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.


31 January 2017

Leonard French (1928-2017)

 
The temperatures of TAR 
When you're hot, you're hot!
When you're not, you're not!
Vale Leonard French 

In her obituary tribute in yesterday's THE AGE (here),
Leonard French's daughter Lisa sums up :

"He was the luckiest of men. He had achieved everything he ever wanted. His cultural legacy is enormous; he leaves behind a large body of work of international standing. Art inspired him all of his life.
His achievements were greater than he could have imagined and he died happy, satisfied, and much loved – none of us could want more."

TAR and the temperatures of others : 
if there's a lesson t|here, it was not for him, it's for us.

Your correspondent had some early brief contact with him and his work and has remained aware of him, continued to think about him and his work, and about the fickleness of the Theatre of the Actors of Regard. 

In this, we note also the online comments by the artist Gareth Sansom, added to the obituary by Ashleigh Wilson in The Australian :

His Legend coffee shop mural based on Sinbad the Sailor had an enormous influence on me - after  seeing it in 1958, and the Melbourne University swimming pool mural, I raced home and started using my father's Dulux house paint on Masonite..... and my first exhibition featured some of those early experiments with paint....he was gruff and confrontational and talked like a Harold Pinter script - but always exciting, and an art star before Whiteley....

Lisa French again :

According to Grishin in his book on the artist, in 1968 the newspapers were running headlines such as "The year of Leonard French" and by 1970 he "was at the peak of his popular acclaim and possibly the most public of any Australian artist of his day".
In the latter part of the 1970s he moved to rural Heathcote, withdrawing from the art scene, until a few years ago when he moved back to Brunswick where he was born. While his place in the limelight faded and many assumed him to be dead, he continued his prolific output for another 40 years. He was a much better painter than he has been given credit for (something I have no doubt history will eventually rectify).
The zeitgeist rolls on...


Melbourne Cool : the Legend Café, 1956, with painted panels by Leonard French and interior design by Clement Meadmore.



Leonard French, Iconoclast, 1957 :


His best known work, the stained glass ceiling of the Great Hall 
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He continued to paint. Hannah Francis in today's AGE :

On Tuesday the family displayed a photograph of his last "epic" work, Chaos: a three-panel painting completed in 2004 that features a skeleton walking on a tightrope above a chaotic scene. It has never been exhibited.
"It captures this idea of the cyclical nature of time," says daughter Sarah French. "I have always interpreted the skeleton as a symbolic substitute for dad as the artist, who mocks the darkness below. However his own position is highly precarious – he must carefully maintain his balance lest he should fall and become swept up in the destruction."
Major galleries from Bendigo to Queensland have reportedly resurrected French's works from their store rooms and put them proudly on display after news of his death.
A spokesperson for the National Gallery of Victoria says the gallery has no current plans for a Leonard French retrospective.

Below, Leonard French, Journey of the Sun, 1980
collection Bendigo Art Gallery


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29 January 2017

Let there be sound, and there was sound. AC/DC

 
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Omphalos at the Temple of Apollo, of the Delphi Oracle
   
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Kangaroo Flat, early 1950s 

The man accepts the golden round 

and puts it to his ear 

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27 January 2017

Drawing People :-) The Human Figure in :-[ Contemporary Art :-| by Roger Malbert } {


Drawing People: The Human Figure in Contemporary Art
Published by D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers
Edited and with text by Roger Malbert
Flexibound, 9.5 x 13.5 inches
256 pages, 275 color images
ISBN 9781938922688, 45 USD / 23 GBP / 33 EUR (appx.)
Distributed by ARTBOOK | D.A.P.

Drawing is now back in the spotlight … this book is asserting the importance of drawing in its own right, as an autonomous artform and not a means to an endThe Independent
Invasion Day Melbourne rally draws tens of thousands of protesters :
Tens of thousands of people gathered in Melbourne's CBD for an 'Invasion Day' rally on Thursday. The crowd at Federation Square - estimated by some to be up to 50,000 people - is believed to have eclipsed the number of people who attended the earlier Australia Day march along Swanston Street.
The Age (today)
'Whatever happens on the other side of the draw, I think is great for tennis."  Rafael Nadal
extract writ large in The Age print version (today)
   
Postscript : after midnight at the Australian Open, at four-all in the hard fought fifth set, the Channel 7 commentator exclaims "Nadal draws level.". Nadal then goes on to win, and will play Federer tomorrow in the final.



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26 January 2017

Waddya reckon? Dunno, wadda you reckon?

 
Australia Day | Invasion Day  
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24 January 2017

White Level Cinema (1685-1769)

  

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 White Level Cinema



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23 January 2017

Fish Regard in Australian Art ] The Silverfish Frame (







Lot 397 : "Goldfish" by Charles Wheeler
    
Description :
Charles Wheeler, Goldfish, 1911
oil on canvas
50 x 80 cm
Signed and dated '11 lower right
Original gilt wood and gesso frame

Provenance :
Purchased from the artist 1911
Louis Abraham
Collection of WH Kelly, Fed. Member for Wentworth (1903-1919)
Thence by descent to Daphne May Johnson, Darling Point
Goodmans Fine Art Auctioneers, Monday 14 September 1998
Gould Galleries;Private collection, NSW

Exhibited :
Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings by Charles Wheeler, Guild Hall, Swanston St, Melbourne, 27 April to 6 May 1911, No. 30, "Goldfish", 52 pounds 10 shillings
Athenaeum Hall, 'Paintings of Charles Wheeler' 20 June to 1 July 1922, Melbourne, 1922, catalogue No. 5
National Gallery of Victoria Loan Exhibition of Australian Paintings 1925, catalogue No. 227
VAS Heritage Exhibition, 23 May to 12 June 1985, catalogue No. 132 (illustrated)
Australian National Maritime Museum, 'Fish in Australian Art', 5 April to 1 October 2012

Artist :
Charles Arthur Wheeler OBE, DCM (4 Jan 1881 - 26 Oct 1977) was an Australian painter.
Born in New Zealand, he arrived in Australia in 1892.
He won the Archibald Prize for 1933.
In 1939 he was appointed master of painting at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, Melbourne, Australia.
                               

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22 January 2017

careful wot u mask 4 OK!


'Trump Mask' by Christophe Coppens, from his May 2016 exhibition '50 Masks: Made in America':

         

       
Yesterday, Donald Trump was sworn-in as the 45th President of the United States.
     

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21 January 2017

careful wot u draw 4 OK!

 
drawn by FIAPCE in 2010 :
    

       
Today, Donald Trump was sworn-in as the 45th President of the United States.
 

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20 January 2017

Immured In Self

   
"From this day forward,
a new vision will govern our land."
   
Donald J Trump
45th President of United States
Inauguration Address
  
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19 January 2017

TAR | Miyajima | MCA Young Ambassadors


Memo today from Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney :

A heady synthesis of modern technology, Buddhist philosophy and visceral experience, immerse yourself in Tatsuo Miyajima: Connect with Everything, closing Sunday 5 March.


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Memo today from Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney :

New year, more art – 

MCA Young Ambassador

Is your 2017 all about seeing more art? Good news, culture vulture, we've got the perfect thing for you.



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16 January 2017

TAR NEWS : Trump to Arrest Reformer

       
The writer and theatre reformer W.B. Yeats will give a lecture at Molesworth Hall, Dublin, on the fourteenth of March 1903. Seats may be reserved.



They gave me three seconds to say this, so: An actor’s only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us, and let you feel what that feels like, and there were many, many, many powerful performances that did exactly that: breathtaking, compassionate work. But there was one performances this year that stunned me; it sank its hooks in my heart, not because it was good. There was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job—it made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth.

It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter—someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can’t get it out of my head because it wasn’t in a movie; it was real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing.
      
Meryl Streep, extract from her 2016 Golden Globes acceptance speech

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Donald J. Trump 
@realDonaldTrump

Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes. She is a.....

Hillary flunky who lost big. For the 100th time, I never "mocked" a disabled reporter (would never do that) but simply showed him.......

"groveling" when he totally changed a 16 year old story that he had written in order to make me look bad. Just more very dishonest media!


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15 January 2017

i m a s k i n g u 2 c

   

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We read with interest Tim Keanes recent article 
The Irish for Noh: The Masks of William Butler YeatsHere's an extract :

For Yeats the personae — the Latin word for “masks” — voicing his poems are as meaningful and expressive as the poem’s words. This is why he looked back to ancient Greek models of “sung” verse and why he sought a modern literature in which form and content are indivisible, a quest he immortalized in the famous rhetorical question, “How can we know the dancer from the dance?”

And it is Yeats and dance — not Yeats and poetry — that takes center stage in the multimedia exhibition, Simon Starling: At Twilight (After W.B. Yeats’ Noh Reincarnation) at Japan Society, which explores the Irish poet’s debt to the formalism of Japanese Noh theater.



Mickey Mouse Mirror Mask House 
A persona (plural personae or personas), in the word's everyday usage, is a social role or a character played by an actor. The word is derived from Latin, where it originally referred to a theatrical mask.The Latin word probably derived from the Etruscan word "phersu", with the same meaning, and that from the Greek πρόσωπον (prosōpon). Its meaning in the latter Roman period changed to indicate a "character" of a theatrical performance or court of law, when it became apparent that different individuals could assume the same role, and legal attributes such as rights, powers, and duties followed the role. The same individuals as actors could play different roles, each with its own legal attributes, sometimes even in the same court appearance. According to other sources, which also admit that the origin of the term is not completely clear, persona could possibly be related to the Latin verb per-sonare, literally: sounding through, with an obvious link to the above-mentioned theatrical mask. In the context of the social web, users create virtual persona which are also termed internet or online identities.
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14 January 2017

Theatre of the Antipodean Regard presents : Fake News | THEATRE DU VIDE | No worries mate!

    

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 Dimanche – Le Journal d'un seul jour



 Artist:Yves Klein (French, 1928–1962)
 Date:November 27, 1960 Medium:Halftone and letterpress on newsprint Accession:2013.619 On view in:Not on view (Metropolitan Museum)

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