27 december 2022

27 december 2022

John Bjarne Grover

A distributional function 14: Caravaggio and Tiepolo

Tiepolo's "Time unveiling Truth" can be recognized in TEQ book 14 poem #156 (out of 207 enumerated poems) = TEQ #1403 in volume 2. This poem consists of 3 parts, the second of these having the section title 'Ledged 27.03.03' which was written on 29.12.03 which is 277 days after the date in the title. Hence it 'means' the time interval 277 days in 2003.

277/365 = 0,759 which multiplies with 1403 = 1064,7 - and the interval between these is 1403-1064 = #339 = Tiepolo's 'Triumph of Flora' which contains the same wheel, the same 'one-legged' woman and the same yellow-golden textile/veil. But the leg is 'twined' - the foot is on her left side but is a righthand foot.

TEQ book 14 poem #156 out of 207 enumerated poems = 156/207 = 0,754

This is therefore the contents of this 'LEDGED' - it is intertwined.

The ratio 0,759 is seen in the upper joint of the wing, the upper joint of the other wing is at appr 0,5 from the top which also is the position of the leg and hand horizontally.

See the quasi-'ledged' sculpture head in the box up right, next to the sun: On a distance it looks like a forearm between a sleeve and a pocket seen also in Caravaggio's Supper in Emmaus (1606) - the man standing next to Christ at the table (the following images are edited quotes from the referred-to internet pages):

In this angle (seen in a mirror, it seems), taking the two forearms exposed between sleeve and pocket to be 'the same', the winged being of Tiepolo will correspond to the man sitting to the right in the artwork of Caravaggio, with his hands holding the 'ledged' table surface, the woman behind him will then be the sum of the two men in front of him, that is, these two are 'twined' from the woman coming with the food behind him. In this way, Tiepolo's woman is Caravaggio's 'ledged' table in the 'twined' sense of the woman serving food. Tiepolo's winged being holds a cloth between his hand and her body - that is the tablecloth of Caravaggio.

My poem #1403 asks "What sort of pocket is this really?" - which could be about that pocket of the two forearms. 'Triumph of Flora' suggests that the pocket is a visionary pocket of metaphysics opening in the physical world - like that 'Triumph of Flora'.

This means that TEQ #1403 is 'distributional' in the sense of comprising two different artworks by two different artists in such a way that the shared elements seem to recur with 'intervals' that could enter into a distributional semantics a la the typical function 14.

My thanks to the birds that made me aware of these connections.