The tracks of our tears

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Prenez garde à la peinture
Francis Picabia
1919

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Listen Up !

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Words from the DarkSide
Exclusive Interviews

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Dark Lady
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Darth Vader
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Baby
First Words

Banksy
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NEVER PAINT AGAIN !

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Prenez Garde à la Peinture
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Then you'll never paint
Australia Landscape
Again!

- bL



To you I shall put an end
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Then you'll never hear
Surf Music
Again!

- Jimi

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Beware : paintHings ( Prenez Garde aux Peintures )

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1913. Recovered after theft, the Mona Lisa is being returned to The Louvre when...

Peinture par Avion
se confond avec
Peinture à la Cart

"As beautiful as the chance meeting on a Paris street of La Joconde and an Air Painting!"

FIAPCE after Lautremont, Breton, Ernst...

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A polly ne're enameled. And yet who...

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You want a what ?

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Say Please. Pretty Please.

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This Pretty Polly Proposes to Paint

a Proper Painthing Projection-Space

... or else !

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- - - - - H - - -

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Take the L
out of Lover
and it's over

Motels (1982)

Take the H
out of paintHing
and it's over

PAINThING (AS ONE) closes today at aeaf
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Take the S
out of Slaughter
and it's laughter

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Paint Tin as one...

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for John

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PAINThING (AS ONE)

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Australian Experimental Art Foundation (Adelaide)
16 April - 15 May 2010

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akira akira · micky allan · clarice beckett · eugene carchesio · maria cruz · joseph de lutiis · ludwik dutkiewicz · wladyslaw dutkiewicz · diena georgetti · matthys gerber · romi graham · anton hart · sam howie · aldo iacobelli · lindy lee · nick mourtzakis · elizabeth newman · brigid noone · ian north · rosslynd piggott · gregory pryor · yhonnie scarce · sam schoenbaum · vivienne shark le witt · helen smith · john spiteri · adriane strampp · peter tyndall · paul uhlmann · anne scott wilson · judith wright

D0menico de Clario's invitation to participate in this exhibition was as poetic and stimulating as any every received by bL.

Here is the exhibition poster with Dom's depiction of the "painthing constellation".

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Paint (from Online Etymology Dictionary)
The noun is from c.1600. The verb meaning "to color with paint" (mid-13c.) is earlier than the artistic sense of "to make a picture of" (late 13c.) and older than painting in the sense of "an artist's picture in paint" (late 14c.); but painter is older in the sense of "artist who paints pictures" (mid-14c.) than in the sense of "workman who colors surfaces with paint" (c.1400). To paint the town (red) "go on a spree" first recorded 1884; to paint (someone or something) black "represent it as wicked or evil" is from 1590s. Adj. paint-by-numbers "simple" is attested by 1970.

The commonly used term a painting has long seemed to bL strange and anachronistic. It privileges the mere material paint (colour pigment/s in a binder medium: either liquid or dried) over any other descriptive option. As if paint is the alpha and, despite any pictorial use it might be put to, the omega. A painting conventionally indicates a noun-thing. Yet it has this curious present participle -ing suffix. Not a verb, not a gerund (eg sleeping) but still a verb-noun thing. Why not just say paint or a paint? "Hey, that's great paint" or "Hey, that's a great paint".

Where others refer to a painting, bL refers to a painted. Ditto paintings and painteds. Which is just as weird, of course, but it draws attention to the oddness of the accepted, almost transparent, terminoLOGOS/HA HA : a painting, paintings

-1984-

Rather than use either term ( a painting or a painted ) bL prefers the open designation projection-space. It conjures a fuller scene, one that necessarily includes a projector and a light.

Like a painted, the new term painthing acknowledges its lineage with a nod and a wink. Additionally, to this beholder, it has a ring of indeterminacy to it. That's the effect of the reverberating possible-thing suffix. Paint-ing/ paint-thing/ pain-thing/ painthing. Some somethings. And in there, in that phonic mix, where once there was only one dumb material, paint, now there's possibly pain too

like in... (cue here Steve Reich's opening testament of the beaten, black youth: "I had to, like, open the bruise up and let some of the bruise blood come out to show them") come out to show them come out toshow them come out toshowthem come out...

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Two Of Hearts

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One more from the Book of Sin (1958), made at age 7.

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The Priest washes away my sins with our Lord's Precious Blood

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Which was more or less ready to post ...

... then T sent a link to wolf wolf

an illustrated book by her son J, made at age 8.

click here to see and read wolf wolf online

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Two of Hearts : one of suffering, one of wisdom. Together they point us from the mind of drawthing to the (of little difference) mind of painthing. More in the coming posts.

In the meantime, this secular painter applies his trade.

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