... of the seven deadly sins, the eighth and most horrid is emotional blackmail ... whilst for this blogger, the only sacred thing is life itself
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
the national health service act of 1946
an act of parliament from 1946 ...
https://www.parliament.uk/…/coll-…/health-01/nhs-act-page-2/
the act was fiercely opposed ...
https://www.quora.com/Was-there-major-opposition-to-the-National-Health-Service-Act-1946-in-the-UK-as-there-is-for-the-Affordable-Care-Act-Obamacare-in-the-US-Why-or-why-not?fbclid=IwAR1iyFzctDQzR2cAKYvO5Vbv63SDGP0v4R5NB25t3taIkPy6NAJc_miK5yU
and at the final vote the opposition in the debate was led by Sir David Eccles, Conservative Member of Parliament for Chippenham
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1946-07-26a.415.0
at the end of the debate ...
The House divided: Ayes, 261; Noes, 113.
aneurin bevan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan
sir david eccles
Monday, October 7, 2019
Thursday, October 3, 2019
wind and rain and motion in classical chinese painting and in japanese art ... a scapbook, to be updated as and when ...
when first this page was almost completed, i inadvertently deleted it ... so i will start again and slowly cobble it together ... i'll just be inserting links as and when i discover them ...
i had started out ... watchin rain falling on a temple in japan and wondering if chinese and japanese painters had a longer tradition than europeans of depicting wind and rain ?
but first i had to do some catch-up ...
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/chin/hd_chin.htm
the first one with rain in its title ... Wu Zhen, Bamboo In Spring Rain
i can see the misty atmosphere but the rain isn't very clear
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/wu-zhens-bamboo-in-spring-rain/
good intro to chinese classical art by mae anna pang ...
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/three-perfections-poetry-calligraphy-and-painting-in-chinese-art/
intro to nature in chinese art ...
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cnat/hd_cnat.htm
intro to chinese painting during the yuan dynasty ...
https://occcricketstats.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/3_yuan.pdf
turns out the above is extracted from this ...
https://occcricketstats.wordpress.com/2018/12/03/a-history-of-chinese-art/
it didn't take long to find an example of the depiction of wind ... painted by zhao mengfu before 1322
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Mengfu
zhao mengfu's self-portrait ...
interestingly, zhao mengfu's wife, guan daosheng, was also a landscape painter of some note and she rendered this landscape of bamboos shrouded in mist and cloud ..
she is also remembered for this poem ...
next up ... Dai Jin, 1388 to 1462 ... this is the only image I've found so far with marks that are clearly intended to signify rain ...
https://www.comuseum.com/painting/masters/dai-jin/boat-returning-amid-wind-and-rain/
eventually, in japan ... there was an artistic storm of rendered rain ...
from hokusai's manga, volume seven ...
kuniyoshi ... Life of Nichiren: Prayer for Rain, c.1835
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utagawa_Kuniyoshi
Toyoshige, c.1830
hiroshige, a younger rival of hokusai ... sudden shower in shono
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshige
my favourite by hokusai, from the mangas ...
found in ... https://www.metmuseum.org/pubs/bulletins/1/pdf/3263896.pdf.bannered.pdf
you can read the whole of volume seven here .... https://www.hokusai-katsushika.org/manga-seventh.html .... it contains several masterpieces
i had started out ... watchin rain falling on a temple in japan and wondering if chinese and japanese painters had a longer tradition than europeans of depicting wind and rain ?
but first i had to do some catch-up ...
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/chin/hd_chin.htm
the first one with rain in its title ... Wu Zhen, Bamboo In Spring Rain
i can see the misty atmosphere but the rain isn't very clear
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/wu-zhens-bamboo-in-spring-rain/
good intro to chinese classical art by mae anna pang ...
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/three-perfections-poetry-calligraphy-and-painting-in-chinese-art/
intro to nature in chinese art ...
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cnat/hd_cnat.htm
intro to chinese painting during the yuan dynasty ...
https://occcricketstats.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/3_yuan.pdf
turns out the above is extracted from this ...
https://occcricketstats.wordpress.com/2018/12/03/a-history-of-chinese-art/
it didn't take long to find an example of the depiction of wind ... painted by zhao mengfu before 1322
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Mengfu
zhao mengfu's self-portrait ...
interestingly, zhao mengfu's wife, guan daosheng, was also a landscape painter of some note and she rendered this landscape of bamboos shrouded in mist and cloud ..
she is also remembered for this poem ...
more chinese rain ... but maybe only implicit rain
next up ... Dai Jin, 1388 to 1462 ... this is the only image I've found so far with marks that are clearly intended to signify rain ...
https://www.comuseum.com/painting/masters/dai-jin/boat-returning-amid-wind-and-rain/
eventually, in japan ... there was an artistic storm of rendered rain ...
from hokusai's manga, volume seven ...
kuniyoshi ... Life of Nichiren: Prayer for Rain, c.1835
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utagawa_Kuniyoshi
Toyoshige, c.1830
Night Rain at Oyama: the Peak seen from the Fudo Temple in the foreground (Oyama yau, Zen fudo yori chojo no zu)
Toyokuni II Utagawa (Toyoshige)
Date: c. 1830
Toyokuni II Utagawa (Toyoshige)
Date: c. 1830
hiroshige, a younger rival of hokusai ... sudden shower in shono
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshige
my favourite by hokusai, from the mangas ...
found in ... https://www.metmuseum.org/pubs/bulletins/1/pdf/3263896.pdf.bannered.pdf
you can read the whole of volume seven here .... https://www.hokusai-katsushika.org/manga-seventh.html .... it contains several masterpieces
Friday, September 27, 2019
Monday, September 23, 2019
Zhao Mengfu, and his supremely talented missus, Guan Daosheng
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Mengfu
http://www.chinaonlinemuseum.com/painting-zhao-mengfu.php
this painting, is by Zhao Mengfu's talented wife, Guan Daosheng ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guan_Daosheng
https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/guan-daosheng-1262-1319
One of Zhao Mengfu's best and simplest paintings was a “copy” or re-interpretation of this one by his wife, which he painted after her death and shortly before his own.
A short anecdote about their relationship ... In those days, court
officials could afford more than one wife but the pair seemed happy
enough. However, later in life she
learned that he was contemplating the acquisition of another concubine. She wrote him this little poem and left it in
a place where he would soon chance upon it.
You
and I
Have so much love,
That it
Burns like a fire,
In which we bake a lump of clay
Moulded into a figure of you
And a figure of me.
Then we take both of them,
And break them into pieces,
And mix the pieces with water,
And mould again a figure of you,
And a figure of me.
I am in your clay.
In life we share a single quilt.
In death we will share a single coffin.
Have so much love,
That it
Burns like a fire,
In which we bake a lump of clay
Moulded into a figure of you
And a figure of me.
Then we take both of them,
And break them into pieces,
And mix the pieces with water,
And mould again a figure of you,
And a figure of me.
I am in your clay.
In life we share a single quilt.
In death we will share a single coffin.
It was interesting for me to see how these painters dealt with space and perspective and temporal narratives, and how their Buddhist faith and studies led them towards a simpler style ... I had begun my inquiry whilst searching for any classical Chinese paintings that might show rain as it falls ... I only found one some time after these two lived .... but the ramble through Chinese painting, and then wondering how they might have influenced great Japanese artists, eventually led me on to Tanaka Maho's excellent summary of Hockney's deeply informed responses to temporal and spatial perspectives in Chinese and Japanese art ... which I would like to encourage people to read ...
http://www.bigakukai.jp/aesthetics_online/aesthetics_21/text21/text21_tanakamaho.pdf
Saturday, September 21, 2019
DJ Cummerbund's inspired mashup ...
RUSH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WddSQVTwj_Y
plus
KELIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6yShQ1mmcw
and with a bit of digital wriggle-room
equals
DJ CUMMERBUND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B88TVYzhCPY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WddSQVTwj_Y
plus
KELIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6yShQ1mmcw
and with a bit of digital wriggle-room
equals
DJ CUMMERBUND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B88TVYzhCPY
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Little Gidding ... known to me for many years as the title of one of TS Eliot's Four Quartets ( the last and maybe the loveliest ) ... but I've only just come across the The Little Gidding Harmonies ... and the Little Gidding Concordances ... so now I know why he was there
http://blog.whitneyannetrettien.com/2013/03/faqs-on-little-gidding-harmonies.html
http://littlegiddingharmonies.org/
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315613772/chapters/10.4324/9781315613772-9
https://www.rct.uk/collection/themes/trails/the-little-gidding-concordance/the-little-gidding-concordances?fbclid=IwAR2dP95noCuFU4aVAEiTj45dJunJb4NmrKIl7ZOUDAgZt1fGSqbOqHQZMkc
of course ... as ever, Whitney Trettien was already on the case ...
http://blog.whitneyannetrettien.com/2014/02/layouts-patterns-networks.html
and later, still ...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
graham sutherland illustrating frances quarles ... an original 1943 lithograph sold in tenby museum this week ... turns out to be a late manifestation of a long-lived publishing format
So have I seen a well-built castle, stand
Upon the tip-toes of a lofty hill,
Whose active power commands both sea & land,
And curbs the pride of the bleag’rers’ will;
At length her ag’d foundation fails her trust,
And lays her tott’ring ruins in the dust.
So have I seen the BLAZING TAPER shoot
Her golden head into the feeble air;
Whose shadow guilding ray, spread round about,
Makes the foul face of blade brow’d darkness fair;
Till at the length her waisting glory fades,
And leaves the night to her invet’rate shades
Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man published in 1637, was the sequel to Francis Quarles' best-selling Emblems (1635) which was lavishly illustrated, containing five books of meditative verse. The poems are introduced by a scriptural motto, then a commentary based on quotations from various sources, and at the end closure is achieved with a short didactic epigram. To Francis Quarles, an emblem is but a short parable and the verse puts the visual into the mental. In this way, the words and pictures complement each other, therefore having a double impact on the reader.
Sutherland's litho was from a set of three ... they are the first three images in this set ... http://www.williamweston.co.uk/item/artist_previous/233/1
there still exists an imprint of all three Sutherland designs on one sheet ...
https://www.gazette-drouot.com/lots/10311506
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26402658?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblem_book
Ah-ha ! After MUCH GOOGLE-ING ... Here's some proper scholarship relating to the printing of the Emblems ... by Whitney Trettien
"It is the argument of this chapter and this monograph more broadly that the creativity and cultural work of books like Theophila become legible when we read them not as texts but as multidimensional media objects designed with meaning and purpose."
https://manifold.umn.edu/read/untitled-a5533014-27c2-48fd-a0fb-498976cbe4da/section/653a6a70-f1f6-41ea-839e-917db4a2fc56
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