GLORY IN THE FLOWER WORDSWORTH MOVIE
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This entry was posted in Exhibitions, Experiment Station and tagged art and poetry, clock, drawings, photorealism, poems, poetry, portraits, Whitfield Lovell, William Wordsworth. RT whaeavee: What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind (Wordsworth) 16 yrs on.

GLORY IN THE FLOWER WORDSWORTH SERIES

Whitfield Lovell: The Kin Series and Related Works is on view through Jan. The character Wilma Dean Loomis, played by Natalie Wood, utters the lines, Though nothing can bring back the hour/ Of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower / We will grieve not, rather find/ Strength in what remains behind.

GLORY IN THE FLOWER WORDSWORTH MOVIE

–William Wordsworth, “Ode on Intimations of Immortality” from Recollections of Early Childhood, 1804 Splendor in the Grass is a 1961 movie that features an excerpt of the William Wordsworth poem Ode: Intimations of Immortality.

In years that bring the philosophic mind. There is a comfort in the strength of love Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart. Of splendor in the grass, of glory in flower We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. Why do you think Lovell chose this particular phrase for this work? Why do you think he chose a clock as the accompanying object to this portrait? bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. The subtitle of this work by Whitfield Lovell, a recent acquisition for the museum, is “Glory in the Flower,” which references the below poem by William Wordsworth. Wordsworths separation from an idealized earlier self, his surrender of a privileged ontological status. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, The Dreier Fund for Acquisitions, 2013 © Whitfield Lovell and DC Moore Gallery, New York Splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. Conté on paper, vintage clock radio, 30 x 22 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. Where did the Wordsworth poem come from Poet William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England.

Whitfield Lovell, Kin XXXV (Glory in the Flower), 2011. Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind. What Wordsworth articulates in relation to a human life can be experienced also at more micro levels: each moment of phenomenal experience each sight, sound, thought, image, feeling also emerges trailing clouds of glory fully infused with its inherent Divinity.

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