#modernistwriters

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Someone Loves Somebody! Our art work, silk screen print from the “2BI Lesya” series, was presented within the Community Culture Bus at Kyiv Art Week. You can order the prints here on Redbubble or write us directly.

The project concept: Lesya Ukrainka was one of Ukraine's best-known poets and writers and the foremost woman writer in Ukrainian literature. She also was a political, civil, and feminist activist and the first bisexual Ukrainian star. Intimate correspondence of Lesia Ukrainka and Olga Kobylyanska is the pearl of the world lesbian lyrics. Lovers created their own symbolic language based on the traditions of modernism of the early 20th century. "Someone loves somebody", that's what Lesya wrote Olha in every letter, and else "Someone only make passes very, very gently and have nothing to say..." Design based on the art-project "2-BI Lesya" by Krolikowski Art (released 1.11.15 on Lesya Art Residence, Lesya Ukrainka Theatre, Lviv Ukraine)

[nudeartpluspoetry]

"Leaving a Task Undone," by Fernando Pessoa

from the author of the magnificent Book of Disquiet

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Gertrude Stein “In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.” - Gertrude Stein, Modernist Writer. On her deathbed Gertrude Stein enquired of her life partner, Alice B. Toklas: “What is the question?” Before answering her own with the retort, “if there is no question then there is no answer”. The final words fit the fearsome woman: she was a prolific modernist writer and a fixture within the Parisian avant-garde scene, challenging literary and artistic perceptions alike. Born in Pennsylvania in 1874 she moved to Paris in 1903 with her brother Leo where she remained for the rest of her life. They were both prolific collectors and so Gertrude and Leo amassed an unrivalled collection, including pieces by Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne and Henri Manguin. This was to become of vital importance to Stein’s literary enterprise too. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #words #pictures #neon #urchin #americaninparis #writer #modernistwriter #wordportraits #repetition #prose #threelives #literaryexpression #thesteinsalon #alicebtoklas #gertrudestein https://www.instagram.com/p/CHNGtRYlIMQ/?igshid=ihq1o1518v43

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Gertrude Stein “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” - Gertrude Stein, Modernist Writer. Gertrude Stein is revered for her experiments with literary form. She employed techniques such as stream of consciousness, word ‘portraits’ and repetition to such an extent that her publisher for ‘Three Lives’ believed english to be her second language. Surrounded by Impressionist and post-Impressionist artworks, such techniques became infused within her prose, in particular the aforementioned ‘Three Lives’ which was divided in three short stories – influenced by Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso. Her central position to the ‘Modernist’ movement was concentrated from the home she shared with Leo at 27 rue de Fleurus, which was dubbed “The Stein Salon”. Here she hosted gatherings with the likes of Picasso, Matisse, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson – though only on Saturdays, for unannounced visits “began to be a nuisance”. Now, over 70 years after her death, Stein’s reflections on the essence of literary expression continue to captivate today. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #words #pictures #neon #urchin #americaninparis #writer #modernistwriter #wordportraits #repetition #prose #threelives #literaryexpression #thesteinsalon #alicebtoklas #gertrudestein https://www.instagram.com/p/CHNGo39lmju/?igshid=1gxer1fko0v1x

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Gertrude Stein “Whenever you get there, there is no there there.” - Gertrude Stein, Modernist Writer. From the time she moved to France in 1903 until her death in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1946, American writer Gertrude Stein was a central figure in the Parisian art world. An advocate of the avant-garde Stein helped shape an artistic movement that demanded a novel form of expression and a conscious break with the past. The Paris salon at 27 rue de Fleurus that she shared with Alice B. Toklas, her lifelong companion and secretary, became a gathering place for the “new moderns” as the talented young artists supporting this movement came to be called. Among those whose careers she helped launch were painters Henri Matisse, Juan Gris and Pablo Picasso. What these creators achieved in the visual arts, Stein attempted in her writing. A bold experimenter and self-proclaimed genius, she rejected the linear, time-oriented writing characteristic of the 19th century for a spatial, process-oriented, specifically 20th-century literature. The results were dense poems and fictions, often devoid of plot or dialogue, which yielded memorable phrases (“Rose is a rose is a rose”) but were not commercially successful books. In fact, her only bestseller ‘The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas’ a memoir of Stein’s life written in the person of Toklas, was a standard narrative, conventionally composed. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #words #pictures #neon #urchin #americaninparis #writer #modernistwriter #wordportraits #repetition #prose #threelives #literaryexpression #thesteinsalon #alicebtoklas #gertrudestein https://www.instagram.com/p/CHNGkhiFnBs/?igshid=13aiw6uh2c4aa