The Popeye Effect

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We've had a newspaper article lying around for some weeks, wondering if it was too late to post it here. It begins...

I KNOW nothing about art, but I know when a painting pulls the eyes out of my head and makes me stop and look at it. Same with footy. I know I'm seeing a great game when I forget everything else and start talking to the television set because no one else is in the room.

Losing your mind on a masterpiece
Martin Flanagan
The Age, 30 April 2011

read full article here

This morning we received from the Queensland Art Gallery|
Gallery of Modern Art an invitation to a Lecture and Morning Tea Viewing of the exhibition Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams. Would that be morning tea a la Meret Openheim?

Meret Oppenheim
Le Déjeuner en Fourrure
1936

And sugar with that? One lump? Or a hundred and fifty-two?

Marcel Duchamp.
Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy?
1921/64.

On the front of the invitation, an image previously unknown to your correspondent. Aha! That Martin Flanagan article!

Victor Brauner
Sur le motif (Painted from nature)
1937
Collection: Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris

detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...

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