It’s Syd Barrett’s birthday today and, as most of you know, I am a massive fan of the early Pink Floyd and Syd’s two solo albums. And it is my tradition on this blog to post something Syd-related on his birthday. “Flaming” is one of my favourite Pink Floyd songs and for a while now I had this idea of posting the song’s lyrics alongside with the appropriate paintings or pictures because the lyrics are so vivid and full of whimsical, childlike imagery which instantly bring images to my mind and makes me daydream of some fairy tale land of flowers and clouds.
Henri-Edmond Cross, The Pink Cloud, 1896
Odilon Redon, Flower Clouds (c 1903), pastel
Alone in the clouds all blue
Edouard Vuillard, The Red Eiderdown, 1894
Art by Nissan Engel.
Lazing in the foggy dew
Sitting on a unicorn.
No fair, you can’t hear me
But I can you.
Marianne Stokes, In the Meadow (In a Field of Buttercups) (c 1890)
Watching buttercups cup the light
Burchfield, Dandelion Seed Heads and the Moon, ca. 1961-65
Ludwig Stasiak, Dandelions, 1900
Sleeping on a dandelion.
Too much, I won’t touch you
But then I might.
Byron's Muse 