Penetration Into the Temple

PENETRATION

 ...into the temple...

 ....of art...

... and commerce

 The Gospel of Judas

informs us that Jesus

told him of God's plan

for his Sacrifice

and the role that Judas

had to play in it

 I'll leave it to you

to unpack that

wisdom

 If you make the scene

The Flaneur recommends:

Sylvia Fein

The Berkeley Eye

 James Ensor

Moses in the bull rushes

Mythology

of the Old Testament

 A Bay Area woman artist
painted this scene of Moses
presented to the Egyptian queen

 Erastus Salisbury Field

envisions the parting

of the Red Sea

Marsden Hartley

Temple of the imagination

 Duchamp said

it's only art for a short

time then it's art history

 These two works by Pat O'Neal

are among the only three images

in this post that would then 

qualify as works of art

Looks inviting but

no rest for the wicked

Mark Rothko

Sit here in front

of a color portal

of fathomless depth

 Bruce Conner

some deal where people

lay on photo paper

 Gordon Onslow Ford

a kind and giving gentleman

I once had the fortune to visit with

Wolfgang Paalen

of the Surrealist Movement

 Joan Brown-Rat Dog
Mascot of Rat Bastard artists

 Feral zen

like me

 Jay deFeo

my heroine who said,

Nevermind the Expressionism

she was at heart a Symbolist

Rene Magritte 

Surrealist and subversive

 Franz Kline

my favorite Abstract-Expressionist,

 Although this one wouldn't be

the one I'd select from his catalogue raisonne,

a little too business

 The world as the body

 This looked almost-black on black

a Velvet Underground LP jacket

 Ray Johnson

original gangster

mail art icon

Reginald Marsh

"Barrel of Fun"

A coney island of the mind

 (phrase by Henry Miller not LF)

 Philip Guston

here he comes...

...and there he goes

Goya 

he always brings it

 James Ensor

Symbolist oceanic nocturne

 Do they know what this 

stairwell is like...

 

 ...to the well-medicated?

Being in a Stanley Kubrick film

The fantastic elevator

I'll ride it one day

 Some patriotic

African-Americana

 Bruce Conner

I spent some time with him as well,
The head librarian in North Beach
who took a film course with Bruce
described him as
"the Norman Bates of the
 San Francisco art scene"

 The fractured clock says 

it's time to move on

 Look for a blue-green exit sign

in the monochromatic stairwell

 UC is building this monstrosity

right next door

6 October 2016