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.
Victor Hugo
Vision of Notre-Dame, 1831
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evening of 15 April 2019
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Ikebana (生け花, 活け花, "arranging flowers" or "making flowers alive") is the Japanese art of flower arrangement. It is also known as Kadō (華道, "way of flowers").
Kadō is counted as one of the three classical Japanese arts of refinement, along with kōdō for incense appreciation and chadō for tea and the tea ceremony.
Artists of the Kanō school such as Sesshū Tōyō (1420–1506), Sesson, Kanō Masanobu, Kanō Motonobu (1476–1559), and Shugetsu of the 16th century were lovers of nature, so that ikebana advanced in this period a step further than temple and room decoration and commenced in a rudimentary way to consider natural beauty in floral arrangement. At this time ikebana was known as rikka.
This same age conceived another form called nageirebana. Rikka and nageirebana are the two branches into which ikebana has been divided. Popularity of the two styles vacillated between these two for centuries. In the beginning, rikka was stiff, formal, and more decorative while nageirebana was simpler and more natural...
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TARkado is a more recent development, a confluence of Kadō and Theatre of the Actors of Regard. Nature ranged in the painted world. It originates from country Victoria.
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inscription by free pencil movement
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The current exhibition at ACCA (until 24 March) is The Theatre is Lying. We are reminded of this
in relation to matters below.
The Theatre is Lying is the first in this series of exhibitions, encompassing major works by Anna Breckon and Nat Randall, Sol Calero, Consuelo Cavaniglia, Matthew Griffin and Daniel Jenatsch.
Constructed as an exhibition in five acts, The Theatre is Lying brings together artists who create alternative narratives and worlds through illusionary, cinematic and theatrical devices, including installation, misé en scene, historical re-enactment, digital montage and compositions with video, light and sound. In a series of new commissions, participating artists explore the manipulation of information and images, notions of artifice and illusion, ideas of transparency, reflection and phantasmagoria, and an engagement with the representations and misrepresentations of cinema and media.
Through the white cube of the gallery and the black box of cinema, The Theatre is Lying proposes the gallery as a transformative threshold addressing ideas of truth and fiction, perception and abstraction, and the warping of time and space. The exhibition also considers the role of the spectator as an active agent in a world in which we are all actors, and the increasing interplay between subjective and objective, or psychic and social structures. Set against theatres of media and politics that are increasingly informed by trickery and sleight of hand, The Theatre is Lying offers a means to reflect upon, critique and even escape – if only momentarily – the everyday reality of our fictive life and times.
Today, Cardinal George Pell was sentenced to six years imprisonment for child sexual assaults at Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, in 1966.
Cardinal George Pell
by David Roberts
2007 (printed 2012)
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2015
This portrait was commissioned through the Knights of Malta to commemorate Cardinal Pell's inauguration as Prefect of Secretariat for the Economy. The Cardinal is a "a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Knights of Malta, that’s the decoration around his neck," Gow said.
In 2016, the portrait was unveiled in the Vatican to commemorate Pell's inauguration as one of the Vatican’s most senior figures, Prefect of Secretariat for the Economy.
cover portrait used for :
Quarterly Essay #51 - September 2013
by David Marr
The Prince : Faith, abuse and George Pell
Last night, as a prolog to today's sentencing, this was the crime scene on the set of Saint Patrick's Theatre of the Actors of Regard, Melbourne.
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Tonight in so called Melb on Wurundjeri land, we honour child sexual abuse survivors, and those who didnt survive. Gather together to tie ribbons to the fence and projections from 8pm to let the catholic church know, we are watching them.
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Recently rediscovered in Des Moines, USA, and now restored, is Apollo and Venus (c.1600) by
Otto van Veen, the teacher of Rubens.
Also recently found, this one in Australia, c.1900,
Venus and Susie at The See, Apollo Bay.
It is thought to be painted 'after Whistler' by one of the Heidelberg School artists, a playful Antipodean response to the 1897 Bliss Sands & Co publication Venus & Apollo in Painting and Sculpture by William Stillman.
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Picked from yesterday's Label Tree ...
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May 30, 1930 – February 8, 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ryman
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Robert Ryman’s Surface Veil II & Surface Veil III, 1971, at the Museum of
Modern Art’s retrospective exhibition, 1993-94. Photograph: Ted Thai/
Life Images Collection/Getty
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for an imminent break away! Surely, it must fall?!
see: Means to Suspension of Disbelief
Yesterday, we were looking at and admiring this Theatre of the Actors of Regard page from the National Gallery of Australia's Foundation Annual Report 2015-16.
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Conceptual Annual Report : Instead of suspending the heavy gold-framed picture - A break away! (1891) by the Australian artist Tom Roberts, collection of AGSA - as it would have been hung when first exhibited, by strong metal wires attached at one end to the wall and at the other to this weighty object, the artwork here appears to float, SUPPORT-ed not by any physical wires but by the word SUPPORT , by the power of inscription, the spell of LANGUAGE.
We also note the intricacies of this photographic composition. At the base of the outer image, the silhouette man's raised right shoe turns to direct us to the leg-cropped woman. Inside the painted pic, the well-fit jigsaw-piece horseman, he too, leans out to point to the woman's curve of neck and head.
It's that old vaudeville magic. The no-visible-means-of-support leviation trick. Another
break away! brought under control.
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Thank you for your support.
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Issa Kobayashi (1763-1828)
FIAPCE LOSAR བོད་ཀྱི་ལོ་གསར།
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A big thank you to all the ground and air fire-fighters and their supporting Emergency Services personnel who have done such great work at Hepburn Springs in recent days. No persons or
houses were lost.
Eugene von Guerard pictured the scene Break Neck Gorge at Hepburn Springs (with Elevated Plains to either side) in 1864. The update below shows the western edge of the fire-blackened area, bordered now by Sunday's reTARdant landscape paintover.
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It was an awesome experience to see the Avro RJ85
pink-bellied bomber fly loud and low directly overhead.
Low-level fire bombing as an Avro RJ85 air tanker comes in under the tree height to combat the fires north of Hepburn. Photo by Brendan McCarthy, from Bendigo Advertiser
Thoughts of Colin McCahon's great JET OUT drawings. Below, his Boy, I would say GET OUT, from Easter 1973, with a local update by FIAPCE.
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見るところ花にあらずと云ふことなし、
思ふところ月にあらずと云ふことなし。
tokoro hana ni arazu to iu koto nashi,
omou tokoro tsuki ni arazu to iu koto nashi
There is nothing you can see
that is not a flower,
There is nothing you can think
that is not the moon.
Classical Japanese Database
Translation #172 : Reginald Horace Blyth
Matsuo Basho
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KA (Loud Laughter),
1962
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96 x 143 cm. (37.8 x 56.3 in.)
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