Sunday, May 9, 2010

TWO WOMEN RUNNING ON THE BEACH







Picasso: Two Women

Running on the Beach, 1922


Clothes are too trivial
for such breasts. such knees.
So globed with light.

The sea is blue without
restraint. Cloud-spattered
sky, an open mouth.

The blue air quickens
their gritty steps.
Bare-foot, bare-breast,

they run. Their shadows
run, make dark
cross-hatches on the sand.

Not to their lovers.
Not with the wind. They are
the wind. Hair drunk

on speed, they run
out of nothing into this
primary blue and white.

What I love is that the women
never stop. They run. Toward
us, who do not yet exist.

~ Oriana

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2 comments:

  1. I saw this painting in Seattle yesterday (November 5, 2010). The exuberance -- the ecstasy! No image on the internet can do this previously unsung (but not now) masterpiece justice. Thanks for the words!

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  2. By the way, Seated Woman was a revelation. The fore-shortened feet and hands. A wonder to behold!

    http://www.artknowledgenews.com/files2008a/Picasso_Seated_Woman.jpg

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