Girard Limerick #2: Girard found the key to his art in the Attic
Master of Mud (aka artist) and former Center for Creative Studies (CCS), Detroit, professor of art, Bill (William J.) Girard Jr., passed away in 2011. The website created to honor him is found at https://girardsvasari.com/
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Girard found the key to his art in the Attic.
But his Greece made art police manic.
As detractors cried “Cataclysm!”
He smothered their tears in art jism
With a tail so tall, it's famed as His Panic.
With a tail so tall, it's famed as His Panic.
* The allusion is to Attic Greek culture. Roughly contemporaneous with the early
classic Greek period 500 to 250 BCE.
To learn more about the marvelous artist that inspired such such fervor, peruse my previous blog post, Girard? Girard Who?
Other Posts
- DETROIT NEWS ART CRITIC REVIEWS BILL GIRARD (1967)
- GIRARD: THE FAIRY'S TALE. PART I - A PROSE POEM FOR PERFORMANCE
- CONVERSATION WITH AN EARLY GIRARD COLLECTOR: MR. DOUBLEDAY
- ART AS ANODYNE FOR A YOUNG PATIENT: A GIRARD ANECDOTE
- GIRARD'S PINCKNEY, MICHIGAN, MURALS (CIRCA 2005)
- 2 ARTISTS. 4 PAINTINGS. WHICH GET IN THE SHOW?
- A LETTER FROM BILL: THE "NION" WOMAN
- GIRARD LIMERICK #1: THERE ONCE WAS AN ARTIST NAMED BILL
- GIRARD LIMERICK #2: GIRARD FOUND THE KEY TO HIS ART IN THE ATTIC
- A FASCINATION WITH FAIRIES. (EXCERPT)
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