Crete (circa 1986)

So, I went to Crete and painted for a few months such long time ago. I made lots of small oil paintings out of my VW camper van. 

le monde des hommes

I painted this at the height of the Balkens War in July, 1994, when I felt so disgusted with what men were doing to other men in ex-Yugoslavia. Twenty years ago almost to the day, incredible! 

And today it the same kind of hate between Arabs and Jews.

Its a rather crude painting, I admit, but I too, was also at war but with myself at that time as it was two years before I stopped drinking. I was also leaving Nature behind and delving into an invented kind of picture plane.

I made some other very dark pictures at this time. And thus, I find myself limited by what I can take, and what I must leave behind. I could not bring myself to destroy many of these things because although they make little sense to anyone else, there are such a large part of my story.

red!

Still life red from Sequentia on Vimeo.

Rembrandt remembered

MAD type

CONNECTION - MADinSpain Title Sequence from Sebas and Clim on Vimeo.

sofa !

19 September 2013

the hesitant man (Edgar Oliver)

"I am  a hestitant man. It seems to me that I have spent my life half lost in some rapturous dream I dreamt as a child from which I have never awakened. Perhaps I don't want to wake up. If I woke I would find that I have failed to live."

from Edgar Oliver in his prologue for his one man show at the Axis Theatre in New York.

flight

This night, last flight
Of the butterfly
Across the road.

Recto Verso (l'amour #2)

Pirandello's garden (circa 1993)

Recto Verso (l'amour)

grey

Inside the grey sky
Is a painting 
Of the grey sky.

General Henri Gouraud

Recto Verso (Jews vs Arabs)

Recto Verso (Arabs vs Jews)

10 April 2013

summertime in France

bottled up

Locked up from Gabriel Grapperon on Vimeo.

Siena (circa 1986, l'été)

I am moving from one country to another, and despite the  unpleasant task of it all one does finds old friends. This from my days out painting in the sweltering Tuscan landscape.

16 September 2013

31 July 2013

10 July 2012

14 August 2012

20 August 2013

18 Septmber 2013

Fit as a pancake

FIT from pinggui films on Vimeo.

16 February 2012

22 March 2013

12 June 2012

30 August 2013

12 August 2013

dinner

28 July 2013

Millepede Macro

Macro Millipede // Diplopoda (scientific name) // Macro Challenge from Reyernaldo Delva on Vimeo.

Foucault and Chomsky

I watched a wonderful documentary on Michel Foucault last night. I confess that I have never read his books nor knew much about his philosophy but I did have a kind of blind idea that somehow he was responsible for much of the thinking behind Contemporary art.

This, of course, gave me the willies and I put him into a place high on the bookshelf where I would probably never have to read him. And yet, to my great surprise, he was portrayed as a fascinating man full of life with an innate intellectual grasp of the difficult lines of thought in Philosophy and the contemporary life of humankind. This is but a teaser with the renowned thinker and philosopher Noam Chomsky. Its a great portrait of the (70's)? 
More to be revealed...

26 August 2013

The Great Carolyn Carlson speaks

Wonderful Leica Madness! (Thorsten von Overgaad)

Thorsten Overgaard Workshop 2014 from Thorsten Overgaard on Vimeo.

And his delicious photos....
(Leica M 240 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95.)

Wistlawa Szymborska (1923 - 2012)

This is one of my very favorite poets. 

Christian Martel (artist crazy for kites)

ai wei-wei (by the way)

Of course, he is one of the biggest art stars currently on the planet which doesn't say boo to me because I only look at the works of an artist, not the name. And I find this wood sculpture compelling, and quite moving in a way which cannot be qualified except that I simply like it very much.

l'air de rien #191 (Harry's dead)

tonight and tate from cloudsandsea on Vimeo.

l'air de rien #190 ('Holly, what fools we are')

'Holly, what fools we are' from cloudsandsea on Vimeo.

successful artist! #2 (Julian Schnabel) and Paulo Veronese

In London last week I went to see the latest show of Julian Schnabel of whom I wrote  after seeing a nice little film of him on Vimeo. But, after being so diplomatic, I have to confess that I came away from this exhibition with a few conclusions; but I shall be kind and simply wonder: What was he thinking?
I left shaking my head as I headed down to the National Gallery where there is currently a show of the great Paulo Veronese. Such magnificent things on the huge walls there that immediately erased the distaste from the previous show.

And Paulo Veronese, what a difference 450 years make!