{"id":150582,"date":"2019-12-30T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=150582"},"modified":"2020-05-03T06:10:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T05:10:07","slug":"cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/12\/cost\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCost\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Subjective, intuitive, artistically scholarly, sophisticated…. Artists inhabit a world all of their own only accessible to the initiated, at times. Poets, particularly, seem to possess that especial quality of being able to transform the trivial into sublime–and vice versa. Playing with reality and irrealities as playthings. Not merely words or semantics but ideas, thoughts, perceptions, visions, consciousness. — <\/em>TMS Editor
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cI confess a total faith in art, and I know as a result what I want <\/em>
\nto express in my works, and that I shall do my best to express it,<\/em>
\nwhatever it may cost me.\u201d<\/em>
\n–Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo, 1885<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>\u201c\u2026 it\u2019s my constant hope that I am not working for myself alone.<\/em>
\nI believe in the absolute necessity of a new art of color, of design\u2014<\/em>
\nand of the artistic life.\u00a0 And if we work in that faith, it seems to me<\/em>
\nthere is a chance that we do not hope in vain.\u201d <\/em>
\n–Vincent to Theo, 1888<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>“Well, my own work, I am risking my life for it
\nand my reason has half-foundered because of it.”<\/em>
\n–Vincent to Theo, 1890<\/p>\n

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In Van Gogh’s painting of Pere Tanguy,
\nthe figure merges with the prints behind him:
\nJapanese, and helter-skeltered\u2026. Fuji
\nperches on the floating hat, while at his right,
\nthe courtesan gossips round his shoulder.<\/p>\n

The communard, Tanguy, must have liked
\nthe way he blended, un-foregrounded, yet retained
\na Cloisonnist, sharp outline: himself
\namidst the floating world. …<\/p>\n

His eyes are steady,
\nfix upon the painter, almost steady
\nthe nervous, up-ticked stroke the saint must bear
\nwith all the colors in his bloodstream teeming.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em>Dr. Gary Corseri is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment.<\/a> He <\/em>has published\/posted poems, articles, fiction and dramas at Transcend Media Service<\/a> and hundreds of publications and websites worldwide.\u00a0 He has performed his work at the Carter Presidential Library and his dramas have been produced on PBS-Atlanta.\u00a0 He edited the \u201cManifestations\u201d literary anthology.\u00a0 He has published 2 novels and 2 poetry collections, has taught in US public schools and prisons and in US and Japanese universities. <\/em>Contact: Gary_Corseri@comcast.net<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Subjective, intuitive, artistically scholarly, sophisticated…. Artists inhabit a world all of their own only accessible to the initiated, at times. Poets, particularly, seem to possess that especial quality of being able to transform the trivial into sublime–and vice versa. Playing with reality and irrealities as playthings. Not merely words or semantics but ideas, thoughts, perceptions, visions, consciousness. — TMS Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":150583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[915,1745,868,1743],"class_list":["post-150582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-art","tag-pere-tanguy","tag-poetry","tag-vincent-van-gogh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}