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.


30 April 2021

Instruments of the Passion : Giotto and the abstract broom of TAR

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28 April 2021

Instruments of the Passion : abstract broom of TAR


 -2020- above  -2021 below  
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26 April 2021

Instruments of the Passion : brushed brush and ...



  Yosa Buson ( 1716 - 1784)                                collection FIAPCE

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25 April 2021

Anzac Day at MCG : 78,000 see Bombers sweep Magpies

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22 April 2021

Medium : Oils ain't oils.


  
  Theory: Taking A Closer Look At Profit
   Date: 08/08/2019


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18 April 2021

scratching an itch


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16 April 2021

TAR AGSA Members

  
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Members

Guide to the Gallery   

Wed 5 May & Sat 8 May
10.30am or 11.30am

Twice a month Gallery Guides present a members-only tour on different topics. Join our Guides in May as they tour Beckett in Context: Works by her female contemporaries.


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13 April 2021

'Fallingwater' ideogram


sky
fire
water 
earth

Some things, long present, only appear when we're ready to see them: Frank Lloyd Wright's ceiling light design for the dining room of 'Fallingwater'.

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12 April 2021

Outjet!


Watching 'Call My Agent' (S 1 Ep 2) : A novel proposal is put to the director; a long pause, then a smile as he declares Outjet! Not knowing the meaning of that word, but understanding it signifies approval, the agents raise their glasses in a  toast. Well, then... Outjet!


Being Antipodean, we toast instead Colin McCahon's 'Jet out' series and do some quick ideo-outjet drawings.  

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Outjet?
Watching
 "Call My Agent" on Netflix (French series), and there was a scene where a group was toasting and they all said "Outjet." It's spelled that way in the subtitles. Had never heard this before, and my google search is coming up blank.

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Native here (Belgium/France), I have absolutely no idea what that could possibly mean. I have never heard something similar.
When we are toasting, we say "santé !", "tchin (tchin) !" or "à la vôtre !".

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I came here with the same question, and I think I've figured it out. In the subtitles, the word is written in italics. Since the director's name is Gabor Rajevsky (or something)
and he doesn't speak much, I'm guessing he's not French, and "outjet" is a word in his first language, which they all repeat.

We can find only one dictionary definition. Perfect match!

Outjet

owt′jet, n. that which projects from anything
n. Outjut′ting, a projection

- Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

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09 April 2021

Prospect : TAR Non-fungible Tokens


a  d  v  e  r  t  i  s  e  m  e  n  t
TAR : The Fungible Collection 
A novel collection of digital art redefining our understanding of value

Open Editions

Open Edition  Price Per Unit $500

Day 1  1:00-1:15pm ET
Day 2  1:00-1:15pm ET
Day 3  1:00-1:15pm ET

TAR Fungible Open Editions is a further investigation of our understanding of value. TAR Fungible Open Editions will enable collectors to purchase as many fungible TAR cubes as they wish during the sale period for a fixed price. These fungible TAR cubes can be purchased individually or many at a time, and will deliver its collector a different set of NFTs based on the total TAR cubes they own.

The individual NFTs are: A TAR Cube (1), Five TAR Cubes (5), Ten TAR Cubes (10), Twenty TAR Cubes (20), Fifty TAR Cubes (50), Hundred TAR Cubes (100), Five Hundred TAR Cubes (500), Thousand TAR Cubes (1,000).

Examples:
Collector purchases 1 TAR cube, they will receive a single NFT: “A TAR Cube”.

Collector purchases 6 TAR cubes, they will receive 2 NFTs: “Five TAR Cubes” and “A TAR Cube”, summing up to 6 cubes in fungible value.

Collector purchases 26 TAR cubes, they will receive 3 NFTs: “Twenty TAR Cubes”, “Five TAR Cubes” and “A TAR Cube” summing up to 26 TAR cubes in fungible value.

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Complexity

Edition of 100  Reserved

The growth of NFTs has proven the extraordinary value that emerges from closer relationships between collector and creator. Complexity is a collection of 100 NFTs that will be given to the following 100 individuals who purchase the most Open Edition TAR cubes by the end of Day 3.

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Edition of 1  Reserved

The TAR Cube is a unique, “one-of-one” NFT that will be given to the individual who purchases the most Open Edition TAR cubes by the end of Day 3.

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Non-fungible Tokens

Every asset for sale in TAR : The Fungible Collection is a non-fungible token (NFT). Though relatively new even in the realm of blockchain technology, NFTs represent a paradigm shift not only in the world of digital art, but in the world of art and media generally.

NFTs are unique digital assets with verifiable scarcity. The novelty of online scarcity cannot be overstated. For the entire history of the internet, scarcity has been impossible to determine. Content flowed freely, but it flowed too freely for anyone to confidently keep track of when artwork or written media was created, distributed, owned, shared, or purchased. NFTs are revolutionising online media, starting with artwork. 

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06 April 2021

Charles Nodrum - 50 years today


We first noticed Charles Nodrum in the early 1970s, as the serious young apprentice to Joseph Brown. 

Joseph Brown Gallery, 5 Collins Street, Melbourne (1967-1976)

Today marks the fiftieth year of Charles' own significant contribution to the cultural life of Melbourne.


    Charles Nodrum Gallery
    267 Church Street, Richmond VIC 3121
    03 9427 0140
    www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au
    Tues to Sat 11am - 6pm.


Below, Charles Nodrum, director, and daughter Kate, gallery manager.


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01 April 2021

Ramshead Revisited


An online sale in Bonhams' Fine Books & Manuscripts department this week featured a Georgia O’Keeffe skull of a Rocky Mountain Bighorn ram from Ghost Ranch, which sold for $15,300, well over its estimate of $5,000 to $7,000.
Lot 33. Skull of a Rocky Mountain Bighorn ram, complete with curled horns and portions of first vertebra, approximately 270 x 210 x 120 mm, desiccated, with minor active chipping and flaking.
Provenance: Georgia O'Keeffe; gifted to: Marilyn Thuma (a.k.a. Mym Tuma, recorded in her manuscript diary, July 1971).
Clearly reminiscent of Ram's Head, White Hollyhock Hills, this ram's head was presented to Tuma on July 22nd, 1971, during a sixteen day stay at Ghost Ranch, as recorded in her contemporary sketch diary, as "Ram's head in Studio." She would later add to the reminiscence, "She offered me a skull on the Ghost Ranch patio that I noticed had a bullet hole in it thinking I might like it in remembrance of her, a memento. I said, 'No, I could not take anything that died by trauma' so she took me into her studio and showed me this beautiful skull which I own that she said hung on her house above the gate for 30 years — 'A long time,' O'Keeffe said, 'It's brittle.'"
O'Keeffe's association with the ram's head is etched into our understanding of her — beginning with her iconic 1935 painting Ram's Head, White Hollyhock Hills. The ram's head would figure in a number of her works, but never so effectively. In 1968, photographer Arnold Newman captured O'Keeffe in front of another ram's head, reinforcing the association. In a way, they are the distillation of O'Keeffe's experience of New Mexico.
"When I found the beautiful white bones on the desert I picked them up and took them home too ... I have used these things to say what is to me the wilderness and wonder of the world as I live in it." The skulls for O'Keefe represent not death, but life, "The bones seem to cut sharply to the centre of something that is keenly alive ... even though it is vast and empty and untouchable—and knows no kindness with all its beauty" ("About Myself," essay in the exhibition catalogue for An American Place, 1939).


As kids, we had a pet lamb, Patrick, who soon became Patrick the head-butting ram. When he eventually died, we dropped his body into an old mine shaft out the back. Years later, I brought up his magnificent horned skull.


  As contemporary artist : with Patrick in the studio at Fosterville, 1972
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