Mark Gertler, British
Kimberly Demonstrating Her Newly Discovered Hack For Getting Seated Faster at Restaurants, 1924
Oil on canvas
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Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here (archived if necessary), here, here, here, here, here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page.
/// This young woman does not seem to care
that one breast is now totally bare.
When the strap slipped her shoulder,
did her chest not feel colder?
We see clues that the air’s nippy there.
/// A loose strap could fall down by mistake
if she shrugged, or if stitches should break.
Look again, though; you’ll see
that she’s pulled her arm free.
A mistake? Uh-uh, that news is fake!
/// Wardrobe mishaps are not all that odd.
(Some, on purpose, to show off the bod.)
This girl’s smart as a whip;
this was not a nip-slip,
but a full-bodied bosom-glissade.
/// I conclude that she’s purposely bare,
to distract us from what isn’t there.
And she wears The Straw Hat
to obscure the fact that
she is bald and has lost all her hair.
/// If, the foreground, we now try observing,
all those objects are somewhat unnerving.
An odd teacup, some fruit,
a stone parrot to boot,
on a surface whose curved edge keeps swerving.
/// Why did Gertner, an artist who’s able
to paint well, badly butcher that table?
The young woman’s bust serves
as proof Mark could paint curves,
but for still-life his skills were unstable.