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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7bPmVp4LRY&list=WL&index=3
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Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900) – The Public Domain Review
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... to be continued ... as ... masks part ix
Sunday, April 9, 2023
Friday, April 7, 2023
It is Good friday ... so let's take a quick look at Rembrandt's drypoint of the Crucifixion ... he drew the plate and then revised it several times before signing it in 1653 in all, there seem to be five "states"
the first state
the second state
Use this image 163726001 - | British Museum
the third state
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the fourth state
the fifth state
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
The Muses ... an ivory panel in the archives of the Louvre ... only six muses are shown ... there must have been a third panel
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010275091
Object name/Title
Dénomination : applique de coffret (?, 2)
Titre d'usage : diptyque des muses
Titre d'usage : diptyque des muses
Description/Features
Décor : les neuf Muses
panneau 1 ; en haut ; Clio (?, Calliope, ?, chitôn, draperie, en nimbe, tenant, volumen, 2, volant, derrière) ; Hérodote (?, Homère, ?, barbe, drapé, assis, sur, siège, moulure) ; au milieu ; Anakréon (?, barbe, tenant, ?, de face, assis, ?, près de) ; Euterpe (plume, péplos, ceinture, draperie, tenant, flûte, marchant, sur, sol) ; en bas ; Uranie (plume, chitôn, ceinture, draperie, tenant, baguette, près de) ; Aristote (?, Aratos, ?, barbe, drapé, nimbe, assis, sur, siège, moulure) ; dans le champ ; arbre (4)
panneau 2 ; en haut ; Ménandre (?, Euripide, ?, barbe, drapé, de face, assis, ?, près de) ; Terpsichore (?, Érato, ?, plume, chitôn, draperie, tenant, cithare, dansant) ; au milieu ; Melpomène (?, Thalie, ?, plume, chitôn, phainoméride, ceinture, draperie, en nimbe, tenant, masque de théâtre, près de) ; Euripide (?, Ménandre, ?, imberbe, drapé, debout, accoudé à , pilastre) ; en bas ; Horace (?, imberbe, drapé, assis, près de) ; Érato (?, Terpsichore, ?, plume, péplos, draperie, tenant, lyre) ; dans le champ ; arbre (3) ; palme
Etat de l'oeuvre : incomplet : moins un troisième feuillet avec les trois dernières muses - quelques éclats sur la main et le pied d'Euterpe, sur le pied d'Uranie, sur la main et le pied de Terpsichore - traces de réemploi : les trous d'assemblage dans l'épaisseur des plaques, les trous de fixation dans le fond de chaque plaque - les bords ont été retaillés
panneau 1 ; en haut ; Clio (?, Calliope, ?, chitôn, draperie, en nimbe, tenant, volumen, 2, volant, derrière) ; Hérodote (?, Homère, ?, barbe, drapé, assis, sur, siège, moulure) ; au milieu ; Anakréon (?, barbe, tenant, ?, de face, assis, ?, près de) ; Euterpe (plume, péplos, ceinture, draperie, tenant, flûte, marchant, sur, sol) ; en bas ; Uranie (plume, chitôn, ceinture, draperie, tenant, baguette, près de) ; Aristote (?, Aratos, ?, barbe, drapé, nimbe, assis, sur, siège, moulure) ; dans le champ ; arbre (4)
panneau 2 ; en haut ; Ménandre (?, Euripide, ?, barbe, drapé, de face, assis, ?, près de) ; Terpsichore (?, Érato, ?, plume, chitôn, draperie, tenant, cithare, dansant) ; au milieu ; Melpomène (?, Thalie, ?, plume, chitôn, phainoméride, ceinture, draperie, en nimbe, tenant, masque de théâtre, près de) ; Euripide (?, Ménandre, ?, imberbe, drapé, debout, accoudé à , pilastre) ; en bas ; Horace (?, imberbe, drapé, assis, près de) ; Érato (?, Terpsichore, ?, plume, péplos, draperie, tenant, lyre) ; dans le champ ; arbre (3) ; palme
Etat de l'oeuvre : incomplet : moins un troisième feuillet avec les trois dernières muses - quelques éclats sur la main et le pied d'Euterpe, sur le pied d'Uranie, sur la main et le pied de Terpsichore - traces de réemploi : les trous d'assemblage dans l'épaisseur des plaques, les trous de fixation dans le fond de chaque plaque - les bords ont été retaillés
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
louise nevelson .... i use to like the huge assembly of black wood they kept in the tate gallery years ago ... but never took the trouble to explore her work further ... silly me !
"I had, shall we say, an audience with Louise Nevelson. God, she was grand--and yet simplistic. Don't ask me how she did this. Every actress to whom I have told the story of our encounter has wanted to know how she could be so grand, so imperious, and yet direct and accessible. She was remarkable. 'Let's not worry about being blocked,' she told me, using the royal 'we' to comment upon those who make things for a living or for inspiration. 'One is not blocked; one is merely lazy or thinking of something better. There is no excuse for not working and getting it better.' And she's right. You take a piece of wood or marble, or a string of words, or some tubes of paint, and you do what you can. That's working. And you hope and pray that it matters. But there really is no excuse for not getting to it."
Tennessee Williams/Interview with James Grissom/1982. Photograph by Cecil Beaton.
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Thursday, March 16, 2023
Thursday, March 9, 2023
jake thackray's last will and testament
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Ear worms ... some just won't fit because they are so miraculously complicated ... it has taken me hours to transcribe Jake Thackray's Last Will and Testament so far ... and I still haven't entirely understood it's rule-breaking boundary-challenging deliberate structural mis-fits ...
(13) Jake Thackray - Last Will and Testament - YouTube
I, the under-mentioned,
By this document …
Do declare my true intentions,
My last will, my testament.
When I turn up me toes, when I
rattle me clack, when I agonise,
I want no great wet weepings, no
tearing of hair, no wringing of hands,
No sighs, no lack-a-days, no
woe-is-me's, and none of your sad adieus.
Go, go, go and get the priest
and then go get the booze … Boys …
Death, where is thy victory? Grave, where is thy sting?
When I snuff it, bury me
quickly, then let carousals begin …
But not a do with a few ham
sandwiches, a sausage roll or two and "A small port wine, please"
Roll the carpet right back, get
cracking with your old Gay Gordons
And your knees up, shake it up,
live it up, sup it up, hell of a kind of a time …
And if the coppers come around,
well, tell them ... the party's mine … Boys …
Let best beef be eaten, fill
every empty glass,
Let no breast be beaten, let no tooth be gnashed.
Don't bother with a fancy
tombstone or a big-deal angel or a little copper flower pot plant
A dog-rose in my eyes or a
pussy-willow but no forget-me-nots,
No epitaphs, no keepsakes; you
can let me memory slip
You can say a prayer or two for
me soul then, but make it quick … Boys …
Lady, if your bosom is heaving,
don't waste your bosom on me
Let it heave for a man who's
breathing, a man who feels, a man who can see
And to my cronies, you can read
my books, you can drive around in my motor car
And you can fish your trout with
my fly and tackle, you can play on my guitar,
And sing me songs, wear me
shirts, you can even settle me debts
You can kiss my little missus if
she's willing then, but no regrets … Boys …
Your rosebuds are numbered,
Gather them now for rosebuds'
sake,
And if your hands aren't too
encumbered
Gather a bud or two for Jake.
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
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Sunday, March 5, 2023
panels by martin battersby for lady diana cooper, mother of john julius norwich ...
Monday, February 27, 2023
corrugated iron ... there is a facebook page named the corrugated iron appreciation society ... i felt they weren't being scholarly or encyclopaedic and definitely lacking context ... so i let the obsession run for a while ... especially when i realized that there must be hundreds on google maps' street view ... eventually, they rusticated me ...
here are a few of the nicer ones ..
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