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.
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"Holy ... holy ...
holy."
] haec sacra mundi /
these sacred things of the world (
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'The Analects of Robin' 
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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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after Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847 – 1915)
present
‘The journalist Fukuichi Gen'ichiro’
from the series : Instructive models of lofty ambition
1885 - 2023 
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Judas betrays Jesus the Logos
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and Peter cuts off Vincent's ear
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Who are You: Australian PortraitureNational Gallery of Victoria | The Ian Potter Centre:
NGV Australia 23 Jun - 1 Aug 2022
Self-portrait
see : First catch your self.
A proverbial warning against overconfidence, often thought to have originated in a recipe for hare soup in Mrs Glasse’s The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (1747) or Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1851). It does not appear in either book, although Mrs Glasse’s book does have the instruction ‘Take your hare when it is cased [=skinned].’ In more general terms, this appears to be a common formulation. The Spirit of Farmers’ Museum (1801) has: ‘How to dress a dolphin, first catch a dolphin.’
A source from a much earlier period, the medieval Latin treatise De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae, traditionally attributed to the lawyer Henry of Bratton, has the sentence, ‘It is commonly said that one must first catch the deer, and afterwards, when he has been caught, skin him.’
The self is an individual as the object of its own reflective consciousness. Since the self is a reference by a subject to the same subject, this reference ...
Self – individuality, from one's own perspective. To each person, self is that ...
memo : A memorandum (abbrev.: memo; from the Latin memorandum est, "It must be remembered") is a written message that is typically used in a professional setting. Commonly abbreviated "memo," these messages are usually brief and are designed to be easily and quickly understood.
Rex writes :
... Equally, in Who Are You, in an insightful and quite moving selection, the curators include John Nixon’s Self Portrait (Non-Objective Composition) (Yellow Cross) (1990) at the entrance to the fourth room of the show. It’s a cross that now serves, of course, as something of a memorial to Nixon, who died in 2020. In fact, we would suggest, after an initial avant-garde moment inspired by Communism and the Russian Suprematists, sometime in the early ’90s Nixon pursued an equally radical “immanence”: his work is not any more about changing the world but preserving it. The one-day shows, the artist-run spaces, the collaborations, the incessant productivity: Nixon’s practice operates as much as anything as a kind of diary that sought to record or better embody the circumstances in which it was originally made and exhibited. It was just the little art world that gathered around it: Melbourne in the ’90s, 2000s, and 2010s. The different dispositions of similar-looking objects were the attempt to hold together a fragile and precarious moment in time, of which Nixon was the centre. And it is exactly in this sense that Nixon’s works are self-portraits or autobiographical, the very image of his life. He just is his work.
But again—and this is perhaps the real memorial that Nixon’s work now represents—the function of art as a record of its time, its place, its people, as any kind of image of who we are, is coming to an end. The true equivalent to Nixon’s work today—think here of someone like Peter Tyndall—is keeping a blog, posting on Instagram or tweeting with its potentially limitless subscribers.
see also : self-portrait as
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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
re. nails in the wall...
Things suspended by strings
for us to see :
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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Josh Bowes has left another drawing on the chair by the front door.
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We are reposting these from juliaciccarone : two of the paintings Julia exhibited via Niagara Galleries at the recent Melbourne Art Fair, along with her Instagram comments.Julia Ciccarone, An Instrument for Seeing, 2021
oil on Dibond
40 x 52cm
An Instrument for Seeing: The ability to pay attention to detail and analyse the activity around you comes with heightened awareness, but this can typically only be achieved during certain states of consciousness. A person who experiences a high level of awareness needs to be more in control of their thoughts.
Julia Ciccarone, The Other World, 2021
oil on Dibond
60 x 70.5cm
The Other World: he has the capacity to remember all the way back to the origins as well as to see all the way into the future. In order to see both ways, however a person must enter the present more fully.
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found meme over 1950s Man Ray photo of Marcel Duchamp
We can't confirm that Duchamp ever said that about ideas, but it did set us to thinking...
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"It was in my mind to say that a portrait should be the image of one spirit received in the mirror of another"
- PORTRAIT IN A MIRROR, Charles Morgan (1933)
Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Archibald Prize, Archie 100 explores the history of Australia’s most prestigious portrait award. The exhibition presents a diverse selection of Archibald portraits from the last century—the triumphant and the thwarted—and honours the artists who have made the prize the most sought-after accolade in Australian art today.
Archie 100 is an Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition.
Geelong Gallery is the exclusive Victorian venue for Archie 100.Archie 100 @ Geelong Gallery until 20 February 2022
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A beautiful person, widely respected and loved.
Hossein Valamanesh, Longing belonging, 1997, Collection AGNSW
A great artist of the world.
Hossein Valamanesh, Breath, 2013, cast bronze, 143 x 140 x 5cm
Condolences to Angela and Nasseim
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Today, on a bridge over the Yarra.
By the Yarra River at Queen's Bridge, Melbourne, surrounded by a large crowd, the artist prepares to liberate himself.
Meanwhile, how the hell...?!
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or
Pointing Portrait at the Peak
collection FIAPCE
Sacred Mountain (Mt. Heap)as
Sacred Image (Signed by Sengai) as
Sacred Regard (TAR)
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"Show me your original face before your mother and father were born."
You cannot describe it, you cannot picture it,You cannot admire it, you cannot sense it.
It is your true self, it has nowhere to hide.
When the world is destroyed, it will not be
destroyed.
- Mumon, The Gateless Gate #23 (1288)
Do Not Think Good, Do Not Think Not-Good
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2021 is the 100th year of the Art Gallery of New South Wales' Archibald Prize for portraiture.
From the 6000 portraits exhibited as finalists over the past century, cold case detectives at AGNSW have identified 100 of these for a Portrait of the Nation two year Tour of Shame : Archie 100
AAA : Art Archive Australia
"There are eight million stories in the naked city. This is one of them."
- NAKED CITY (1958-1963)
Signed Confession :
"It was in my mind to say that a portrait should be the image of one spirit received in the mirror of another"
- PORTRAIT IN A MIRROR, Charles Morgan (1933)
Suspended Sentence : TAR co-portrait (-1991-)
Known Associates :
2018.03 Michael Buxton and Charles Justin
collection : Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne
Last seen :
Art Gallery of New South Wales
5 June – 26 September 2021
Geelong Gallery
6 November 2021 – 20 February 2022
Cairns Art Gallery
18 March – 12 June 2022
Art Gallery of South Australia
9 July – 2 October 2022
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
24 October 2022 – 8 January 2023
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
26 January – 26 March 2023
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
15 April – 25 June 2023
Home of the Arts, Gold Coast
15 July – 2 October 2023
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
21 October 2023 – 28 January 2024
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