'The sacred in art ...'

<music>

#69. Nina Simone, I Loves You Porgy.

Gershwin, The Cuban Overture.

Saw North Pandemic Groove at the MCC.

The Chieftains, O'Neill's March.

John Defrancesco, Gold Duck Time.

Tommy Emanuel, Mombasa.

Jonathan Stretch, Star Trek Theme.

Susie Arioli, Blue Skies.

Bebel Gilberto, River Song.

A study in contrasts: Woodstock: CSNY v Matthews Southern Comfort v Joni (she wrote the song in 1968, kinda folkie, but jazzed it up in 1974). Which one do *you* prefer?

The Hot Sardines, Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen.

The Speakeasy Three, When I Get Low, I Get High.

Da Lata, Free.

Tinariwen, Tamiditin Tan Ufrawen.
 

Monday, 2016 June 27

watched the agenda (pension plans and hotdog stands) and eat: the story of food (carnivores).

Tuesday, 2016 June 28

Hans Hofmann (1880–1966) 'believed that abstract art was a way to get at the important reality. He famously stated that "the ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak".' (more)

Wednesday, 2016 June 29

For Kazuo Nakamura (1926-2002), art and science had 'the same basic pattern. Rhythms are the same. In fact, I think there's a fundamental universe pattern in all art and nature. Painters are learning a lot from science now. In a sense, scientists and artists are doing the same thing.' Abstract Painting In Canada, 115. (more)

Thursday, 2016 June 30

An example of serendipity from Toni Onley (1928-2004): 'So I got mad at all these paintings and began to tear them up. Then, seeing them scattered about the floor, the pieces lying one on top of the other, a whole new vocabulary of shapes began to emerge.' Abstract Painting In Canada, 140. (more)

Friday, 2016 July 1 Canada Day

 

Saturday, 2016 July 2

 
 
'The sacred in art is in a sense divided from the religion or the faith or the socio-political structure. It is that little spark which tends to unite man to man [sic] over the centuries, over the millennia'. Ronald Bloore (1925-2009), Abstract Painting In Canada, 152. (more)


reading about summer camps (where my daughter hangs out), cemeteries
 (where i hang out), and lawren harris (who hung out at mountains). would he be called a 'trustafarian' today?

Sunday, 2016 July 3


 

Reading about Guido Molinari (1933-2004) and the Plasticiens, a group of artists in Quebec in the '50s who 'sought to objectify paintings instead of paint objects.' Though Molinari painted some Plasticien-style paintings, he found the work in their first exhibit (before he was influenced by them) 'timorous, the colours muffled, and the compositions hardly freed from Cubism.' Abstract Painting In Canada, 166.