David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :
'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)
(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.
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‘Haha’ (Mother)
, 1962
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India Ink on Japan paper, on hardboard
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102.2 x 134 cm. (40.2 x 52.8 in.)
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Yosa Buson (1716-1784) Theatre of the Actors of Regard
Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967)
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Deux et deux font cinq.
Alphonse Allais
Création : 1 janvier 1895
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Regarding meta-matter :
What sort of question(s) is
"What's the matter?"?
What sort of answer(s) is
"What sort of question is that?"?
At the end of this clip, Clement Meadmore says,
"I guess, to me, the common denominator of all this is a matter of looking."
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Sengai Gibon (1750-1837)
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FIAPCE
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Well, I'm so tired of crying but I'm out on the road again
I'm on the road again
Well, I'm so tired of crying but I'm out on the road again
I'm on the road again
- Canned Heat
Another year gone –
hat in my hand,
sandals on my feet.
- Matsuo Basho (trans. Robert Hass)
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep my eyes wide open all the time
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds
Because you're mine, I walk the line
- Johnny Cash
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As observed by Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827)
New Year’s morning :
the ducks on the pond
quack and quack.
As observed by Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)
Year after year
on the monkey’s face
a monkey’s face.
Below, a haiga (haiku and image) by Basho. The drawing depicts a New Year's Eve home altar offering of Kagami mochi which is traditionally broken and eaten in a ritual called kagami biraki (mirror opening).
collection FIAPCE
We don't have a translation of the above Basho haiku, but here's a thematic contender, translated by Jane Reichhold :
ariake mo
misoka ni chikashi
mochi no oto
dawn moon
close to the end of the year
pounding rice
... and as translated for NYE by TAR :
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Fumi Uchida (1842-1910) | Tengu of the Actors of Regard
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We were interested last month to see, online, images of the recent "Dialogue" paintings by the Korean artist Lee Ufan at Pace Gallery, New York.
Exhibition text : click here
Hyperalleric article : click here
Lee Ufan, “Dialogue” (2016), acrylic on canvas, 86″ x 115″
(image courtesy Pace Gallery, photo by Mark Waldhauser, © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris)
Lee Ufan, “Dialogue” (2017), acrylic on canvas, 90″ × 72″
(image courtesy Pace Gallery, © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris)
Same-sui : same as it ever was
In this Edo period sansui (Shan Shui) by Nakabayashi Chikutō (Japan, 1776-1853), in this falling transition from mountains to the see, we note here too, as with Lee Ufan's recent Dialogues, the meticulous systematic horizontal brushstrokes that model this theatre of regard into form and appearance.
collection : FIAPCE
Same-same : same diff
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Thanks to Jeff, overseas with paintings, for ...
It is better to go to the beach and think about painting than it is to be painting and thinking about going to the beach.
- Agnes Martin
Albert Tucker
At Sorrento, Sidney Nolan Buried, John Reed, Sunday Reed,
and Joy Hester, Pregnant
1944
gelatin silver photograph
30.2 x 40.2 cm
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Gift of Barbara Tucker 2001
Sidney Nolan
Abstract (St Kilda Reflections)
1939
enamel on board
19 x 27 cm
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Gift of Barrett Reid 1993
© Sidney Nolan Trust
Bathers
1942
Sidney NOLAN
enamel paint on cardboard
64.0 × 76.2 cm
painted at Dimboola, Victoria
inscribed in brown paint l.c.:
BATHERS / 6. 12.42. N (N reversed).
inscribed in black chalk on reverse l.l.:
Nolan (an underlined) / 1942
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click image to TAR
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Watercolours by HRH
The Prince of Wales
National Gallery of Australia
10 August – 18 November 2018
HRH the Prince of Wales Kilphedir Pool on River Helmsdale, Sutherland 2015,
watercolour on paper, © A.G. Carrick
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On a similar theme to the previous post, here's
third man up from nowhere.
We imagine Yves Klein being somehow involved :
all of a sudden reappearing, coming off the bench
all these years later to take a screamer from nowhere.
Mark of the Year!
Yves Klein/ Easton Wood/ Shunk-Kender/ FIAPCE/ TAR/ AFL
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All of a sudden, every weekend, metaphysical football poetry.
“All of a sudden, the Pies have kicked nothing.”
- Mark McClure
Special Comments, ABC Grandstand
today, third quarter Collingwood v Port Adelaide
Mark McClure, Carlton (1974-1986)
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Meanwhile, warning : site of contamination
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from :
The persistence of curiosity
in documentary profiles
by Joanna Di Mattia
July 27, 2018
The Monthly
final para :
One biographical documentary can never capture the complexity of an entire life. Even the best examples of the genre are incomplete in some way. We might do better to take McQueen’s advice –
“If you want to know me, just look at my work.”
McQueen doesn’t just tell but shows us who the designer was. In the end, his counsel holds the key to best understanding all the lives we encounter in these films – inside their creations, their work, lies something closest to the truth of who they are.
TAR might add :
If you want to know you, just look at your looking.
Alexander McQueen and Kate Moss backstage at his spring/summer
2001 show. Photograph: © Ann Ray
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