The Friday Five - Favorite Artworks
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thefridayfive wants to know all about your highbrow tastes:
1. What is your favorite poem? Can you recite part of it from memory?
I know it by heart, having read it at both my mother's and my father's funerals.
The Resurrection of the Dead, by Yehudi Amichai
We are buried below with everything we did
with our tears and our laughs
We have made storerooms of history out of it all,
galleries of the past, and treasure houses,
buildings and walls and endless stairs of iron and marble
in the cellars of time.
We will not take anything with us.
Even plundering kings, they all left something here.
Lovers and conquerors, happy and sad,
they all left something here, a sign, a house,
like a man who seeks to return to a beloved place
and purposely forgets a book, a basket, a pair of glasses,
so that he will have an excuse to come back to the beloved place.
In the same way we leave things we here.
In the same way the dead leave us.
Translated from the Hebrew by Leon Weiseltier
2. What is your favorite work of visual art? Can you sketch some of it from memory?
The Vegetable Portraits, by Guiseppe Archimbaldo, and in particular, Vertumnus, the portrait of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, painted as the Roman god of the seasons. And sadly, I am no Neal Caffrey.
3. What is your favorite piece of music? Can you sing or hum any of it from memory? Bonus points if you can sing a line of harmony from it.
This is a hard one, since my tastes in music span many genres. Let's go with something uplifting for a Friday morning, and say Vivaldi's Gloria, RV 589. And yes, I can sing the harmonic line.
4. What is your favorite dance form? Can you dance it yourself, however badly, or is it something for which you are mostly a spectator?
Classical ballet, and my favorite is Ballanchine's choreography of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. And no, I don't dance.
5. What is your favorite work of literature? Have you committed any of it to memory?
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte. Reader, I married him." That's it.
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thefridayfive wants to know all about your highbrow tastes:1. What is your favorite poem? Can you recite part of it from memory?
I know it by heart, having read it at both my mother's and my father's funerals.
The Resurrection of the Dead, by Yehudi Amichai
We are buried below with everything we did
with our tears and our laughs
We have made storerooms of history out of it all,
galleries of the past, and treasure houses,
buildings and walls and endless stairs of iron and marble
in the cellars of time.
We will not take anything with us.
Even plundering kings, they all left something here.
Lovers and conquerors, happy and sad,
they all left something here, a sign, a house,
like a man who seeks to return to a beloved place
and purposely forgets a book, a basket, a pair of glasses,
so that he will have an excuse to come back to the beloved place.
In the same way we leave things we here.
In the same way the dead leave us.
Translated from the Hebrew by Leon Weiseltier
2. What is your favorite work of visual art? Can you sketch some of it from memory?
The Vegetable Portraits, by Guiseppe Archimbaldo, and in particular, Vertumnus, the portrait of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, painted as the Roman god of the seasons. And sadly, I am no Neal Caffrey.
3. What is your favorite piece of music? Can you sing or hum any of it from memory? Bonus points if you can sing a line of harmony from it.
This is a hard one, since my tastes in music span many genres. Let's go with something uplifting for a Friday morning, and say Vivaldi's Gloria, RV 589. And yes, I can sing the harmonic line.
4. What is your favorite dance form? Can you dance it yourself, however badly, or is it something for which you are mostly a spectator?
Classical ballet, and my favorite is Ballanchine's choreography of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. And no, I don't dance.
5. What is your favorite work of literature? Have you committed any of it to memory?
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte. Reader, I married him." That's it.
If you want to play along, here's the code for this week's entry for
thefridayfive. Post your answers on your journal and then link back to this entry.
