The Wild Beasts.

The wild beasts.




1905 a new wave exploded

Derain, Matisse, Vlaminck led.

The Wild Beasts they were called

Les Fauves the French bawled.




Reeking of rebellion anarchy,

night mare, hoax, insanity.

So the critics ranted on

at the Salon d'Automne.





Not wholly favourable then

all, in the lions den.

Pictorial aberrations, bad jokes

here is what they saw folks.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joGZ7IT6ayo

Religion and tax.

Religion and tax.




Religion this ancient police force

no longer a tour de force.

The EU has banned creationism

European theocracies isolationism.




The days of heaven and hell are gone

but Popes and Bishops still dwell on.

Coventry Cathedral eight pounds in,

Westminster Cathedral holy chagrin.




I wonder what Jesus would say

about this capitalistic display.

Isn't it time they paid some tax

a few frocked ones got the axe.




Twenty six Bishops in The Lords

what for these awards?

Many pensioners are taxed

their working days relapsed.




British Governments be fair

don't just sit and stare.

Cuts and gather tax

for centuries you've been lax.







http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwU8QeW4ofU

Lou Reed

Lou Reed.
1942- 2013.
--
His place of birth New York City,
musically, avant-garde hippie.
Proto punk a tag that fits,
underground, few major hits.

Jewish of bisexual genre
a lifelong contra.
Musician, singer, songwriter
photographer, producer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYEC4TZsy-Y

Jack Vettriano

Jack Vettriano
--
Nineteen fifty one year of birth
very much down to earth.
Breazy seaside town Methil, Fife
a miners cottage, poverty rife.

Delivering papers, milk,
customers often bilk.
Windows cleaned potatoes picked
his father quite stricked.

Half the money his father took
not much for Jacks bank book.
Watercolours a girlfriend brought
painting, Jack self taught.

Jack copying Monet's poppy field
artistic talent revealed.
Portfolio rejected at art university
a little more adversity.

At the Royal Scottish Academy
two paintings sold with alacrity.
This Scottish talent on his way
his paintings somewhat risqué.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyr4CPWa_4Q

Sir Peter Markham Scott

1909-1989.
--
I'd have to say his father failed
Admundson of Norway hailed.
His final twelve years of life
ending paying the ultimate price.
Peter Scott was only two
losing a father he never knew.
A sound education he began
conservation his game plan.
Olympic yachtsman in his prime
skipper, the Americas cup one-time.
A painter of some repute,
the DSC for valour absolute.
The founding chairman of WWF
with Rockefeller, hold your breath.
A successful television program
a great communications man.
Wildlife and Wetlands trust
Slimbridge in Gloucester a must.
A rounded and full life
relatively free of strife.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpEAuZzZZx8

Sophia Gengembre Anderson

.
1823-1903.
--
French born British artist
loosely associated pre-raphaelitist.
It wouldn’t be loose if left to me
one of the best in this genre.
Revolution in France in forty eight
Louis Phillippe would abdicate.
Sophia’s family leaving France
in Ohio America taking their chance.
In America she marries a British man
a lifelong marriage began.  
Steady work in portraiture
then both began a zig zag tour.
London, New York, London, Capri
Cornwall England finally.
They both died in the same year
for artists and friends many a tear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCxmBbpM0kU

Jean Antoine Watteau

The sun King on the throne
ultimately ruling alone.
Extravagant splendour prevailed
a transformed Palace of Versailles.
Later Watteau was born
on one October morn.
The sun King tiring now
playing the sacred cow.
His formal Baroque style
Watteau began to refile.
To stiff and upper crust
loosen it up he must.
So Watteau created rococo
revitalised the status quo.
Jocular florid and graceful
theatrical, witty and playful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIGJjTyOGR8

Jacek Yurka

Lets look at Polish art
Jacek Yerka for a start.
Both parents qualified
nothing artistic disqualified.
As a child he didn't run wild
indoors with pencil paper beguiled.
He didn't like playing outdoors
show off's, bullies, bores.
At the academy of fine art
a rather troubled start.
Not eschewing to detailed realism
preferring imaginative surrealism
Favouring Bosch, Bruegal and Eyck
realists could get on their bike.
World fantasy award best artist
a modern day adventurist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrMKY3EFJOQ

William Holman Hunt

William Holman Hunt.

-

London brings another talent

though at first not apparent.

Hunts father a warehouse man

a clerk, hunts career began.





A trier he believed in work

he didn't avoid or shirk.

Several menial jobs at first

but art his real thirst.





Earning extra with portraiture

with fellow artists good rapport

He makes the R and A at last

and there the die is cast .





They form the Pre-Raphaelites

artistic reality with moral heights.

Throughout his life he stays the same

art verity and fidelity his aim.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7GsK8wRjLM

J.A. Grimshaw

Born in Leeds this talented man
eighteen thirty six his life began.
No formal lessons in art
with still life's a start.
Little is known of his private life
a cousin he took for his wife.
Experiments with a loose technique
classical paintings good critique.
Moonlight, lamplight, his real game
chiaroscuro, shadows and fame.
A little underrated to this day
a favourite of mine he'll stay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsj0nTL_kPs

The silent ones

The silent ones.

Past silent Bishops in the Lords

men went to war drawing swords,

They trespassed on foreign soil

plunder, rob, strip, despoil.

The same today, silent still

When Blair's Government urged to kill.

Military men, land, sea, and air

Blair arrogant, arbitrary, doctrinaire.

Still Iraq in a mess

sectarian divisive distress.

At least Saddam was secular

independent and irregular.

What do silent Bishops do

just pray and join the wages queue?

Cuts indeed and quick about

lets have the frocked ones out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NktsxucDvNI

Winter

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Winters the resting season, but slowed down energy goes on, plenty is alive and ticking, including the Bramblings song. Leaf mold goes on, twigs, branches, strewn around, hark the Robins song, the Hedgehog sleeps sound. The ground froze with winters chill, trees struggle for water, dehydration avoided with fall, first the Chestnut stripped bare. The Oak defiant hanging on, in the warmth of the litter bed, invertibrates practice decay, fungal threads returning chemical energy. Adaption, change, going on, bare trees host the Squirrels drey, Squirrels home, most of the day, in dead logs insects play. At night a cold haunting moon, bright, then gloom, chilly, no pity, dawn then, a Squirrel leaves it's drey, Along a branch and back for warmth. Snow starts to fall, a blustery wind calls, tiny icicles glisten, cold, still, a Blackbird pecks the ground flutters away, so starts another winters day. jobee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIG35GzbhJg http://www.whosdatedwho.com/tpx_6220/va ... px_1232991

A great man has died

General Vo Nguyen Giap

General Giap.
Who defeated the French at Dien Bien phu
and forced a political defeat on combined
forces in the Vietnam War
In fairness to the combined forces [largely American]
they won every major land battle that was fought
in the Vietnam War including the Tet Offensive.
They were indeed military victorious but lost the
political initative.
--------------------
General Giap is over100 years old and doing just fine.
A small village in North Vietnam,
Is where the Great Generals life began,
In village huts with muck packed floors,
The French commanded, made the laws.
An Xa village was quite unknown,
For hundreds of years rice was grown,
Goats, animals, moved around,
Muck, dung covered the ground.
But young Giap wasn't the same,
Inside his head was an excellent brain,
He didn't like the French in command,
It wasn't their culture it wasn't their land.
Off to Hoa to school he went,
On intellectual progress he was bent,
At just 13 his nationalist mind,
Was causing trouble a mature kind.
This precocious child the French noticed,
The Surete added him to their list,
Not knowing then he would bid them adieu,
At the battle of Dien Bien Phu.
A degree in economics he would attain,
His countries freedom his earnest aim,
Military tactics he studied with zeal,
The intelligence to master, turn for real.
At Dien Bien Phu he made his name,
A place in government he did attain,
With Directive 15, the North made its claim,
Unification was their ultimate aim.
So General Giap was placed in command,
The mandate, to unite and free his land,
Political adventure the stuff of dreams,
Only unification, by military means.

All through the sixties the battle raged.
To setpiece battle the North rarely engaged,
A guerilla campaign Giap wanted and got,
Time was irrelevant in his little plot.
But time was important on the American scene,
American dead on the TV screen,
After Tet they knew it was lost,
Giap had won at enormous cost,
Vietnam is free as ever its been,
Whether its better remains to be seen,
The best laid plans of mice and men,
They did put humpty together again.
jobee
The great man has died
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dionne warwick

Dionne Warwick





Dionne lets find a cave

let me be your slave.

I'll hunt rabbits everyday

plant seeds, cut hay.





Winter time we'll be warm

even in that snow storm.

I'll work hard with skins and things

warmth, isolation, all it brings.





Just one song everyday

through winter until may

then Its rest for you my dear

your everything I want to hear.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN5CDdwY1UU

Caravan

Caravan

Starting as The Wild Flowers

with unusual musical powers.

A sort of psychedelic fairy land

John Peels favourite band.





Pye Hastings leads the group

guitarist-vocalist of the troupe.

Creators of the Canterbury scene,

live, Ive never seen.





Failing the charts with 'Caravan'

the search for fame began.

With 'The Land of Grey and Pink'

they found the missing link.





Great success on the European scene

Germans, French, very keen.

Still going strong today

giving an impressive array.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G61UV0U0APc



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7zcOlnEoR

Richard Ashcroft

Richard Ashcroft





Close to Wigan pier

begins his first year.

Football his first choice

then found his singing voice.





Forms a group called Verve

begins his singing oeuvre.

Playing psychedelic music

it seemed to do the trick.





His Urban Hymns a success

making great progress.

The Drugs Don't Work

defining this young Turk.





Singer-songwriter musician

a man with great ambition.

As a singles solo artist

receives a platinum disc.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToQ0n3itoII