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.
Cy Twombly moved to Italy from the USA in 1957.
His ‘Poems to the Sea’ suite of twenty-four drawings were executed in a single day in 1959.
Twombly lived north of Rome at Bassano in Teverina. “Downstream from the city centre, not far away from the Tiber, lies Lake Vadimo, locally known as the "Pond", described by Pliny the Younger as "a lying wheel with a regular circumference [...] paler, greener and more intense than the sea." - Wikipedia
At the 1988 Venice Biennale he exhibited paintings responding to the Bassano in Teverina “Pond” along with unpainted plaster sculptures. Henry Weatherfield chanced upon that exhibition just hours before leaving Venice, that one time visit. “Paler, greener and more intense than the sea is the see", he later wrote.
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This makuri (unmounted/dis-mounted scroll work) is by the master printer-painter Masanobu Okumura (1686-1764). We cannot see the head the face the eyes the mind of the depicted samurai figure, so to caption the scene 'secretive samurai sees the see' would be speculative and limited.
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We can note, at least, the rolling white-capped see script and, formally quite different, the angular white-caped cover of the samurai. Co-existing.
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Joseph Beuys at Sandycove urinal lookout, Eyeland, 1974
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Sotheby's recently auctioned Sandro Botticelli's 1480
'Young Man Holding a Roundel'.
We like that work very much, the round and rectangular formalities, the staged depth, the two diverting outward gazers, and more. Here, though, we're interested in two of Sotheby's own images. The Image is Shown to the Crowd and The Kill.
First, House Supporters (their mouths COVID covered) [LOGOS, the muffled Speaking into Being of the Image] display the Image to the breath-masked mob. Behold!
Scene two, The Kill, in which the determinaTAR poses in collage, ready for the money shot.
In his hands, his Instruments of the Passion.
We recognise his pose and the godly lineage proposed. Descendant of Zeus, the god of the sky, lightning and thunder, ruler of all the gods on Mount Olympus. If not the sky god, then it is Poseidon, god of the See. Poised, ready to project his thunderbolt (Zeus) or trident (Poseidon).
Sold, for $92 million!
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During COVID lockdown, we've been re-reading some Australian art criticism.
John McDonald, 'A hollow, self-conscious laugh'
SMH : 21 November 1987
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lightning and the moon --
two views,
and a third
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Shirō Inoue (1742 - 1812) and Tani Bunchō (1763 - 1841)
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The Feed (2019)
Roy Lichtenstein (1961)
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With Victoria in COVID-19 Second Wave lockdown, today, an inmate of Collingwood sent us this link to some D T Suzuki thoughts regarding "waveringly".
A huge firefly,
Waveringly,
Passes by.
- Issa (Blyth)
I did but see
Her
Passing by,
- Menzies
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Le Vide : regard of a photograph of a detail of an exhibition by Yves Klein at Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, April 1958from an ABC News report yesterday :
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The term subitism points to sudden awakening, the idea that insight into Buddha-nature, or the nature of mind, is "sudden," c.q. "in one glance," "uncovered all together," or "together, completely, simultaneously," in contrast to "successively or being uncovered one after the other." It may be posited as opposite to gradualism, the original Buddhist approach which says that following the dharma can be achieved only step by step, through an arduous practice. Wikipedia
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Susie, our hard-working Assistant Editor
likes to spar with Appearance & Illusion.
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Ricky Swallow
BORROWED SCULPTURES
Rocking Chair with Rope (Meditation Chair #1)
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We were delighted to receive this communique of meta-regard from the Ian Potter Museum of Art :
Dr Kyla McFarlane contemplates the act of staring at the work The Coat, taking time with it rather than just glancing at it; allowing oneself to get lost in the detail, experiencing each element of the composition as well as the impact of the work in its entirety.
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Gray's Anatomy (1858)
gaze anaTARmy
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