George Grosz and other artists

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George Grosz

"enerals, military bigwigs, pu#ups, poofs, their fancy sherries, these men arebutcus, they are saugages, lightly grilled, pink, fat, pig men, you can almosttaste the sweetness that they love, and they are repulsive, the same wayhogs ! a good ready to be killed hog ! is repulsive. to live in society ruled bygenerals$ not something i have felt. but easy to understand. the orange sunhas a dollar sign in it. the sun is to be anne%ed to capital and to the making of money. [the eclipse of the sun, &()* rich golden parkette +oors, they looklike gold bullion. the face of a woman or a child is beneath a grail a prisoniron, weak and feeble and in awe and fear and full of a gentleness that seemsalmost disgusting it is so weak. veryone is monsterous in "rosz. -eople are



all swinish gross pigs or feeble worthless rabbits. verything is being traded,consumed, bartered. igars and red wine and fat bald foreheads. veryone isold, like an old pig, wrinkled and trying to steal love from people. "roszhimself had hair. e must have hated bald men. ... e must have been full ofhate and despiar. e seems like he would have been a 0audelaire. 1 manwretched with vapors of sin, who nonetheless sees their beauty. ... even the

beauty of the nazis ... he recognized in the fascists a type of beauty that wasuni2ue and new and truly awesome to behold ... -erverted things ....-erverted beauty ... perverted +esh ... not contorted, not destabled, justperverted ... a morally unchanging world ... where the good are good butfeeble and weak and can no change and the evil, with their power, are unableto change from being sick and dangerous and pederastic in all ways ... ....undeniably cute ... the way cariacture always is ... those perverted pudgysmiling millionares, you enjoy how content and fat they are ... .... the colors inhis works are so warm, you want to give yourself up to vice, to get loadedand see the streetlamps akilter and peak up the skirts of whores... the scenescould be great animated lms ... they seem lightly drawn, able to startmoving, only in one position... men named von 3natterly, and mustaches that

cocaine men seek to bring close to the small and askew tits of mousy whoreswho hope for more but also hope for nothing. ... they just want to be seen asbeautiful ... sometimes at a party, you drink so much, you realize that half thepeople there are skeletons ... and the colors$ his paintings in their colourstake part in the sickly sweet warmth of hedonism and despair, wheneverything is into%icated and seems very acute and clear ... one is morefocused and acute and vivid in despair, the world is then more truly colouredand full of force and clarity...sure you might want to die, or you might feel asense of blackness dancing in your soul, but when you see the world, andwhen you feel the world, it is full of intensity to the brim$ you can barely sitstill. you cannot sit still. you are pacing. you are crying. you are laughing likea insane man. ... [[other people paint the times of sin, the worst of society,

but they judge it, they step back from it, they portray it more sobmerly, anddo not get themsleves carried away by it. ... its wrong to see grosz as judgingthe nazis... or capitalists or anyone ... he was merely seeing life the way it feltto them ... rich ...his paintings are those blurry photos that party girls take outside adn insidenightclubs ... sweaty ... horny ... heaving ... 1ll party girls, all nightclubpeople, all people looking to have a good crazy night and get fucked andfuck$ 1h fuck$ are apocolyptic people ... and a city, or an era that lives likethat, that desires that, is an apocoytpic era .... vertiginous times in ourlives ... in history ... in places ... they are apocolticpic and full of color ...."rosz is like candy, likehow doing bad sesual things is like candy, evil issweet, and fun. it will hurt in the long term, yes, of course, but the act itself,so sweet. and i feel grosz as a man is sweet. he wasnt evil. but he enjoyedbeing able to paint and e%press the sweetness of evil. he enjoyed otherthings in painting too4 a sense of giddiness, a dizziness, a surreal or dada2uality of nonesense 55nonesense being 617 too much sense4 see hispainting of 8emember 9ncle 1ugust, the 9nhappy :nventor. 1 victim ofsociety



is father must have been rough, and perhaps brutal4 in his autobiography"rosz mentions that he scared him and his sister <arta by showing themdancing skeletons in the garden.

<y =rawings e%pressed my despair, hate and disillusionment, : drewdrunkards; puking men; men with clenched sts cursing at the moon. . . . :

drew a man, face lled with fright, washing blood from his hands. . . : drewlonely little men +eeing madly through empty streets. : drew a cross!sectionof tenement house4 through one window could be seen a man attacking hiswife; through another, two people making love; from a third hung a suicidewith body covered by swarming +ies. : drew soldiers without noses; warcripples with crustacean!like steel arms; two medical soldiers putting aviolent infantryman into a strait!jacket made of a horse blanket. . . : drew askeleton dressed as a recruit being e%amined for military duty. : also wrotepoetry. !"rosz

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Leonora Carrington

>o think is always to follow the witch?s +ight !!=eleuze

can a cabinent be a man@ human faces on everything. of course the cabinentman has a long beard. a crocodile / other lizard, reptile, gecko, standing in acanoe, or a di#erent type of boat, a gondola, under the glow of orange starsand comets in the sea at night, using a sta# to propell the boat along the 2uit

waters ... :nside a man's chest is a long series of hallways...darkhallways...with rounded arches....old wooden +oors... 1 room with a carpetmade of grass but the real kind of grass, the kind of grass that has weeds and+owers and other things in it, that is not all one heigh or colour... 1 womanwho is a giant and birds +ew around her, barefoot she stands gently on thelandscape, the elds and meadows are soft on her feet...

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Paul Klee

olour and geometry...and beings$ 0eing itself is4 colours, and geometries,and hopes$ 1 face with the A innite sign made by the eyes, the eyes askew abit and with deep sunset red suns in them. >hat inte sign is on everyonesface. 1nd a face can look like a sun!faded wall, a face can be patchy andimpasso like a wall can be. 1 wall can be a co2uettish face. Bur necks ares2uares actually. 1nd we wear other little s2uares inside the bigger s2uare of



our necks. Bur faces are round like suns. ... Corest witches4 imagine -aul Dleeas a witch, a forest witch, with brown ngers, and huge purple breasts, andeyes that have been open so long they are %ed and have unfolded his faceinto a piece of packaging ... ... -aul Dlee, how easy it is to see him in anairoplain, s2uinting, or -aul Dlee as an airoplane, sputtering, a cartoonairplane is -aul Dlee, lost over a town, he's a baby airplane or a young

teenage one a naive one, a whimsical airplane, he is an airplane, the cubistswere all airplanes too, 5some were helicopters, and often this airplane mi%edup the plains, the planes, the sun and the plains on the same plane, showingthe tension or the rythem between them, the sun is a circle, and the landsapeis a series of rectangles, thats just the way it is for the most part, its so dumb,that circle just caresses rectantgles all day, di#erent coloured rectangles,[[and we also learn that -aul Dlee, being uropean, had to contend with thee%istence, on the horizon, of castles** until the night, which -aul Dlee knewwas still a time of circlular things intersecting with rectangling things, but healso knew that then we turn our attention to strange things ! res ! things nocircles or s2uares but shifting juking shapes, the pure beatuy of a red re in ablue black landscape with a full moon 5re at full moon4 he sat there and this

was for him the simplest way to speak of that beauty... ... -aul Dlee placesare places we always knew e%isted, and have visited many times, but havenever seen pictures of, or rarely do we see these places pictured...Clagged-avilion4 a building built for the night, all buildings at night are special anddi#erent, and E19- ED saw that trees and are buildings and the moon is abuilding and a building is a moon and a tree, and +ags are res and hats andmouths and little reptiles... ...-aul Dlee4 a man who isnt afraid of being a child,of seeing a town as it sort of really is, that is, made up of blocks, and he takesapart a town and rearranges the blocks a bit to honour the moon, and thetown has a red bridge, which is a real special part of the town, and maybethat red bridge actually goes not across the river but one side leads intosomeones house or into the air or the moon or one side is blocked o#, or

maybe all the blocks of the town are +oating in the air, and some of the townhas become rockets and have been repurposed to go to the sky,

....09> -aul, the sun isnt a circle, or a sphere$ >he sun is a spike. >he sun isa ...... Bh, the moon is high, when the moon is high, we are in a garden....

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