Re. 'Death and transabstraction'

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We are as shadows...

Watching the parade-to-execution of a Prime Minister, on TV an hour ago, we screen-snapped this one image of PM Malcolm Turnbull (centre) and his ally Arthur Sinidinos (left) as they passed by an artwork of John Coburn, all lit by camera flashes.

As he approaches the Liberal Party Meeting Room for the leadership vote, the Prime Minister knows he will be overthrown by former PM Tony Abbott's revolt of reactionary avengers.

Arthur Sinidinos, who was instrumental in Turnbull's ascendency over Abbott three years ago, is seriously ill with cancer.

The people's Parliament House Art Collection is very poorly represented online. We needed to search elsewhere to confirm details of the John Coburn artwork : appropriate to this Theatre of the Actors of Regard procession of shadows... 
its title is Death and transfiguration.

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And the vote, the result? The Liberal Party has today elected this person, Scott Morrison, as Australia's next Prime Minister, leader of the Government COALition.

photo Mike Bowers / The Guardian  

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And Josh Frydenberg, the present Minister for the Environment and Energy (below with coal) was elected as Deputy Prime Minister.

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verse + verso

LOOKING AT the auction lists 
for Melbourne and Tokyo
tomorrow : two paintings of
persons supported, looking 
to and looking fro

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 Lot 3123
 PETER CHURCHER (born 1964)
 Self Portrait Looking Away (1999)
 oil on canvas
 signed and dated lower centre: P. Churcher 99
 86 x 76cm

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 Description of item (translation) :
 It is Yosa Buson figure figure. 
 Paper book. Handwriting. Some spots, broken, there 
 are places of gnawing. 

 Please carefully look at the image and offer a bid.
 Size : Main Paper Vertical 85.4 cm Width 27.3 cm
 Overall Vertical 152.5 cm Horizontal 31.4 cm 

 Shaft 37.3 cm

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Down on their luck

AGWA Foundation Picture Club (July)

Headline image - Frederick McCubbin Down on his luck 1889. Oil on canvas, 145 x 183.3 x 14 cm (framed) 114.5 x 152.5 cm (painting). State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased 1896.

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TAR : Bonus Track*

*Beyonce wore a Peter Pilotto suit,
  Jay-Z rocked Puma sneakers.

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The See

If The Field were The Sea ...

Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 

'Twas sad as sad could be; 

And we did speak only to break 

The silence of the sea! 

All in a hot and copper sky, 

The bloody Sun, at noon, 

Right up above the mast did stand, 

No bigger than the Moon. 

Day after day, day after day, 

We stuck, nor breath nor motion; 

As idle as a painted ship 

Upon a painted ocean. 

Water, water, every where, 

And all the boards did shrink; 

Water, water, every where, 

Nor any drop to drink. 

The very deep did rot: O Christ! 

That ever this should be! 

Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs 

Upon the slimy sea. 

About, about, in reel and rout 

The death-fires danced at night; 

The water, like a witch's oils, 

Burnt green, and blue and white. 

And some in dreams assurèd were 

Of the Spirit that plagued us so; 

Nine fathom deep he had followed us 

From the land of mist and snow. 

And every tongue, through utter drought, 

Was withered at the root; 

We could not speak, no more than if 

We had been choked with soot. 

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks 

Had I from old and young! 

Instead of the cross, the Albatross 

About my neck was hung. 

- from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834) 
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If The Field were The See ...

above : 'The Field Revisited' at National Gallery of Victoria (2018)

below : An original c.1873 watercolour painting, Attrib. Keeley Halswelle RI ARSA, Venetian Boats.

A colourful study in watercolour showing Venetian bragozzo fishing boats, attributed to Keeley Halswelle RI ARSA (1832-1891). Halswelle was a painter of genre scenes and landscapes, and a watercolourist and illustrator. He painted quite extensively in Italy in the 1870s, and in particular Venice, having moved to Italy in 1869. He also had a fondness for boats, and in later life owned a houseboat on the Thames.

This charming small sketch captures the colour and activity of the Venice lagoon. It shows the boats’ decorated square lug sails, traditionally emblazoned with cabalistic signs or heraldic symbols. Sponges and natural dyes were used to paint the sails in bright colours, which would help preserve the material and make the boats recognisable at a distance.

- Text copyright © 2018 Somerset & Wood Fine Art Ltd. All rights reserved.

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TAR : The Musical

click to watch the video  

 Yesterday, a closing scene. 
 Another one today -
 TAR

 I can't believe we made it (this is what we made, made)
 This is what we're thankful for (this is what we thank, thank)
 I can't believe we made it (this a different angle)
 Have you ever seen the crowd goin' apeshit? Rah!

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Antipodean re. View

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Theatre of the Actors of Regard enjoyed the epilog scene in Sebastian Smee's review of Baselitz: Six Decades at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington:

'Whatever. The comedy of watching art aficionados standing in front of these canvases and trying to resist the urge to turn their heads upside down, the better to see them, is a consolation, of sorts.'

Georg Baselitz is an overrated hack. Art collectors fell for him - but you don’t have to.
Sebastian Smee | The Washington Post

24 June 2018
     

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Jump! ] House of Pain|t (

This was drawn a few days ago to House of Pain's
Jump Around.



 I came to get down, I came to get down
 So get out your seat and jump around!
 Jump around!
 Jump around!
 Jump around!
 Jump up, jump up and get down!
 Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! (Everybody jump)
 Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump!
 Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! (Everybody jump)
 Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump!
 Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! (Everybody jump)
 Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump!
 Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! (Everybody jump)
 Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump!
 Jump!

Today, in Hyperallegic, this article :

Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys Launch New Art Grant, Giving 20 Artists $5,000 Each

 Swizz Beatz in front of a work from Nick Cave’s Tondo series 
 (image courtesy the Dean Collection)

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John Mawurndjul at MCA

John Mawurndjul

I am the old and the new

A comprehensive survey of the artist's work, opening soon at MCA, Sydney.

MCA: Learn the stories of Arnhem Land as we celebrate the opening of John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new (6 Jul – 23 Sep). Hear from the Kuninjku elder and artist as he discusses kunred (places of cultural significance), stay for a panel discussion on contemporary Aboriginal art practices, join a curatorial tour, and drop into our Family Day for story time, activities and performances.

Curators' Insights | Fri 6 Jul | 12.30–2.30pm | Free

In conversation: John Mawurndjul | Sat 7 Jul | 11am–12.30pm

Panel discussion: Breaking Ground | Sat 7 Jul | 1.30–3pm

Family Day | Sun 8 Jul | 10.30am–4pm | Free

John Mawurndjul, Mandjabu at Mumeka, 2003-03a 

Ochre pigments with PVA fixative on bark. 

Museum of Contemporary Art and Maningrida Arts and Culture, purchased 2003.

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Cosentient regard

We observe that we observe coincidences. 

Yesterday, we received via email links these two images below. Each a painting by a woman, each depicting a woman looking at a bird perched on her arm. 
                                            

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 Gloria Stoll Karn
 Woman and bird 

 1940s
 watercolor and gouache on board
 22 1/2” x 22 1/4”
 © Gloria Stoll Karn :

 Article here :

  

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 JOY HESTER (1920-1960)
 Girl with Cocky c.1957
 oil on paper on board
 unsigned
 titled and dated on Strines Gallery label (attached verso)
 handwritten 1986 certification of the painting by Albert Tucker 

   on a second label (attached verso)
 49 x 62cm
 

 Auction link here :
 PS  Sold for $322,400, setting a new auction record for Hester

  

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The Handmaid's Tale - Season 2 Episode 6 Roll Credits :

Oh Poly Styrene !

Some people say little girls should be seen and not heard
But I say... 1 2 3 4
Oh Bondage! Up yours!
Bind me tie me
Chain me to the wall I wanna be a slave
To you all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Chain-store chain-smoke
I consume you all
Chain-gang chain-mail
I don't think at all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Thrash me crash me
Beat me till I fall
I wanna be a victim
For you all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more

X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours! 1977

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Full fathom fifty : The Field Revisited

Five decades deep, The Field was staged at the new National Gallery of Victoria flagship in St Kilda Road, Melbourne.

 In conversation, Eric Westbrook, Royston Harpur, Roy Grounds

 on the set of Theatre of the Actors of Regard - The Field, 1968. 

 Photograph by George Mehes / National Gallery of Victoria

Now, the pilgrim and tourist TARists would return. 

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them,
-  ding-dong, bell.

   Shakespeare, The Tempest 

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CANVAS STRETCHING DEMONSTRATION after Ike Taiga (1723-1776)

A few days ago we received this image and notification from Chapman & Bailey (Melbourne).

FREE CANVAS STRETCHING DEMONSTRATION
Saturday 12th May 2018
11am – 12 pm

BOOK NOW - Limited Spaces available!

You are warmly invited to attend a FREE canvas stretching demonstration presented by Mark Chapman.

*Chapman & Bailey Melbourne only*

For this demonstration, Mark Chapman, founder of Chapman & Bailey, will be demonstrating:
  - All about different stretcher profiles and bracing
  - How to put a stretcher together so it is square

  - Cutting the canvas to size
  - The art of stretching a canvas with and without 

    stretching pliers
  - What are wedges for?
  - Surfaces: The difference between linen and cotton, 

    unsized and primed canvas, 

    the different weights and densities of canvas you can use
  - A brief explanation of surface preparation for raw linen

Chapman & Bailey
Melbourne Art Shop
420 Johnston St
Abbotsford, VIC 3067
ph 03 9417 7957

Limited numbers! Please book a ticket to reserve a place.

*Wheelchair access


Stretching The Field

The Chapman & Bailey advertisement reminds us of something similar, the arcane preliminary painting practice known as Stretching The Field.
  

Ike Taiga records a public demonstration of this.

The Stretchers were dedicated apprentices who assisted and learned from their Void Master.

Painting The Void 

Taiga shows us a demonstration intended primarily for prospective practitioners of Painting The Void.

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The Field Revisted

 Michael Johnson and John Peart discuss The Mooch by fellow
 participant Dick Watkins : The Field, National Gallery of Victoria

 photo Daily Telegraph

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 1968-2018 : White Art Cult family revisits The Field.
 NGV AUSTRALIA until 26 August 

   
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