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Guido Vermeulen's mail art envelopes are like worlds into themselves and at the same time they are part of the much larger whole.

(a comment by NANCY BELL SCOTT, USA, on the IUOMA network)

Guido's paintings are like finding images in the clouds
(a comment by Kathleen D. Johnson, USA, on IUOMA)

Guido does not paint monsters but spirits and ghosts, full of love, tenderness and compassion
(LIZA LEYLA during a conversation, Belgium)

His ability to express emotions through painting is a beautiful gift. Allowing oneself to feel sadness is the most direct route through grief. His paintings feel peaceful and kind.

(STEPHEN WALKER, USA)


My life is shifting... Your work is intangible, ethereal, cosmically rewarding. i eat it up & savor it like a great sandwich! It made my day!
(Lisa PEREZ, USA, on IUOMA)

Thank you for the TALISMAN painting on the envelope. It is real cool and creepy at the same time. I haven’t seen a piece of abstract capture such as pain and emotion so well since I visited the museum of art in Toledo. Bravo!
(Sarah Jo Pender, USA, from the Indiana Women’s Prison)

I suppose you could characterize Guido's painting style as expressionist. I know he is very interested in dreams as a source for art and poetry, and these particular chapter pages seem like shadowy dream corridors filled with shifting images and scenes. The Michaux quotes work as a counterpoint, Guido's art is taking over when the limits of language have been reached.
(De Villo Sloan, USA, on my tribute pages to Henri Michaux, see LAMUSAR blog)

Guido’s art expressions are always poems and they show us the reality of our real faces and souls (Mariana Serban, Romania)

His titles have both inspired and educated me (Alicia Starr, USA)

dinsdag 23 augustus 2011

MANDELSTAM & TSVETAEVA



Small painted envelope around the Night Town Poem II by David Stone.
Inspired by these lines:
"In the tundra, Mandelstam
hid his poems under lichen coated rocks
and memorized star charts
in the moonlit winter."

The painting is a bit cryptic, so I want to explain (with tears in my heart):
P1-P7 are 7 poems by Ossip Mandelstam
M T stands for Marina Tsvetaeva
Her nostalgia for Russia was so big she returned from exile to stalinist Russia, then the femail poet was banned to Siberia, she packed and her suitcase did not close, Mandelstam gave her his belt to close the suitcase. It was with that same belt MT ended her life by hanging herself in Siberia. The rope formed the letter O for Ossip. (GV)
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