BURIAL OF COUNT ORGAZ

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Yesterday took a white and ivory black

------rose madder, yellow ocher

------safron

------cinnabar

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Hands of Domingo Theotocopouli

-----this morning on the wall

-----of San Tomé

-----eyes of him

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Color clothed below, unclothed above

-----if seeing were believing

-----hands

-----eyes

for Richard O'Connell

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Eliott Coleman (1908-1980)

American

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Elliott Coleman, Broken Death, Baltimore, 1977, Linden Press

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Friday, January 04, 2008