Film noir photographer, R. M. Lunday, joins us to discuss the virtues of monochrome, the aesthetic allure of Japan, the wonders of Nikon and his formative experience with a camera from the Vietnam War.
Now available on our website!
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Letellier’s poem, ‘Sartorial’, demonstrates the power of understated revelations - of blank spaces busy with thoughts, of grandiose truths rendered plainly, of emotional impressions preserved in quiet words. Imagine watching a volcano erupt from a thousand miles away; this is the effect of Letellier’s poetry. Intimate and distant.
Now available on our website!
Painting: Salvador Dalí’s ‘Spider of the Evening’ (1940).
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In ‘The Meaning of Art’, the eminent English critic, Hebert Read, suggests that abstract art is a way of harnessing, understanding and ordering chaos. It is a way of recognising and representing the indeterminate, of confronting an infinite regress of ambiguity with something intelligible. He does not mean to say that creative composition is a cold, mathematical art, just that it gives shape to something that is otherwise shapeless, otherwise unfathomable.
Imagine that someone has told you about an impossibly beautiful marble behind a curtain. You can’t see it because the curtain is in the way. You have a few ideas about how it might look, but you can’t quite imagine it. Then someone pulls the curtain aside. You see the marble. You finally grasp what it is that you’ve heard so much about. The person pulling the curtain aside is the artist. The marble is chaos.
Do you agree? Do you think that the artist can pull the curtain aside?
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Humanity is often a portrait of conformity. We stand in lines, gather en masse, shop in uniform aisles. Charles Miltenberger - seasoned social satirist, talented artist and resident fly on the wall - offers us his thoughts on our Hopperesque world.
The interview - alongside a selection of his paintings - is now available on our website.
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With its tears, smiles and frowns, many think that the face has a monopoly on expression. Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), the French sculptor renowned for ‘The Thinker’, was of a different mind. For him, the hand was one of the most communicative parts of the body: the distressed hand clenched in pain, the searching hand grazing a lover’s in a sensual moment, the commanding hand in the act of creation. Rodin returned to this subject time and time again.
Next time you are out and about, try observing something you wouldn’t usually observe. We spend most of our lives missing incredible details because we are not used to noticing them. Your next extraordinary narrative may well lie in the unplumbed depths of the ordinary.
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Emily Tee's ‘The Grapes Are Heavy on the Vine’, with its thoughtful nod to Steinbeck, is pregnant with the emotion of the bygone pandemic. Romantic but not sentimental, Tee's poem also provides wider commentary on the passing realities of superabundance, abundance, scarcity and austerity.
Now available on our website.
Painting: Adriaen Coorte's 'Still Life with a Hanging Bunch of Grapes, Two Medlars, and a Butterfly' (1687).
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Alexandru Macedonski (1854-1920), a leading Romanian poet, composed a vast body of work that is, for the time being, almost entirely inaccessible to English speakers. As part of our new translation project, we are delighted share his beautiful verse with an international audience. You can now find A. R. Tivadar’s translation of ‘Rondeau of the Moon’, originally published in 1927, on our website.
A bit of literary background for you: Macedonski was influenced primarily by French Symbolism and Parnassianism. In his old age, he became known for his rondeaux, one of the three ‘formes fixes’ in Medieval and Renaissance poetry. For those unfamiliar with Parnassianism, the movement emerged in the 19th century (just after Romanticism) and included figures such as Mallarmé, Verlaine and Leconte de Lisle. The movement was named after the anthology, Le Parnasse Contemporain, to which they contributed in the 1860s and 70s. Their poems were detached and technically precise, reflective of the positivist quest for objectivity.
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We have all experienced periods of aimlessness and dissatisfaction. We have all looked back and thought about something we could have done, a chance we could have taken, a person we could have been. ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’, a short story laced with brutal beauty, explores all these feelings through the frustrations of a wasted talent. Who’s in the mood for a masterful creation by one of the Lost Generation writers?
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Another exciting artist interview and feature! Seth Ellison, a Philadelphia-based painter, began his journey as an aspiring Walt Disney animator, but was ultimately swept away by the principles of Surrealist automatism. In the interview, Ellison explores the joint influence of Gainsborough and Van Gogh on his rural paintings, alongside his views on symbolism and his interest in American Regionalism.
A note for American art lovers (and keen travellers): you can find information about his upcoming exhibitions in New York towards the end of the interview.
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A few months ago, we published ‘Moonflowers’, a deliciously discursive short story by H. K. G Lowery. For enthusiastic readers of his work - and of this journal - we have taken the time to interview this eccentric and imaginative writer. Within, we discuss the connection between music and literature; trends in contemporary poetry; the value of experimentation; spontaneous creativity; and the wonderfully mysterious way in which disparate lives overlap.
Painting: Henri Matisse’s ‘Cat with Red Fish’ (1938).
(Apologies for the repost. There was an error on the original post that needed to be corrected.)
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Always thinking about expanding the range of content at Aurum Journal, we have decided to add a new submissions category to the list: poetry translations. Welcoming all previously untranslated (or very infrequently translated) work!
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