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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What should I do next?
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Next I must find out my sins
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(Guardian Angel Looks At My Soul)
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(Guardian Angel Looks At Lucio Fontana's
Concetto spaziale, La Fine di Dio, 1963)
Lucio Fontana :
Spacial Concept, The End of Godclick here for further reading about this
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Tonight's ABC TV news described this Anzac long-weekend's AFL results as
A Round of Upsets.
Taking this as their choreographic impulse, a junior troupe from Theatre of the Actors of Looking will tonight perform
840 rounds as scripted and depicted below.
AFL ANZAC ROUND 5
The Four Upsets
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Demons defeat Lions
upset234
Kangaroos defeat Hawks
1upset34
Power defeat Saints
12upset4
Blues defeat Cats
123upset
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bLOGOS/HA HA notes with interest reports that a Catholic German bishop has resigned for hitting children.
Hamburg : German Catholic bishop, Walter Mixa, who has been accused of caning and punching teenaged orphans, has handed in his resignation under pressure from fellow bishops, a newspaper reported late Wednesday.
Deutsche Presse _ 21 April 2010
This article in today's Age :
German bishop resigns for hitting children
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In two days Australia observes Anzac Day : "Lest We Forget".
bL recalls, too. Four years in a Marist Brothers boarding college, with daily-bread canings and occasional bashings. The most memorable of these was also the most perverse.
9a.m. : our class is told to sit straight and face the front as a white-with-rage 'brother' sets about bashing one of our number. He has just overheard this student's low demur of "Oooooh" as the Loud Speaker announced throughout this Month of the Blessed Virgin we will commence each day's lessons with a saying of the rosary. The punched, kicked and bloodied offender is then sent away ~ "Now get out!" ~ as we remain to pray.
Hail Mary, full of grace.
Our Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
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This 1968 POW genre drawthing was made in the final months at that place.
("You'll be in trouble if they find it.")
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Melbourne hosts an International Drawthing Conference and many drawthing exhibitions during April - June.
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Click here for the full program. )
One of these is
A Common Language: Drawings by Acton and BouretThe promotional image features a Model of Regard
in need of reading glasses.
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In the light of the recent Wynne Prize stir (
article here) around Sam Leach's Dutch/Italian/Australian landscape painthing,
Proposal for Landscaped Cosmos, it is interesting to note, according to
Wikipedia, the origin of the word un-Australian.
In modern usage, it has similar connotations to the US term un-American, however the Australian term is somewhat older, being used as early as 1855 to describe an aspect of the landscape that was similar to that of Britain.
And so it is with great pleasure
un-Australian L---Scape Unvieled
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'Tis no idle boast, but the truth we tell,
When we claim for the your claim here
A stainless name and a deathless fame
So long as the round World moves.
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As discussion continues (
here) about the Trustees of the AGNSW awarding the Wynne Prize, for "the best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours", to Sam Leach's
Proposal for Landscaped Cosmos, his reworking of a 1668 'Dutch' depiction of an 'Italian' moment ...
... here's a timely old favorite from the heap. The original regard of this, hereabouts, a V&A postcard. Verso, it is labelled thus :
Artist copying a European print on to glass.
Watercolour on paper.
China (Canton); about 1790.
34.1 x 41.5.
FE 175
D.107-1898.Our artist-in-residence editioned a set of these in the mid 1980s.
All hands that will, to the wheel.
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le bLOG qui rit previously presented the plight of a Heidelberg artist attempting to render Australian landscape with a cow breathing down his neck.
Minus the bothersome cow, a similar scene greets us today on the front page of THE AGE (Melbourne).
The newspaper's headline writer has had fun too:
Double Dutch as our Sam paints
it again to take Wynne prize
"You painted it for her, you can paint it for me!" - bL
Turns out that Sam Leach's winning work in the Art Gallery of NSW's 2010 Wynne Prize for ...
"the best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours or for the best example of figure sculpture by Australian artists completed during the 12 months preceding the [closing] date"
is a reworking of a 1668 paint
hing by Dutch artist Adam Pynacker.
Is this a problem? Consider and discuss.
1. Look at the paint
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2. Read the Label
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3. Consider your verdict
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bLOGOS/HA HA recalls the above TV news item correctly, art critic John McDonald made no mention of any problematic copyness attaching to this paint
hing when he addressed the Australian people immediately after the Wynne Prize announcement.
Today he addresses the cosmos again. On TV news; on the net, with a prime-ministerial chat from the study
( video here )and quoted in THE AGE
article, where he concludes :
''I don't think Sam is really the villain here. I think it's the judges who are culpable for making a rather silly decision … It is an embarrassment for the art gallery. It shows up how little judgment they showed.''
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Researchers, travellers, students . . .
click on the images below to enlargeAdventures of a Heidelberg Artist
lithographie artistique
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