Soutine - Mullin, Rick

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Résumé :
One of the advantages poetry has in telling a story is its cinematographic quality-its reliance on imagery and a creative interpretation of events. Meetings and dialogue included in Soutine are created on the basis of biographical sources such as those listed below. While I have accorded myself a great deal of what might be called, in the best sense, poetic license, few scenes are entirely imagined, and these tend to take place in bedrooms. The book is finally my depiction of the artist's experience as I interpret and intuit it from his work and from the small spread of biographical sketches available in English, from letters, and from photographs. In essence, I present my experience of Soutine.I hope the reader of Soutine will also have a book of his paintings at hand as a reference. The Taschen catalogue raisonn?, with essays by Maurice Tuchman, Esti Dunow, and Klaus Perls, is the most comprehensive. Rick Mullin, October 31, 2011Here the mystery of the greatest painting shines forth, flesh more like flesh than flesh itself, nerves more like nerves than nerves, even if they are painted with streams of rubies, with sulfur on fire, droplets of turquoise, emerald lakes crushed with sapphires, streaks of purple and pearl, a palpitation of silver that quivers and shines, a wondrous flame that wrings matter to its depths after having smelted all the jewels of its mines.-Elie FaureThis painter of genius came from a society in which there was not simply no background of painting but a positive hostility to painting, so that painting for him was not just a luxury but a forbidden fruit.-David Sylvester...

Biographie:
Rick Mullin is a journalist and painter whose book-length poem Soutine, on the painter Cha?m Soutine, was published by Dos Madres Press in 2012. His poetry collection Coelacanth was published by Dos Madres in 2013. He is the author of the book-length poem Huncke, published by Seven Towers, Dublin, Ireland, in 2010, and two chapbooks, Aquinas Flinched (Modern Metrics/Exot Books, New York, NY, 2008) and The Stones Jones Canzones (Finishing Line Press, Georgetown, KY, 2012). He works as a business editor at Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society. His paintings are in collections in the U.S., Europe, and the British Virgin Islands....

Sommaire:
One of the advantages poetry has in telling a story is its cinematographic quality-its reliance on imagery and a creative interpretation of events. Meetings and dialogue included in Soutine are created on the basis of biographical sources such as those listed below. While I have accorded myself a great deal of what might be called, in the best sense, poetic license, few scenes are entirely imagined, and these tend to take place in bedrooms. The book is finally my depiction of the artist's experience as I interpret and intuit it from his work and from the small spread of biographical sketches available in English, from letters, and from photographs. In essence, I present my experience of Soutine.I hope the reader of Soutine will also have a book of his paintings at hand as a reference. The Taschen catalogue raisonn?, with essays by Maurice Tuchman, Esti Dunow, and Klaus Perls, is the most comprehensive. Rick Mullin, October 31, 2011Here the mystery of the greatest painting shines forth, flesh more like flesh than flesh itself, nerves more like nerves than nerves, even if they are painted with streams of rubies, with sulfur on fire, droplets of turquoise, emerald lakes crushed with sapphires, streaks of purple and pearl, a palpitation of silver that quivers and shines, a wondrous flame that wrings matter to its depths after having smelted all the jewels of its mines.-Elie FaureThis painter of genius came from a society in which there was not simply no background of painting but a positive hostility to painting, so that painting for him was not just a luxury but a forbidden fruit.-David Sylvester...