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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TAR street parade (-2015-) with Andrea Lindsay.
Below, with Susie and passer-by self-porTARist
photos by Lisa Gervasoni
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TAR : Travel_Act_Rest (-1979-)
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‘The Persecution and Assassination of Pierre Bonnard as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of TAR Under the Direction of the Marquis de TAR’, usually shortened to Bonnard/TAR (pronounced : bon-ah-TAR), after a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.
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presentsMark of the Year (1960)
Awarded to Elena Palumbo-Mosca
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Trends in Aussie Rules
Towards Anthropometric Registration
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Krzysztof Kieślowski Three Colours : Red - 1994 -
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Today is the last day of PETER TYNDALL : SINCLAIR+GALLERY at Castlemaine Art Museum.
Heartfelt thanks to all of CAM’s dedicated staff and volunteers : to director Naomi Cass who proposed this exhibition, to Jenny Long invaluable curator consultant, Nell Fraser, Sarah Frazer, Anna Schwann, Deb Peart, Libby English, Noel Hourigan, James McArdle, to Giles Fielke and Memo.
Best wishes to Gabrielle Martin whose own Sinclair Gallery exhibition opens on 29 July.
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The TOOTS! are getting bigger. For the past three and a half years, Rural Australians for Refugees has held a 5pm Friday 30 minute vigil at one of Daylesford’s two main roundabouts. This evening :
From 1983 : IN SOLIDARIDAD CON LAS REFUGIADOS, Daylesford Embroidered Banners in support of refugees from El Salvador Theatre of Aktion for Refugees
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Today, Geoff Parr's 1967 photographs of Two Decades of American Art installed at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
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Today, Barnett Newman.
TARist regards Barnett Newman's 'The Third' at 'Two Decades of
American Art', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1967
photo Geoff Parr
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Today, Ellsworth Kelly.
Above, in his Broad Street studio, New York, 1956.
His first exhibition, at Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, 1956.
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Following on from the previous Instruments of the Passion post
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Mark Rothko in his studio (1964) with his moveable White Wall props and adjustable hanging wires. Photos by Hans Namuth.
Mark Rothko and an installation of his suspended paintings at Betty Parsons Gallery, New York :
Mark Rothko's studio as represented in the John Logan play "Red" (2009) :
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