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📸 of Robert Lavigne, by Allen Ginsberg, with his handwritten commentary: Robert LaVigne, Painter friend of Poets, visiting 1010 Montgomery Street – see Kerouac's portrait of LaVigne as “Levesque” in Desolation Angels, “Robert Browning” in Big Sur. We’d all lived together on Gough Street & later Hotel Weatley thou Peter & I moved to Montgomery Street North Beach, where I wrote Howl in this room, S.F. 1955.
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Robert LaVigne NUDE WITH ONIONS (PETER ORLOVSKY) (1954)
Nude With Onions (Portrait of Peter Orlovsky) (1954) Robert LaVigne
In 1955, after traveling in Mexico, Beat poet Allen Ginsberg settled in San Francisco for several years. One night on Polk Street, he noticed a stranger "looking poor & interesting with a beard." Ginsberg approached the man "and wanted something beautiful to happen, I'd end up that night in some angelic bed … anyway, embarrassed, went up and talked to him because he had a beard." The man was artist Robert LaVigne. The pair walked up Polk to LaVigne's apartment and studio at 1403 Gough Street and talked about art as they walked. According to Ginsberg, "[W]e talked about Cézanne—I had a theory of space ellipse in Cézanne which I manufactured in the basement of NY Museum of Modern Art hi on T looking at the View of Garonne drawing—he understood all that … all this to say that we had a long interesting theoretical conversation, I was amazed at his seriousness, almost religious, toward his art & thought him a sure & trustful brother. First picture I saw in his Gough Street house was a huge naked portrait of Peter Orlovsky—I looked in its eyes & was shocked by love." This was one of the key aesthetic events in Ginsberg's life and one he remembered till the day of his death. On another occasion, he wrote of the portrait, "[S]omething happened sort of between me and it; that is, like I fell in love with it, and so I was delighted a few minutes later when Peter actually walked in the room." https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/the-huge-naked-portrait-that-made-allen-ginsberg-feel-shocked-by-love-peter-orlovsky
What started as an exercise in brand building and a series of individual topics in Robert’s new hometown became a humbling learning experience of 100 podcasts.
Robert shares his experience and also how the series concluded with an interview with a man who represents community - Walter Gretzky, affectionately known as "Canada's Hockey Dad," father of #99 and Lord Mayor of Brantford. The City of Brantford recently recognized Robert for all his efforts.
Robert Lavigne. Mescaline I;15.
Allen Ginsberg’s rediscovered Bernie Sanders poem, Beat Shindigs, Robert Lavigne, John Wieners, Philip Whalen - Friday’s Weekly Round-Up on the Ginsberg blog - http://ginsbergblog.blogspot.com/…/fridays-weekly-round-up-…
Owen Greaves | The Disposable Web | Podcast Interview
My Video / Podcast Interview with Robert Lavigne - Owen Greaves | The Disposable Web | Podcast Interview
Robert Lavigne
Recently I was asked to be a guest on Robert Lavigne’s show called The Disposable Web – Robert and I have known each other digitally only, for many years, we finally got a chance to sit and chat, I hope you enjoy it. It’s a bit long, and we cover a lot of ground. I share what I think the disposable web is, what it means to me, I’m curious what it means to you. I may offend you, so…
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The complete segment of The Disposable Web with Owen Greaves at http://thedisposableweb.com/tagged/Owen_Greaves
