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.


01 May 2018

Changing The Way We See Art


NGV WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION ANNUAL SEMINAR 2018
INFLUENCERS : 

THE PEOPLE CHANGING THE WAY WE SEE ART
WITH HOST ALI MOORE

WED 23 MAY, 9.30AM–12.30PM
NGV INTERNATIONAL
CLEMENGER BBDO AUDITORIUM (ENTER NORTH ENTRANCE, VIA ARTS CENTRE FORECOURT)
GROUND LEVEL


BOOK NOW 

Every year, the NGV Women’s Association Seminar focuses on a collection area of the NGV. In 2018, Australian journalist and broadcaster Ali Moore will lead a panel of Australia’s most influential art leaders as they discuss the changing ways we see art, both what we view and how we see it. This event will allow you to hear insights into the often provocative and always stimulating Australian art scene. Join Ali and this dynamic group of influencers from the art world for an illuminating morning.

Anita Archer – Art Consultant and PhD Researcher of Global Art Markets
Jane Clark – Senior Research Curator of MONA
Adrian Doyle – Director of Blender Studios and Melbourne Street Art Tours
Charles Justin – Director of Justin Art House Museum
Simon Mordant AM – Chair of Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and philanthropist
Professor Sally Smart – Artist and current Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne


 Yayoi Kusama 
 Flower obsession 2017 (detail). 
 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. 
 Purchased, NGV Women’s Association, 2017 
 © Yayoi Kusama, Yayoi Kusama Studio Inc., 
     courtesy OTA Fine Arts, Tokyo.

Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
 LOGOS/HA HA



29 April 2018

The Field Revisted



 Michael Johnson and John Peart discuss The Mooch by fellow
 participant Dick Watkins : The Field, National Gallery of Victoria
 photo Daily Telegraph
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 1968-2018 : White Art Cult family revisits The Field.
 NGV AUSTRALIA until 26 August 
   
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
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28 April 2018

Divákům TAR



Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
 Emil Filla
 Diváci (viewers, spectators), 1912

 oil on canvas, 48 × 58 cm
 © Galerie výtvarného umění v Chebu

 photo: © GAVU Cheb


 detail
 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
 LOGOS/HA HA


26 April 2018

From the matrix of TAR, learn of ...


Following on from the previous post with it's essay first paragraph by MB, headed For those who know how to look, today it's the first paragraph of John Wolseley's essay of introduction to his forthcoming
exhibition at Australia Galleries, Melbourne. 

When the full essay becomes available online next week, we'll provide a link to it here.

 JOHN WOLSELEY 
The Life of Inland Waters 

EXHIBITION ESSAY

As a small boy, I was inordinately interested in insects, animals and reptiles. At the age of six, I spent so many hours watching lizards on a decayed walnut stump that my father contacted a child psychologist. I never knew what he reported but whatever it was it cannot have been helped by my saying that I didn’t much like being human, and very much desired to become a lizard. As I grew up, I became more and more interested in trying to look at the world through the eyes of creatures other than myself, and was helped in this by a series of obsessions with certain writers and philosophers. This included Basho who wrote, From the pine tree, learn of the pine; And from the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. 


detail | click for full image  
 BEETLES IN THE SALT – LAKE TYRRELL 2014-18
 watercolour and etching on paper, 130cm x 220cm, AG11129


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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
 LOGOS/HA HA


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23 April 2018

none so blind as those who will not see


Proverb
Understanding cannot be forced on someone who chooses to be ignorant. 

1546, J. Heywood
          Who is so deafe, or so blynde, as is hee, 
          That wilfully will nother here nor see

1547, Borde Brev. of Helthe, bk ii fo. vi
          Who is blynder than he yt wyl nat se


FIAPCE 
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
 LOGOS/HA HA

____________________________________________


 Posted by Marcus Bunyan at Art Blart. The article  begins...

 For those who know how to look
 Not everyone can see. It takes a great eye and a great mind,   and the liberation of that mind, to be able to transform the   mundane, the everyday, the vernacular - into art. ...
 ( for the full article of text and photos click HERE )

 Brassaï (Gyulá Halász, 1899 – 1984)
 Picasso Tenant Une De Les Sculptures
 Picasso Holding One Of The Sculptures

 1939
 © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
 LOGOS/HA HA


18 April 2018

ME | YOU REGARDING GIRL AND BOY WATCHING ME PAINT


at d+h auction tonight :

Lot 100
DANILA VASSILIEFF
(1897 – 1958)
GIRL AND BOY WATCHING ME PAINT, 1949
oil on composition board
45.5 x 42.0 cm
signed upper right: Vassilieff

ESTIMATE: 
$8,000 – 12,000


ProvenancE
Private collection
Christie’s, Melbourne, 26 August 1997, lot 22 (as ‘Children Watching Me Paint, Fitzroy, c.1948’) 
Private collection, Melbourne
EXHIBITED
Paintings and Sculpture, a joint exhibition with Elizabeth Vassilieff, Tye’s Gallery, Melbourne, April 1949          
0il Paintings by Danila Vassilief, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, November 1978, cat. 64
LITERATURE
Moore, F. St J., Vassilief and His Art, Macmillan, Melbourne, 2012, cat. p264, p. 156
Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
 LOGOS/HA HA


17 April 2018

Fabric of Regard | Don't eat the yellow snow



 LOT 13 : information

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
 LOGOS/HA HA


16 April 2018

Found




 10.30am, Monday 16 April 2018

 Join us and our expert Gallery Guides for your monthly 
 adventure through art. Meet us at the Gallery reception before 
 proceeding through to gain a deeper insight into one of our 
 current exhibitions. After an informative walk through with 
 stimulating discussion, enjoy coffee and tea in the Foundation 
 room.

 ARTWORK CREDITS
 Headline image - Unknown Land Opening Foundation Event


Theatre of the Actors of Regard 
 detail
 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
 LOGOS/HA HA



14 April 2018

INK WHY RE.


Who is the Red Actor?


FIAPCE 
 detail
 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
 LOGOS/HA HA


   

13 April 2018

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The RedActor of TAR 
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Theatre of the Actors of Regard 
 detail
 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
 LOGOS/HA HA