The works of the Cubists can be compared with the texts of Gertrude Stein. For example, in Tender Buttons, the writer uses the tone and pronunciation of words as a figurative element of objects – “The sight of a reason, the same sight slighter, the sight of a simpler negative answer, the same sore sounder, the intention to wishing, the same splendor, the same furniture.”
So coffee almost ssssssseeping into us, we are ssssoaking the atmosphere of the coffee procedure.
Also, the author, as it were, gives a different perspective on objects. The Cubists showed the object from different angles as if allowing evaluating or seeing the object in a new way or the coexistence of all points of view. Gertrude Stein does the same only with words. It provides another parallel for the perception of the object.
“A single image is not splendor. Dirty is yellow. A sign of more in not mentioned. A piece of coffee is not a detainer. The resemblance to yellow is dirtier and distincter. The clean mixture is whiter and not coal color, never more coal color than altogether.”
It sounds like she would describe the painting with a coffee cup on the table painted by one of the cubists.
Bibliography and references
1. Georges Braque, 1911, La Tasse (The Cup), oil on canvas, 24.1 x 33 cm [Painting] At: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Georges_Braque,_1911,_La_Tasse_(The_Cup),_oil_on_canvas,_24.1_x_33_cm_(9.5_x_13_in).jpg (Accessed 12.04.2021)
2. Tender Buttons [Objects] Gertrude Stein - 1874-1946 At: https://poets.org/poem/tender-buttons-objects (Accessed 12.04.2021)
1. ‘Cultural Exchange’ in which the author A S Byatt talks to Mark Lawson about Henri Matisse’s ‘The Red Studio’ At: Front Row's Cultural Exchange - A.S. Byatt's Cultural Exchange - BBC Sounds Accessed 12.04.2021)
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