Star spot #475

Malcolm Rivkind MP

Pimlico Station

25/7/16

Georgia O'Keeffe - Tate Modern

Music - pink & blue no.1 1918

Soft-edged organic abstracts - TRY IT

Stieglitz Equivalent 1925-30

Cloud photos with GOK shapes

AS

GOK 1920

Face hands arm - artists equipment

Mask with Golden Apple 23

Abstract environment for still life

Lovely palette black Browns yellows

East River 3

26

Abstracting into blocks and planes

East River from 30th floor...

28

Smoothing details

Punctuated by vertical chimneys

John Marin

Downtown NY 23

Watercolour with charcoal TRY IT

big flowers as response to speed of modern life

Rousseau

Jimson Weed/ White flower 1

32

She rejected the erotic dimension - but it's undeniable

Craigie Aitchison

Black cross w stars & blue

29

Reminded of a skull painting I did - my first oil in marroon 

From the faraway, nearby 37

Still life superimposed on landscape

Surrealist

Deer horns 38

Bones as organic growing things

Frida Khalo

Red hills & bones 41

Still life w landscape 

Advance on From the faraway - reintegrated into ls

Impressionists - serial landscapes

Black place 4

44

Bomberg colours

Paul Nash

Wall with green door 53

Perfect combo of abstract & fig

Pelvis 1 44 *

Pelvis bone hole to create instant abstract

Ansel Adams

GOK & Orville Cox

37

Masculine looking increasingly

Untitled ghost ranch cliff

C43

Pencil & charcoal

Focus on holes

Cracks

Inherently sexual
gorge sketches look like Abram Games cliff print

Adams

Thunderstorm ghost ranch

37

A journey to abstraction from & through landscape 

Frames out sky often

Superimposition v Integration

Of bones etc.

Tanguy - shapes

Wall with Green Door *

Hockney - 70s LA buildings

cf Patti Smith, Frida Kahlo

GOK exhibition at Irish Museum of Modern Art, Kilmainham, Dublin

Georgia O’Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction

Nature and Abstraction is a survey of the extraordinary career of the legendary American artist Georgia O’Keeffe.  The exhibition comprises some 30 works ranging from 1918 to 1977 and deals with the central concern of her work – the transformation of nature into abstraction. It includes examples of all her main areas of interest, landscape paintings, flower studies and abstract works. 
February-May 2007

Painting with Light - Tate Britain

1839 photography invented

Robert Adamson

David Octavius Hill

Edinburgh

DH & Amelia Hill

Disruption Portrait 43-66

Epic

The Woodmans Daughter 1850-51

Millais

Tess of the D'Urbevilles

[ ] Send to Melvin

Holman Hunt - Nazareth 1855

Great idea capturing biblical views

Thomas Seddon - Jerusalem & valley of Jehoshaphat 1854/5

Captures life in the dry country

CH Clarke

Frank Dillon

1870s 

Cf Leightons Arab Hall

Henry Wallis

Chatterton 56

James Robertson

The death of chatterton

59

Rossetti

Beata Beatrix 64-70

John Parsons

Jane Morris posed by Rossetti 65

J Dudley  Johnston  - valley of the Dragon 1909

Romantic

Whistler - nocturne blue & gold old battersea bridge 72/5

Noc blue & silver cremorne lights

72

Japanese

Whistler

3 figs pink & grey *

68-78

Exquisite palette

Out of focus - vibration

Sargent

Carnation ...

85/6

Fantastical colours & lighting

Theodore Roussel

Reading girl

86/7

Modern 20s look

Fred Holland Day

The vision 1907

Composite - poetic

Rosetti

Proserpine

74

Jane Morris strong beauty

End

YHEE Corsica

Pinarello & Capu di Fora

Adventurous walk around Capu di Fora headland with N & D culminating in a sunset swim

Backgammon under the lighted night trees at the local creperie

Early run, meditation under the trees & swim routine

YHEE Corsica

Pinarello & Porto Vecchio

Swimming in natural pool on Cavu

Reading Eric Ambler between snoozes on the terrace

Walking around the Old Town of Porto Vecchio with U

Recent Happiness Experiment entries - Corsica

Saturday 9th July Ajaccio-Portovecchio

Watching the sunset en famille from a high winding road above the Corsican coast north of Bonifaccio

Eating a long-awaited dinner overlooking the port in SomethingwithaPriano

Driving through the interior from Ajaccio via Bonifaccio to Pinarello

Sunday 20th July Pinarello

Spontaneous swim after a jog

Swim with Una to the buoy with the old boys

Hearing that Andy Murray won Wimbledon in straight sets from a fellow Brit tourist in the absence of wifi

Goodbye my friend

Ruby
Woof
Woof Jnr & Gucci
Tommy
Tango

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Last day at Channel 4

Lunch with the Features team at Quirinale including kir royale, affogato and vino santo - Clem, Gill, Helen & Sophie

Sun-drenched taxi ride home

Visit from Hanna, Mathilda and Erling with a trip down to the Table du Marche.

Star Spots #414

27/6/16

Rory Bremner
Bill Patterson
Michael Palin

- Roger's do


Vic Reeves

- Euston tube station platform

Carole King performing Tapestry - 3rd July 2016 - Hyde Park

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2. Tapestry
3. I Feel the Earth Move
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4. So Far Away
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5. It's Too Late *
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6. Home Again
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7. Beautiful
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8. Way Over Yonder
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9. You've Got a Friend
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10. Where You Lead
    (with Louise Goffin)
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11. Will You Love Me Tomorrow
    (The Shirelles cover) (with Louise Goffin)
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12. Smackwater Jack
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13. Tapestry
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14. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
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15. Other Hits
16. Take Good Care of My Baby / It Might as Well Rain Until September / Go Away Little Girl / I'm Into Something Good * / Hey Girl
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17. Chains
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18. Jazzman
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19. Encore:
20. Up on the Roof *
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21. The Loco-Motion
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22. I Feel the Earth Move
    (Reprise. Featuring the London Cast of Beautiful)
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23. Encore 2:
24. You've Got a Friend
    (Reprise)

With U & N, Clive & Jeannie

Lookalikes

Hugh Grant (in About A Boy) = Chris Wyles