Saturday 29 December 2012


 

Katharine in an interview with Clive James, 1985.

123artblog:

i always wanted to dress up like fullbody as an leopard and go to moma and have photo fun in front of artworks with my twin..

i always wanted to dress up like fullbody as an leopard and go to moma and have photo fun in front of artworks with my twin..



Mark Melvin
Good Morning, 2005
‘Sunday’ features a range of installation pieces in which Melvin examines the human condition through the lens of popular culture. Using wit and wordplay, Melvin reappropriates familiar songs and idioms to explore time, repetition, and the cyclical nature of cultural stimulation and communication.

Mark Melvin
Good Morning, 2005



Sunday 14 October 2012

all the way from there to here

all the way from there to here
Jack Gilbert
Jack Gilbert






I Know What You’re Thinking I’m Secretly A Republican, I Secretly Don’t Vote, Alfie ljuljdjuraj, 2012

 Alfie ljuljdjuraj,
I Know What You’re Thinking I’m Secretly A Republican, I Secretly Don’t Vote, 2012





animationsmears:

“Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines” (1969)
“Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines” (1969)















Marco Barbon





via my funny eye,


Saturday 6 October 2012

New Palette


Plumb 
Mistook the cause for the effect 
I look at them earnestly studying the names, checking what's the difference between a pictogram and an aeroplane




Friday 5 October 2012

Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild

A few delicious little abstract numbers by Richter, the great.
Found here from his 1982 exhibition

Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings 1976 to 1981

Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany 
June 03, 1982 – June 26, 1982



  • Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings 
  • 1976
  • 26 cm x 23 cm
  • Oil on canvas




  • Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings 
  • 1977
  • 250 cm x 200 cm
  • Oil on canvas
  • Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings 
  • 1977
  • 60 cm x 42 cm
  • Oil on canvas
  • Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings 
  • 1977
  • 78 cm x 52 cm
  • Oil on canvas
  • Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings 
  • 1976
  • 65 cm x 60 cm
  • Oil on canvas


Saturday 26 May 2012

gesso sketches

snatches of influence



sneak peek at the research files











Saturday 19 May 2012

JAMR Sketches

oil and house paint on mdf
pages from the project sketchbooks



Wednesday 16 May 2012

Studies for Chapter 27

Three studies for the Mirror chapter. Trying my hand at a loose allegory. Struggling with how much detail to include.

Tuesday 15 May 2012

Schloss Schönnbrunn - Johann Wenzel Bergl

Crown Prince Apartment, suite of rooms with exotic and native landscapes.

 Walls and ceilings at the Schloss Schönnbrunn palace in Austria are covered in wild and exotic landscapes, commissioned by Empress Maria Theresa and executed by Johann Wenzel Bergl around 1766.
In 4 garden rooms on the ground floor of Schönbrunn palace Bohemian Baroque painter Johann Wenzl Bergl (1718-1783) expressed Empress Maria Theresia’s fondness for exotic art, her longing for an idyllic world far away from the court´s etiquette and for Rousseau´s “back to nature” philosophy. In his “Indian landscapes” he mixed three-dimensionality with wild, untamed nature. His fantastic frescos bring India to Schönbrunn; the walls are decorated with palm trees and exotic plants, colorful parrots fly under tropic skies. These wall paintings, which were created around 1777, were rediscovered under a layer of paint in the year 1891. They are a document of the Habsburgs´ interest in exploring foreign cultures. Bergl modelled his paintings on exact drawings of the exotic fauna and flora discovered on scientific expeditions. via rococo revisited


I love how over the top these walls are. The whole history of wall design seems to be encompassed in there, from the triumph of ornamental design around the doors and trimmings, to the adventure panoramique that was popular at the time. 

detail
Kronprinzenappartement

Goess Apartment, the summer apartments of Empress Maria Theresa

Sunday 13 May 2012

A Journey Around my Room - 25 & 16 sketches



You can train the human beast to play the harpsichord; and when it is trained by a good master, the soul can travel at perfect ease...converseley, it is impossible to paint even the simplest thing in the world unless the soul deploys all its faculties to the task.
Wretched Girl! Didn't you know that Raphael had announced he would paint a picture even finer than the transfiguration? Were you not aware that you were holding in your arms nature's favourite?


-old XdM

Friday 4 May 2012

A Journey Around my Room - Day 12


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-Xavier de Maistre

A Journey around My Room - Day 5


One you've left my armchair, walking towards the north, you come into view of my bed, which is placed in the far end of the room... It is situated in the most pleasant spot imaginable: the first rays of the sun come to disport themselves on my bed curtains... 
Is there any theatre which arouses the imagination more, or awakens more tender ideas, than this pieceof furniture in which I sometimes loose myself? 
A bed witnesses our birth and death; it is the unvarying theatre in which the human race acts out, successively, its captivating dramas, laughable farces, and dreadful tragedies. 
-Xavier de Maistre

Thursday 3 May 2012

A Journey around my Room, Day 2




Sneak Peek


What a grand resource this way of travelling will be for the sick! They won't need to fear the inclemency of the air and the seasons. - As for the cowardly, they will be safe from robbers; they will encounter neither precipices nor quagmires... 
Would even the most indolent of men hesitate to set off with me in search of a pleasure that will cost them neither effort nor money?... 
So buck up then: Let's be off.... 
Let the lazy arise en masse!... 
We will travel in short marches, laughing all along the way!
-Xavier de Maistre

Tuesday 1 May 2012

Saturday 28 April 2012

Map Symbols

Been thinking about traditional forms of representation in maps. How block colour, symbolism and line converge to create an understandable topography.
On my journey around the internet found these incredible examples of Latvian maps from the 1920s.
They remind me a little of A Humument by Tom Phillips.


Land Use | Latvia | 1920s





Vegetation and Land Use | Latvia | 1920s



Bridges / Rivers | Latvia | 1920s







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