YHEE

Going to the theatre (NT, like old times) with my bro and Ma

Helping pull off a successful Phoenix Away Day, thanks to bringing in Amber

Early morning sunshine bathing East Finchley

YHEE

Chatting to Susie & Nick from Countdown at Channel 4 Upfronts in Manchester

Walking back through Manchester in the moonlight from Tony Wilson Square

Excellent mentoring session with RG in St Pancras

Birmingham City Art Gallery

Rossetti's eighth and final version of Proserpine (1882) in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

H. Wallis - The Stonebreaker 57
(Poor Law)
Subsumed back into the earth

DG Rossetti & Madox Brown
Beata Beatrix 77
Decorated gold frame - Klimt influence
Deathly beauty
Eliz Siddal (DG's wife)

DGR
Proserpine 81/2
Jane Morris
Only auburn version of 8 - JM was dark
Cf Eve (forbidden fruit)

Simeon Solomon
A Deacon 63
Cf Caravaggio - dark & gay
Compare his face to Proserpine - sensual lips

Wallis
Death of Chatterton 55/6
Small version (big in Tate)

Millais
The proscribed royalist 1651 52/3
Cavalier is Arthur hughes
Lovely chamber scale
Romantic

Madox Brown
An Eng Autumn afternoon 52/3
Hampstead

FMB
Work 63
Heath St

Sandys
Medea 66/8
Klimt
Gilt bg
Women as sorceress cf Morgan Le fay

Holman Hunt
Finding of saviour in temple
54/60
Jesus has got the vibe
Intensity of Preraph

Academic - cold
Bizarre medievalism
Intensity of feeling
Accuracy of detail

William Russell Flint
Silver & Gold 1931
Odalisque
Gatsby
Cheeky nip

Sidney Meteyard - Hope Comforting Love in Bondage (1901)
cf Burne-Jones - Pygmalion & the Image - hopes for love, courtly love, worshipping the female

The Staffordshire Hoard

Lyrics

The meaning of words v The sound of words
in songs

Hugh Laurie - Inheritance Tracks (BBC Radio 4)
we both listen to the latter

Modern Cinema

Emotion v Motion

YHEE

Sorting out my postcard collection

Reading Purity - Jonathan Franzen

Stroking the cat

Tom Jones at Millennium Dome with Van 8/11/15

No heaven or hell
Sooner or later cut you down
Didn't it rain
Standing in the rain
Sex bomb
What is the soul of man *
Take my love
You don't knock
Come along little children
The day Elvis died
Tower of song
It's not unusual
I love you baby can't help myself **

With Van:
What am I living for if not for you *
Irene *
Sometimes we cry
Strange Things *

Van at Millennium Dome 8/11/15

Instrumental
Close enough for jazz
Motherless child
One drink of wine
Making Love in the afternoon **
Tear your playhouse down
Days like this
Precious time
Baby please don't go *
I can't stop loving you
Magic time
No Plan B*

With Tom Jones:
I been abused
Lonesome road
Not feeling it any more

York Art Museum 6/11/15 (part 2)

Gwen john
Young Woman in a Red Shawl *
C.20

Whistler palette

PW Steer
Kimono
C.1894

Whistler

Walter Greaves
Nocturne in blue & gold
1870-79

Pupil of Whistler

York Art Museum 6/11/15

Burton Gallery

Jack Yeats
That we may never meet again *
c.55

Alan Moore type world
Very Irish

Hockney
Egyptian Head disappearing in descending clouds 61

Nerval youthfulness

Bomberg
The Bath 22

Herbert Read by Bryan Kneale
58

Spencer
The deposition and rolling away of the stone *
56

Interestingly constructed diptych
Thin slice at bottom
Resonant nails - looked at with fascination
Balled disciples

Allen Jones
Little ballerina no.1
83

Albert Moore
A Venus
1869

Overwhelmed with academia
Whistler palette of whites and greys
Whistler introduced Moore to Jap prints
Aesthetic Movement (art for arts sake)

Jankel Adler
The Poet 44 *
Polish Jew settled in GB
Enartete Kunst
Mixed sand in his paint
Friend of Klee

Chagall
Picasso

Nicholson
1934 aka still life birdie
34

Cf whistler greys
Pure

P Nash
Winter Sea*
14-26 25-37?

Cf todesmeer
Dymchurch

Fred Uhlman (was just thinking about him due to Herbert Read)
St corner in S Servan
49
To London 36
The London Grp
40-41 interned on IoMan

Rose Wylie
Doodlebug
98

Richard Jack
The return to the front
1916
Victoria station

Epic size clashes with initiate subject
How did they go back?!

Robert Hannah
Refreshing the Weary
1847

My white nursery rhyme book
I like Narrative images like this
Family is very young - sister not mother?

Edward Matthew Ward
Hogarths Studio in 1739
1863

Strange conception
Very unHogarth-like in spirit

Frederick Daniel Hardy
The Volunteers
1860

Fallen skittles lend it subtle pathos

Gwen john
Young Woman in a Red Shawl *
C.20

Whistler palette

PW Steer
Kimono
C.1894

Whistler

Walter Greaves
Nocturne in blue & gold
1870-79

Pupil of Whistler

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Accompanying D to the rite of passage that is his first viewing of The Godfather - with live orchestral accompaniment at the Albert Hall, thanks to N

Reading Jonathan Franzen's Purity in the autumnal square of Christchurch Gardens

Advisory meeting at National Portrait Gallery with various professors, in the Orange Street board room