А вы могли бы?
(1913)
Я сразу смазал карту будня,
плеснувши краску из стакана;
я показал на блюде студня
косые скулы океана.
На чешуе жестяной рыбы
прочел я зовы новых губ.
А вы
ноктюрн сыграть
могли бы
на флейте водосточных труб?
—
and could you?
(1913)
i suddenly smeared the weekday map
splashing paint from a glass;
on a plate of aspic
i revealed
the ocean’s slanted cheek.
on the scales of a tin fish
i read the summons of new lips.
and you
could you perform
a nocturne on a drainpipe flute?
(illustration: alexander rodchenko, photomontage for rear cover of mayakovsky’s a conversation with a tax-collector about poetry, 1926)
the klaxon magazine was a distinguished literary magazine created in 1922 to expose the brazilian modernism ideas. it was the brazilian modernism movement that proclaimed the disruption of three factors: academicism, the concept of art established at the time and the prejudice of people who venerated the past against new ideas.
it offered renovation in art and search for the brazilian identity, which is to say the modernization of art in brazil by absorbing information from abroad and (re)searching its very own tradition.
in the words of writer mario de andrade, “it’s the permanent right to aesthetics research, brazilian artistic intelligence modernization and the establishment of a national creative counsciousness”.
art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it.
vladimir mayakovsky
