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    Octavio Paz - For The Painter Swaminathan

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    Maan Barua
    This document is a poem describing the creative process of painting with a rag and knife against a blank canvas. It mentions using various colors like cobalt blue, burnt amber, greens from the sea, and indigo to paint springs, serpentine undulations, triangles, and other symbols until a fully dressed canvas emerges from the enigma of the creative work. Nature, mythology, and the struggle of creation are referenced throughout the abstract poem.

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    Octavio Paz - For The Painter Swaminathan

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    This document is a poem describing the creative process of painting with a rag and knife against a blank canvas. It mentions using various colors like cobalt blue, burnt amber, greens from the sea, and indigo to paint springs, serpentine undulations, triangles, and other symbols until a fully dressed canvas emerges from the enigma of the creative work. Nature, mythology, and the struggle of creation are referenced throughout the abstract poem.

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    This document is a poem describing the creative process of painting with a rag and knife against a blank canvas. It mentions using various colors like cobalt blue, burnt amber, greens from the sea, and indigo to paint springs, serpentine undulations, triangles, and other symbols until a fully dressed canvas emerges from the enigma of the creative work. Nature, mythology, and the struggle of creation are referenced throughout the abstract poem.

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    434 views1 page

    Octavio Paz - For The Painter Swaminathan

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    Maan Barua
    This document is a poem describing the creative process of painting with a rag and knife against a blank canvas. It mentions using various colors like cobalt blue, burnt amber, greens from the sea, and indigo to paint springs, serpentine undulations, triangles, and other symbols until a fully dressed canvas emerges from the enigma of the creative work. Nature, mythology, and the struggle of creation are referenced throughout the abstract poem.

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    With a rag and a knife

    Against the ide fixe


    The bull of fear
    Against the canvas and the void
    The uprushing spring
    Blue flame of cobalt
    Burnt amber
    Greens fresh from the sea
    Minds' indigo
    With a rag and a knife
    No brushes
    With the insomnia the rage the sun
    Against the blank face of the world
    The uprushing spring
    Serpentine undulation
    The aquatic vibration of space
    The triangle the arcanum
    The drop of ink of blood of honey
    With a rag and a knife
    The uprushing spring
    Springs the Mexican red
    Turns black
    The Indian red springs
    The arrow stuck on the black altar
    The angry alphabet
    Turns black
    The lips go black
    The black of Kali
    Charcoal for your eyelids
    Woman desired every night
    The black of Kali
    The
    The
    The
    The

    yellow and its scorched beast


    ochre and its underground drums
    green body of the black jungle
    blue body of Kali
    The sex of Guadalupe

    With a rag and a knife


    Against the triangle
    The eye bursts
    Fountain of signs
    The serpentine undulation moves
    Wave upon wave of imminent apparitions
    The canvas a body
    Dressed in its own naked enigma

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