Museum of Parallel Art

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Poetry. In Robert Wynne's second full length collection, MUSEUM OF PARALLEL ART, the narrator, acting as a museum docent, brings to life the context and thematic elements of famous paintings. Each painting, Wassily Kandinsky's Campbell's Soup can, Pablo Picasso's Still Life with Weeping Woman, and Jackson Pollack's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus among others, inspires a deeply intuitive and realistic interpretation by Wynne. "The project's concept is ingenious but the poetry's even better: clean, subtle, authoritative, and inspired. It could be a textbook on ekphrastic art"-Jack Myers. The author of six chapbooks and founder of Cider Press Review, Robert Wynne earned his BA and MA in ...
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Overview


Poetry. In Robert Wynne's second full length collection, MUSEUM OF PARALLEL ART, the narrator, acting as a museum docent, brings to life the context and thematic elements of famous paintings. Each painting, Wassily Kandinsky's Campbell's Soup can, Pablo Picasso's Still Life with Weeping Woman, and Jackson Pollack's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus among others, inspires a deeply intuitive and realistic interpretation by Wynne. "The project's concept is ingenious but the poetry's even better: clean, subtle, authoritative, and inspired. It could be a textbook on ekphrastic art"-Jack Myers. The author of six chapbooks and founder of Cider Press Review, Robert Wynne earned his BA and MA in English-Creative Writing from California State University Northridge. He also writes essays, teaches, reviews books, and speaks at workshops across Texas where he currently resides.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781893670273
  • Publisher: Tebot Bach
  • Publication date: 3/1/2008
  • Pages: 59
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.80 (h) x 0.30 (d)

Meet the Author


Robert Wynne holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. He is a two-time winner of the Academy of American Poets College Award and the Poetry Super Highway online poetry contest, as well as the recipient of The Poetry Society of Texas' Eakin Book Award, the Masters Poetry Prize and the Grasslands Review Editor's Prize. He is the author of 2 full-length collections of poetry: Remembering How to Sleep (2007, Eakin Press), and Museum of Parallel Art (2008, Tebot Bach). His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines throughout North America. His work has also appeared in anthologies published by The University of Iowa, and Black Moss Press. He lives in Burleson, TX with his wife, their daughter and three rambunctious dogs.

Table of Contents

Art Appreciation 1

Currier & Ives' The Scream 2

Anne Geddes' Guernica 3

Theodor Geisel's Madonna & Child 4

Kindergarten Gothic 6

Goliath 7

Fernando Botero's Blue Boy 8

Rene Magritte's Still Life 9

Norman Rockwell's Saturn Devouring One Of His Children 10

Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Dogs Playing Poker 12

William Wegman's Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife 14

Paul Delvaux's The Rehearsal 15

Ansel Adams' Three Musicians 16

Piet Mondrian's Starry Night 17

Nude Descending a Staircase 18

Wassily Kandinsky's Campbell's Soup Can 20

Andy Warhol's Haystacks 22

Jean-Michel Basquiat's Marilyn 23

Pablo Picasso's Still Life with Weeping Woman 24

Vincent Van Gogh's Mona Lisa 25

Pablo Picasso's Portrait of His Mother: Arrangement in Blue and Gold, No. 1 26

Giuseppe Arcimboldo's George Washington 27

The Ceiling of The Sistine Chapel 28

Jackson Pollack's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 38

Yves Klein's A Bigger Splash 39

Roy Lichtenstein's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte 40

Michelangelo's Venus de Milo - Restored 42

Georgia O'Keeffe's Irises 43

Walt Disney's The Last Judgment 44

Edward Hopper's Nighthawks at The Last Supper 50

Dan Flavin's The Kiss 51

Marc Chagall's Velvet Elvis 52

Christo's Piss Christ 53

Thomas Kinkade's The Crucifixion 54

Claude Monet's Persistence of Memory 55

Claes Oldenburg's Soft Thinker 56

Self-Portrait: Salvador Dali with Water Lilies 58

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