Poem of The Right Angle - C. Chair (Flesh-Violet)

C. Chair (Flesh-Violet)

Corbusier's tribute to the flesh consists of more complicated figures representing the animal world and all of its creative capacities.

C.1.

Some oxen of burden pass every day in front of my window. Because of being designed and redesigned the ox - of pebble and of root becomes bull.

C.2.

They are innumerable who sleep but others know to open the eye. Because the profound refuge is in the great cavern of sleep that other side of life in the night.

C.3. This is the centerpiece of the iconostase, which Corbusier dedicated to his wife.

Tenderness! Shell the Sea has not ceased to throw us the wreckage of smiling harmony on the shores. Hand kneads hand caresses hand glides. The hand and the sea love one another.

C.4. The center line is quite overt, which may indicate that the image can also be undestood when turned 90°, a practice Le Corbusier was fond of.

They are but half, giving to life only one half And the second part comes to them and fuses And good or bad comes to them the two who met!

C.5. The image of a woman's body with a unicorn's head is a motif that is also seen in the mural of Le Corbusier's Swiss Pavilion at the Paris University Campus (C.I.U.P.), as are 3 other plates from the Poeme.

The galley sails The voices singing on board As all becomes strange and is transposed is transported high and is reflected on the plan of happiness