The Field Revisted

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

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

   
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Divákům TAR

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 Emil Filla
 Diváci (viewers, spectators), 1912
 oil on canvas, 48 × 58 cm
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From the matrix of TAR, learn of ...

Following on from the previous post with it's essay first paragraph by MB, headed For those who know how to look, today it's the first paragraph of John Wolseley's essay of introduction to his forthcoming

exhibition at Australia Galleries, Melbourne. 

When the full essay becomes available online next week, we'll provide a link to it here.

 JOHN WOLSELEY 

The Life of Inland Waters 

EXHIBITION ESSAY

As a small boy, I was inordinately interested in insects, animals and reptiles. At the age of six, I spent so many hours watching lizards on a decayed walnut stump that my father contacted a child psychologist. I never knew what he reported but whatever it was it cannot have been helped by my saying that I didn’t much like being human, and very much desired to become a lizard. As I grew up, I became more and more interested in trying to look at the world through the eyes of creatures other than myself, and was helped in this by a series of obsessions with certain writers and philosophers. This included Basho who wrote, From the pine tree, learn of the pine; And from the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. 

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 BEETLES IN THE SALT – LAKE TYRRELL 2014-18
 watercolour and etching on paper, 130cm x 220cm, AG11129

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none so blind as those who will not see

Proverb
Understanding cannot be forced on someone who chooses to be ignorant. 

1546, J. Heywood
          Who is so deafe, or so blynde, as is hee, 
          That wilfully will nother here nor see

1547, Borde Brev. of Helthe, bk ii fo. vi
          Who is blynder than he yt wyl nat se

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 Exhibition: ‘Brassaï’ at Fundación MAPFRE, Barcelona 

 Posted by Marcus Bunyan at Art Blart. The article  begins...

 For those who know how to look

 Not everyone can see. It takes a great eye and a great mind,   and the liberation of that mind, to be able to transform the   mundane, the everyday, the vernacular - into art. ...

 ( for the full article of text and photos click HERE )

 Brassaï (Gyulá Halász, 1899 – 1984)
 Picasso Tenant Une De Les Sculptures
 Picasso Holding One Of The Sculptures
 1939
 © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris

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ME | YOU REGARDING GIRL AND BOY WATCHING ME PAINT

at d+h auction tonight :

Lot 100

DANILA VASSILIEFF

(1897 – 1958)

GIRL AND BOY WATCHING ME PAINT, 1949

oil on composition board

45.5 x 42.0 cm

signed upper right: Vassilieff

ESTIMATE: 

$8,000 – 12,000

ProvenancE

Private collection
Christie’s, Melbourne, 26 August 1997, lot 22 (as ‘Children Watching Me Paint, Fitzroy, c.1948’) 
Private collection, Melbourne

EXHIBITED

Paintings and Sculpture, a joint exhibition with Elizabeth Vassilieff, Tye’s Gallery, Melbourne, April 1949          

0il Paintings by Danila Vassilief, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, November 1978, cat. 64

LITERATURE

Moore, F. St J., Vassilief and His Art, Macmillan, Melbourne, 2012, cat. p264, p. 156

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Fabric of Regard | Don't eat the yellow snow

 LOT 13 : information

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Found

 Foundation Picture Club

 10.30am, Monday 16 April 2018

 Join us and our expert Gallery Guides for your monthly 
 adventure through art. Meet us at the Gallery reception before 
 proceeding through to gain a deeper insight into one of our 
 current exhibitions. After an informative walk through with 
 stimulating discussion, enjoy coffee and tea in the Foundation 
 room.

 ARTWORK CREDITS
 Headline image - Unknown Land Opening Foundation Event

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INK WHY RE.

Who is the Red Actor?

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Masks of TAR (Le rédacteur|Red Actor)

How a common six-pack 
street redactor
mask

 -2017-  

transformed into
the renomée of reknown
Red Actor

 -2018-  

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Melbourne Comedy Art Festival

TAR 

presents 

Frocking Clouds

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TAR : towards a transfiguration of the regard of the LOGOS/HA HA

Figurative art

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational. The term is often in contrast to abstract art:

Since the arrival of abstract art the term figurative has been used to refer to any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world.^[1]

Painting and sculpture can therefore be divided into the categories of figurative, representational and abstract, although, strictly speaking, abstract art is derived (or abstracted) from a figurative or other natural source. However, "abstract" is sometimes used as a synonym for non-representational art and non-objective art, i.e. art which has no derivation from figures or objects.

Figurative art is not synonymous with figure painting (art that represents the human figure), although human and animal figures are frequent subjects.

figuration

ˌfɪɡəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/

noun

1. 1.

   ornamentation by means of figures or designs.

   • 
     
2. 2.

   allegorical representation.

   
   

   "the figuration of ‘The Possessed’ is much more complex"

transfiguration

transˌfɪɡəˈreɪʃ(ə)n,trɑːnsˌfɪɡəˈreɪʃ(ə)n,transˌfɪɡjʊreɪʃ(ə)n,trɑːnsˌfɪɡjʊreɪʃ(ə)n,tranzˌfɪɡəˈreɪʃ(ə)n,trɑːnzˌfɪɡəˈreɪʃ(ə)n,tranzˌfɪɡjʊˈreɪʃ(ə)n,trɑːnzˌfɪɡjʊˈreɪʃ(ə)n/

noun

1. a complete change of form or appearance into a more beautiful or spiritual state.

   
   

   "in this light the junk undergoes a transfiguration; it shines"

   • Christ's appearance in radiant glory to three of his disciples (Matthew 17:2 and Mark 9:2–3).

     noun: Transfiguration; noun: the Transfiguration
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mathew 17:1-3 (KJV)

17 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,

2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.

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