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.


25 October 2018

Then, let us paint the see.


Thanks to Jeff, overseas with paintings, for ...

It is better to go to the beach and think about painting than it is to be painting and thinking about going to the beach.
 - Agnes Martin


 Albert Tucker 
 At Sorrento, Sidney Nolan Buried, John Reed, Sunday Reed, 
    and Joy Hester, Pregnant 
 1944 
 gelatin silver photograph 
 30.2 x 40.2 cm 
 Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 
 Gift of Barbara Tucker 2001


 Sidney Nolan
 Abstract (St Kilda Reflections) 
1939
 enamel on board
 19 x 27 cm
 Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
 Gift of Barrett Reid 1993
 © Sidney Nolan Trust
  

 Bathers
 1942
 Sidney NOLAN
 enamel paint on cardboard
 64.0 × 76.2 cm
 painted at Dimboola, Victoria
 inscribed in brown paint l.c.: 
    BATHERS / 6. 12.42. N (N reversed).
 inscribed in black chalk on reverse l.l.: 
    Nolan (an underlined) / 1942
  
FIAPCE  
 detail
 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
 LOGOS/HA HA