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

Barbara Hepworth (Tate)

Tate Britain 17/7/15

Infant *

1929 Burmese wood

Khmer style

Captures baby's arms up

Eyeless face powerful
 

Ben Nicholson 1933 oil 1933

Picasso Classical

Surgery drawings like Moore's bomb shelters 

Two Forms 1933 alabaster - sensual , truly erotic 

Self-Photogram

1933

Moholy-Nagy (London)

Surreal

Epstein - Doves 1914-15

Engraved lines for feet

Horst - V&A 29.xi.14

Protege of Hoyningen-Huene
Bauhaus under Gropius
"The only real male elegance was English"
Beaton
Lee Miller

Dali (1943)
Mainbocher Corset 39 ***
A torturous item of clothing
Original & Touched-up
Original better as clothing more artificial

Isherwood

Lisa Fonssageives 39 *
Nude behind veil Louis 14th style
Hand only thing in front of veil plus slit of raw reality down right

Hats by Best Lord Taylor 43 *
Red White Blue triangle
3 women reading papers

Dress by Sally Victor - Muriel Maxwell * 39
Red and white lipstick and sunglasses

Oblique

You get at the true meaning of things sideways.

— Alexei Sayle in 2010

Talking about Elvis Costello/Clive Langer/Robert Wyatt's Shipbuilding. A key to great art and writing, and an explanation why most of the bad stuff is bad.

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Chicken soup (at Harry Morgan, established 1947)

Saturday lunch with Big Son

Ralph Steadman's drawings in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - which I finished today

Choe Creation

Here's an interesting arrival in London and Newcastle (simultaneously) this week. Peripatetic (LA born) David Choe has a new show opening this Friday night at the Lazarides Galleries. Here's a sneak preview of the new work...



Picture courtesy David Choe and Lazarides Gallery
Copyright: David Choe 2008

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Duchamp's Nu Descendant un Escalier at private view of Tate Modern's new exhibition - Duchamp . Man Ray . Picabia (someone should make it in wood)

Nightwalk from Horseferry Road to Tate Modern, especially the stretch near Gabriel's Wharf

Discovering U & I had listened to the same countryside programme on Radio 4 on early Saturday morning about the South Downs and Weald of Kent and picked up on the same stuff

Starspots #43 - arty smarties

Andrew Marr, BBC journalist - Tate Britain (Modern Painters: the Camden Town Group) 11.ii.08

Michael Nyman, composer - Tate Modern (Duchamp . Man Ray . Picabia) 19.ii.08
Joan Bakewell - ditto

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Empire's Children winning an Interactive Media Award in New York



Visiting the Arts Club in Dover Street and checking out the art round its walls



Walking through St James's and the eponymous park in the afternoon sun (with Ewan Mcintosh)

Review of 2007

Best Film:
The Lives of Others
Knocked Up
3:10 to Yuma

Michael Clayton
Into the Wild
There Will Be Blood
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Golden Compass
Charlie Wilson's War
In the Valley of Elah
Die Hard 4.0
American Gangster


Best TV:
Skins

Best Book:
The Song Before it is Sung - Justin Cartwright
Life Class - Pat Barker
The Ghost - Robert Harris

Best Play:
The 39 Steps (Criterion)

Best Albums:
We'll Never Turn Back - Mavis Staples
Twelve - Patti Smith

Best Single/track:
Radio Nowhere - Bruce Springsteen & the E St Band
Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs
Patti Smith - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Best Gig:
1) Madcap's Last Laugh - Syd Barrett tribute at the Barbican
2) Patti Smith - Twelve Songs tour at the Roundhouse
3) The Rolling Stones - last night of their Bigger Bang tour at the O2
4) John Martyn - Solid Air at the Albert Hall

Best Exhibition:
1) Antony Gormley at the Hayward
2) Robert Capa and Gerda Taro at the IPC, New York

Best Sports Event:
1) England beating France in Rugby World Cup Semi-final in Paris
2) Start of Tour de France in London

The Art of London - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

A talk by gifted and original photographer/artist Emily Allchurch at Channel4, followed by a lovely chance encounter with her later at Frost & Reed gallery in St James's where her current exhibition Urban Chiaroscuro is hanging. She's clearly a great lover of London.

An autumnal afternoon walk through St James's Park with artist Laura Williams, creator of Aluna, the lunar clock - a hugely ambitious public artwork destined to appear on the north bank of the Thames opposite the Millennium Dome at the site of the East India docks. Another lover of London.

Watching the Marx Bros in Duck Soup with the Enfants Terribles - D schticking himself - especially the mirror scene

Bonus pleasures:
Finding out, out of the blue, that Big Art Mob has been shortlisted for a BIMA Award in the Art & Culture category

A splurge at Hatchards bookshop in Piccadilly including Peter Ackroyd's new book about the Thames, Robert Harris' new thriller, the first Biggles book for N, Michael Ondaatje's new novel for U, and a John Updike for book group

Power of Art - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Working in Tate Modern - memories of photo-expeditions when it was an empty old powerstation in a wind-swept no-man's-land



Chatting to Will Gompertz



Listening to Mark Kermode's podcast (aka Mark Fairey, a bigger boy at skool) and enjoying his banter with Simon Mayo

Suzy queue - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Campari & soda with my old friend and fellow company director Sue overlooking Borough Market - the sensible way of doing an AGM



Listening and chatting to Susan Greenfield, chief exec of the Royal Institution, about science, society and the impact of technology



Snapping public art around Blackfriars, in particular the Lever Bros building, for Big Art Mob

today's Happiness Experiment entry

chatting with Will Gompertz, Head of Tate Media, at the old Tate Gallery about art and tv - always impressed by the holes in the outside walls from near-miss bombs from the Second World War (a characteristic shared with the Exhibition Road bit of the V&A)

getting my shit together for Human Footprint Interactive

a bit of blog reading including Cybersoc (about yesterday's Social Media Consensus meeting) and What I Learned on Holiday by James Crabtree