Dean Kostos brings together Abstract Expressionism and the beauty of the male form.
—
The Antique Cast
after Arshile Gorky
Stone is flesh again, the young man
reclining. Because he has no
face, viewers’ eyes return
to the headshaped urn, its fauvist palette:
mauve, helioturquoise, madder lake deep.
Ignore color theory, ignore narrative arcs,
& crumbling surfaces
of carnage. Flesh & muscle dissolve
into threnody, bleed into patterns, liquefy
into paint so thin it stains
stains. Ectoplasm rises from his torso’s side
like the ghost of Prometheus’ liver. Absence
ossifies into form, defines
what is, will be
recalled as the past lounges on a plinth
of charred history books.
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Photo by rocor /Flickr; Painting Enigmatic Combat (1936), Arshile Gorky
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