Great subject, and another huge entry, I imagine, on the cards. Actually, I reckon this is a pretty good painting -- but why let strict accuracy spoil a quick first draft !
Les Grandes Baigneuses
No swell of joy within me stirs
When I behold Les Grandes Baigneuses,
Those well-fleshed ladies who expose
Nude vistas of their quelques choses.
Fulsome dolmens, horizontal,
Kneeling, crouching, slably frontal,
Rear views, side views in a group
Painted in a pallid gloop --
An object lesson to all those
Large ladies who dispense with clothes
And hope to catch a roving eye
Before their painted youth sets dry.
Yours dried a hundred years ago.
So, find your clothes, get dressed and go.
You may in youth have been real ravers;
Cézanne, though, did your looks no favours.
Last edited by Martin Parker; 09-26-2011 at 04:41 AM.
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