Wednesday, May 29, 2013

YHEE

Eating fresh hummus in Kerem (the Yemenite neighbourhood) with Sandra and Daphna

Hanging out in the fountain-centred circus in front of the old City Hall at the end of Bialek

Talking to documentary-makers in the garden of old City Hall at CoPro15


Sunday, May 26, 2013

YHEE

The Thames at twilight with U (Mel Rose's wedding) at Tower Bridge

U on foreground, London in background

Text from Cecelia from outside a club about enjoying Asher Lev


Fridays HEE


Chat with Steve Moore in Strutton Ground

Man Ray's c1929 portrait of Lee Miller - Man Ray Portraits exhibition at NPG

Ideas and analysis session with James Rutherford


Saturday, May 18, 2013

Quote: Creativity

I define creativity as the process of having original ideas that have value.
— Ken Robinson

 Creative work in any field often passes through typical phases. Sometimes what you end up with is not what you had in mind when you started. It's a dynamic process that often involves making new connections, crossing disciplines and using metaphors and analogies.

  Ken on Creativity and Education

Monday, May 13, 2013

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Visit to Long Lane Pastures with U & D

Reading Wise Men on the rocking chair bathed in sunlight

Paralympics on Channel 4 beat Olympics on BBC to the Bafta

Friday, May 10, 2013

Hair play

Lunatic Fringe (Liffey St, Dublin)
Klassique Kuts (Rostrevor, Co. Down)
Pro Coif (Friern Barnet)
The Cut Above (Thomas St, Dublin)
Clipper of the Yard (New Scotland Yard, Dacre St)
Headmasters (Bayswater)
Headonist (Milton Keynes)

Art Deco - V&A 16/7/03

Etoile du nord - cassandre 27
ruffian on the stair poster c83
Nord express 27
great watery treatment of steam

Jeune fille en vert - tamara de l c27
(pompidou) interplay of curves (belly) & hard edges (conical breasts)
signature bright red lips
bright cols punctuating grey palate
La belle rafaella 27 (private col london)
scarlet on greys
tight cropping

Mirror w woman's head - franz hagenauer 25 wien
my art deco woman's head screenprint
those bright red lips again

Jeanne paquin - chimere evening gown 25
gatsby

Albert Gleizes - brooklyn bridge 15
textured cubism - unusual ext subject cf. Delaunay

Demetre chiparus - les girls c30
bronze & ivory chryselephantine
cf hungarian? Deco photo of line of women R-L

Auburn 851 boat tail speedster 35
Gordon miller buehrig
super-charged !!!
Wheel arches 2die4 & that fabulous deco waste of space


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Glasgow, Kelvingrove Art Gallery

200207
William Strang - portrait of lady in red hat (vita sackville-west) 1918
Red (hat) + green (blouse) - Passion (picasso)
Very distinctive face

John Lavery - RB Cunninghame Graham 1893
John Buchan - moorland browns

Jacob Epstein - RB Cunninghame Graham 1923 bronze
Windswept hair
Another distinctive visage

Percy Wyndham Lewis - Froanna (the artist's wife) 1937
A different kind of brown palette - red/browen lifted with blue (incl her eyes)
Warmth and intimacy of an interior with only a sliver of daylight yet something cool about her
A superficial modernism

DG Rosetti - Regina Cordium (Alice Wilding) 1866
Use of gold - cf Klimt
Unusual, not conventionally beautiful face (big chin, wide apart eyes)
Mediaeval vibe, courtly romance
Symbolism - flowers, emblems

John Byrne - Self-portrait in Stetson 1989
Kinky Friedman
Cf Stanley Spencer

Constable - Hampstead Heath c1830
St Paul's alone on the distant skyline
North London as open countryside
2/3 sky

Optician's sign - part of John Quinton Pringle display
God's eyes in The Great Gatsby
90 Saltmarket, Glasgow (c1896)
Cf Seurat; Delaunay

Ben Nicholson - Still life 1946-50
Finishing off Picasso's Cubism
Classicism of De Chirico

Edward Baird - Unidentified Aircraft (over montrose) 1942
45% sky - cf Constable
Very original composition - another way of showing its about (off-stage) sky
Townscape cf Schiele
Upturned faces have a certain graceful calm in spite of fear - religious

Lowry - VE day 1945
The right artist for celebration
Memory: VE day 50th anniversary with U in Belfast
Restrained pallette cf Bridget Riley's egyptian paintings
Fades to white in bg

Ossip Zadkine - The Music Group 1926 bronze
Bought from the Exhibition of Jewish Artists 1943 - what and where was that?
Cf Picasso - Demoiselles d'Avignon - mask-like faces: Man Ray - portrait of woman with mask

Craigie Aitchison - Wayney Dead 2 1986
Cf Klee - universal simplicity
Honesty/loyalty of animal's mourning
Flower symbolism cf Rossetti - this is a universal flower of no particular kind

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Sunday, May 05, 2013

Friday's Happiness Experiment entry

Booking gig tickets for N (Wizz Khalifa)

Eating tuna and lime with Des

Walking up Savages Lane and along the mountain lane in the dark with U

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Coming down through Queen Meabh's Gap down to the famine village - Eileen's birthday walk

Chatting to Maura about my prospective book

Violet hour along Carlingford Lough (from the yacht club)