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When I model, I like to put as much of me as I can into the artist-model relationship – so I like to put talking and/or singing as part of the mix.
While this may not be appropriate in a studio situation, it can be
useful, with the instructor’s permission, in a classroom. I like to
use, especially, one or more of three short poems if I can find a way to
fit them. All three of these poems work especially well for models who
are opening themselves to artists, because all three are joyful
prayers. First and shortest is a poem my grandfather, Joyce Kilmer it is called “Easter”. The air is like a butterfly with pale, blue wings; The happy earth looks at the sky, and sings. The second is a sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins. God’s Grandeur The world is charged with the grandeur of God It will flame out, like shining from shook foil, It gather’s to a greatness like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not wreck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: The soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last light off the black west went, Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs – Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings. Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1877 Other Hopkins poems are wonderful for this too. |
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Here are a couple of internet resources for Gerard Manley Hopkins.
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/284
http://www.bartleby.com/122/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Manley_Hopkins
very nice, I wish more artists were as respectful as you. too often we are just still lifes with a heartbeat, mannequins that can position ourselves automatically.
thank you