Of Palettes And Painters Poem by Sheena Blackhall

Of Palettes And Painters

Rating: 5.0


Brown madder, burnt umber, bronze, sienna
Flake white hue, flesh tint, French ultramarine
Manganese blue, cobalt violet, magenta
Davy's grey, lamp black and rich olive green

Oxide of chromium, permanent carmine
Cerulean blue, turquoise, gold, indigo
Cadmium orange, imperial purple
Titanium buff, silver, see each hue glow!

Payne's grey, maroon, zinc white, sap green and emerald
Vandyke brown, viridian, violet and pewter
Purple lake, Prussian blue, permanent rose
Jaune brilliant, crimson, raw umber and copper

Raphael, Rubens, Da Vinci, Velasquez
Vandyke, El Greco, Van Gogh, and Vermeer
Brueghel and Bosch, Munch and Dante Rossetti
Hogarth and Blake, McBey, Emin, Landseer

Salvador Dali, Magritte, Manet, Monet
Henry de Toulouse Lautrec, Chirico
Cezanne and Rembrandt, Holbein and Bellini
Rousseau and Freud, Michaelangelo

Marc Chagall, Duchamp, Durer and Fuseli
Sickert, Jean Arp, Boecklin, Braque and Picasso
Gaugin and Gericault, Goya, Kandinsky
Klee, Klimt, Matisse, Klee and Pissarro

Monday, March 25, 2019
Topic(s) of this poem: art
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
C F 25 March 2019

A poem of a catalog of colors and artists, I wish though scarlet, vermilion, and amaranth were included. Also for a moment, I was surprised to see Freud, but it was not Sigmund but Lucian, that you included. Well written!

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Kumarmani Mahakul 25 March 2019

Rich olive green has amazed mind. Artistic expression of poem is very brilliant. An interesting poem is beautifully penned.10

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