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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Roland Reiss



























Ars longa, vita brevis occasio 
praeceps 
Art is long, life is short, opportunity
 fleeting,
experimentation perilous, and judgment 
difficult.

:Ὁ βίος βραχύς,
ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή,
ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξύς,
ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερή,
ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή."


Hippocrates

Roland Reiss Poem 
on my 10th day of 
National Poetry Month 
Poem a Day


Roland Reiss at Claremont Art Museum 
celebrate a return to history ~
not a retrospective, peeks in his past. 
Color bombs cultivated to outlast. 

Miniatures in plex-cases reveal 
narratives laid out in minute detail
diorama  natural   history. 
lifelike scenes offer a view of story.

Watch a television melodrama
endings determined in the spin around
movies playing out without the three acts
from a peephole, viewers discern the facts.

The paintings also share high principles
buried brushstrokes under dirt road washboards,
glossed color medium gives such a sheen,
stinking aroma of permanent green.

Amaryllis opens on time Christmas
captures forced a 17th Century bulb
and tulips as the Dutch Masters did save
Reiss tames cadmium yellow to behave.

Disney, The Capital and winged airplanes 
humming low under Matisse colored sky.
Not wild lupine, these cultivars create
music by the Master that is first rate.

Caroline Gerardo  ©  copyrights reserved April 10, 2018

Please see his exhibition
"Unapologetic Flowers and Small Stories"

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