AnthonySEaston (9:08:31 PM): 1) the van paintings, undone and unable to do
2) the icons, which i am getting a bad review of
3) other projects i am thinking of, that i wanted yr help with
4) NEVILLE
AnthonySEaston (9:11:03 PM): i should have been more clear on the seperation
paintedhuman (9:11:06 PM): 1) well, how to do them? different media?
paintedhuman (9:11:13 PM): 2? why bad reviews? what happened?
paintedhuman (9:11:18 PM): 3) what projects?
paintedhuman (9:11:31 PM): 4) at the moment, neville can go suck gelato.
AnthonySEaston (9:15:16 PM): 1) im not quite show
2) people think the work is sloppy, and are not picking up that it is strategic
3) the should i eat a peach poster with rachel, we have some ideas, but i wanted to vet them
b) the prserbyertian naems of god project
c) on my blog, is a AMG guide
the names of god, i want to stencil, black, the new names of god, really precise and clean, on the kind of sublime picture wall paper you see on raymonds walls, but not sure how to make the text pop, or if that works and dont know where i get the material
i want to embrodier the amg guide, as a whole, on gold lame, using pink thread, i dont know hwo to do this or if thsi is a good idea
4) neville?
paintedhuman (9:16:20 PM): 1) not quite show?
paintedhuman (9:16:25 PM): 2) explain it to them.
paintedhuman (9:16:53 PM): oooh... embroidery.
paintedhuman (9:16:54 PM): AMG?
AnthonySEaston (9:16:57 PM): the poster, transparent mylar posters, a clear one, then one with text, then one with me, then a plain plue background, then a photo of rachel, then one with pink, then another transparency...
AnthonySEaston (9:17:16 PM): Atheletic Model Guild
Show=sure
AnthonySEaston (9:17:31 PM): i am explaining, but shouldnt the concept be at least partially visible in the work?
AnthonySEaston (9:18:02 PM): http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4587/305/1600/amgcode.jpg
AnthonySEaston (9:18:07 PM): w/o the text
paintedhuman (9:19:14 PM): yes, i like the amg stuff.
AnthonySEaston (9:19:33 PM): you know the fotos right?
paintedhuman (9:19:33 PM): i think it'd work, esp with the inevitable "artist's statement" for those who actually don't get it.
paintedhuman (9:19:50 PM): the idea should be apparent in the work, but maybe yr audience is just stupid.
paintedhuman (9:19:57 PM): forgiven for posting me on flickr by the way.
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
talked to former mayor david crombie, who was kind and wise, and told me over he course of 20 minutes or so, powerful things about the nature and purpose of his kurelek's work , yesterday, with a bunch of juicy qoutes.
talked to art dealer david locke, who told me that it was not proper that he talk about ken thomsons art collection, for no real reason. i know that thomson is dead, but i dont understand why he bought this work over that work woulc be a state secret. he was also pompus.
so the 1 off 1 on pattern continues.
i also have a small peice (300 wds) on Eric Dorienger's bootleges published by Soma in November.
talked to art dealer david locke, who told me that it was not proper that he talk about ken thomsons art collection, for no real reason. i know that thomson is dead, but i dont understand why he bought this work over that work woulc be a state secret. he was also pompus.
so the 1 off 1 on pattern continues.
i also have a small peice (300 wds) on Eric Dorienger's bootleges published by Soma in November.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Drink also featured heavily in the life of George Brown, a Labor foreign secretary in the 1960's, who is once said to have stumblingly invited a guest in flowing purple robes at a reception in Peru to dance. But it was not to be.
"First, you are drunk," the guest is said to have replied. "Second, this is not a waltz; it is the Peruvian national anthem. And third, I am not a woman; I am the Cardinal Archbishop of Lima."
from the ny times via abstract nixon
"First, you are drunk," the guest is said to have replied. "Second, this is not a waltz; it is the Peruvian national anthem. And third, I am not a woman; I am the Cardinal Archbishop of Lima."
from the ny times via abstract nixon
William Kurelek was an outsider artist: he had the mental illness, the geographical isolation, the ethnic worries, the religious obsessiveness, and the monastic, heremtic strangeness expected of people reclaimed as art brut after death. William Kurelek was an insider artist, he was collected by governments, musuems, corperate collections and the industrial elite, his gallerist was among the most famous in Canada, and he was cunning in matters of personae, cash flow, and networking. His work is both cloying and visionary, rural nostalgia and apocolyptic terror, tender and daring. Thinking about the tensions and delicacies of the negotions, and the ambigous efect, 30 years after his death, is to question the very core of outsider status. Writing about this ambigiuty, i am hoping to return him to his proper status: the most important religiosu painter of the 20th century (with the possible exception of Stephen Spenser), and the most improtant canadian artist since Kreigoff.
Thesis
WK is an artist, that by all standards should be considered outsider. He was mentally ill, rural, painted in a vernacular style, was a religous visionary obsessed with the world ending in a nuclear apocolyspe, and had a heremetic, obsessive qaulity that should have been isolating. But he gained wealth, promienece and cannonical status through most ofhis life. His cunning turned the outside, into one of the most important artists in Canadian history. The emergence of an insider fame through outsider methods, implicity critiques contemparary art practice, and ask questiosn about what it means to be an outsider artist.
WK is an artist, that by all standards should be considered outsider. He was mentally ill, rural, painted in a vernacular style, was a religous visionary obsessed with the world ending in a nuclear apocolyspe, and had a heremetic, obsessive qaulity that should have been isolating. But he gained wealth, promienece and cannonical status through most ofhis life. His cunning turned the outside, into one of the most important artists in Canadian history. The emergence of an insider fame through outsider methods, implicity critiques contemparary art practice, and ask questiosn about what it means to be an outsider artist.
Sunday, September 24, 2006
AMG is the Atheltic Model Guild, these signifers were written on photos, as code to other photographers, and models...fascinting in its combo of sheer practicality, and the time when freudian identities were cemented, just before they would crumble for example: aesthetic, might be mother oriented or criminally inclined
from dude tube
D from San Antonio took 24 of these they are amazing
Hott!
Jerry Saltz keeps writing about the lack of women in art
music video
by Robert Siedel, abstract, biomophioc, slightly moving and crawling images, kind of like wht you see inside bodies, in those segments of house or csi, but more radically aestheticised...
sven nykist, who made beautiful imagryas a cintemographer for bergman, and then went on to do the hi/lo hollywood shuffle (his hollywood movies are so odd, he worked on the high trash of star 80, a seemy, brilliant, vaseline smeared decadent fosse film, and the quiet devotion of agnes of god, the silly sleepless in seattle, and the sublime oxen (which he also directed), and the unmentionably bad something to talk about)...i think that what he did was be the only egoless man in hollywood, taking his amaznig skill at making movies look good, and sublimated it under either studio or directors attention--his work for bergman looked like bergman should look,. his fosse out fossed fosse, his work on the unberable lightness of being, brought kundera to the front, and made the misogyny of the source text less impt, and he also allowed formans humanism to shine thru...even his work for sleepless made the town seem less desolate, more cozy, more romantic, and he made the empire state scene somehow uncheesy...
note: oxen is incredibly depressing, and difficult to describe, but it is basically abotu the injustice of every day life, about doing the right thing being unrewarded, and that life and death desicons are judged intesnely by civilissation, as bleak as bleak gets, its also one of the best films of the 90s
dozens of icons from the old church slavonic insitute...including this one:
i was wondering when Ashlee and Jessicas xian past would come to haunt them, thsi time, they have been caleld otu by own of their fathers own pastoring palls, bob harrington
the fcc is fucking with legistation requrinf clsoed captioning, making deaf people elss likely to be able to do what the rest of us take for granted--call yr congressmen
Top Ten Photos From Sqaure America:
more at www.sqaureamerica.com
WK
why he is an outsider
1) the mental illness
questions:
spec diagnosis
continued belief
medical or ?
2) the apoclyptica
sales of said work
how late was this done
the bomb shelter, and its commonness, in TO
3) the visonary strangeness
4) the prolifagacy
exact number of paintings, public commisions, prints, tapestries, drawings, et. al
5) ethnic concerns
not really a prarie painter, but his toronto work kind of looks like the beaches?
6) the naive or folk aesthetic
how much of this wasa signuture style, marketable, and not changed?
hos close is this to other, really naive painters, or folk painters in WC or the ukraine?
really quite sophiscated, in formal matters?
7) the use of work as religious or political agit prop or as anti aesthetic, even when it might be better to be politic
david crombie (but then they didnt notice for 10 years?)
is david crombie still alive?
are there other examples, other controversies that emereged about his public commissions?
why he is not an outsider
1) the connections to capital
but he always begged for money, though only one record of grant making
there was tussles about money, that letter in the isaacs collection about drawings for only 700...
and the bank statements, up to the 70s, he was sellign out shows
does capital matter, romance of poverty, etc
2) the placement of his work in promient collections, public spaces, et. al
(from the top of my head AGO, U of A, Winnipeg, Edmonton Galleries, London collections, the national gallery of canada, the collection of the queen mother, moma in ny (and the story of that, about hwo it was the only work being sold there), the thomson collection (the rock, basillian, 12k/a doesnt seem very much)
3) his manipulation of personae
rube, hand written letters, clumsy ukranian, anti semetic, et al
4) his abilty to manipulate the market, his savvy about that
did he do this?
5) the use of biographical narrative to frame himself as naive
see personae, it depends on how much of this was public personae, but the two books for tundra, and the immigrant (polish, uke, irish, jewish) series of prints
6) the connecting to a spec, mostly anglo/northern european (ie not ukranian) tradition of painting and print making
(ie blake, brueghel, bosch, et al--all mentioned in auto bio, etc)
how much of the stonewalling is my inability to be good at this shit, and how much is other general weirdness?
why he is an outsider
1) the mental illness
questions:
spec diagnosis
continued belief
medical or ?
2) the apoclyptica
sales of said work
how late was this done
the bomb shelter, and its commonness, in TO
3) the visonary strangeness
4) the prolifagacy
exact number of paintings, public commisions, prints, tapestries, drawings, et. al
5) ethnic concerns
not really a prarie painter, but his toronto work kind of looks like the beaches?
6) the naive or folk aesthetic
how much of this wasa signuture style, marketable, and not changed?
hos close is this to other, really naive painters, or folk painters in WC or the ukraine?
really quite sophiscated, in formal matters?
7) the use of work as religious or political agit prop or as anti aesthetic, even when it might be better to be politic
david crombie (but then they didnt notice for 10 years?)
is david crombie still alive?
are there other examples, other controversies that emereged about his public commissions?
why he is not an outsider
1) the connections to capital
but he always begged for money, though only one record of grant making
there was tussles about money, that letter in the isaacs collection about drawings for only 700...
and the bank statements, up to the 70s, he was sellign out shows
does capital matter, romance of poverty, etc
2) the placement of his work in promient collections, public spaces, et. al
(from the top of my head AGO, U of A, Winnipeg, Edmonton Galleries, London collections, the national gallery of canada, the collection of the queen mother, moma in ny (and the story of that, about hwo it was the only work being sold there), the thomson collection (the rock, basillian, 12k/a doesnt seem very much)
3) his manipulation of personae
rube, hand written letters, clumsy ukranian, anti semetic, et al
4) his abilty to manipulate the market, his savvy about that
did he do this?
5) the use of biographical narrative to frame himself as naive
see personae, it depends on how much of this was public personae, but the two books for tundra, and the immigrant (polish, uke, irish, jewish) series of prints
6) the connecting to a spec, mostly anglo/northern european (ie not ukranian) tradition of painting and print making
(ie blake, brueghel, bosch, et al--all mentioned in auto bio, etc)
how much of the stonewalling is my inability to be good at this shit, and how much is other general weirdness?
Thursday, September 21, 2006
print 75 photos at 5x7
make rectangular pages (3 images, per page)
photocopy pages
6 copies, to Ann Dean
in addition to AP, etc
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abb@albertabookbindery.com
make rectangular pages (3 images, per page)
photocopy pages
6 copies, to Ann Dean
in addition to AP, etc
Edmonton Bindires:
A-1 Bindery Service
4608-101 St. NW.
Edmonton, AB, T6E 5G9
Telephone: 780 435-5922
A1 Bindery Services
8880 48th Ave.
Edmonton, AB, T6E 5L1
Telephone: 780 435-5922
Fax: 780 430-7346
Advance Book Bindery
6803-78 Ave. NW.
Edmonton, AB, T6B 2P5
Telephone: 780 430-0856
Alberta Book Bindery
5817 97th St.
Edmonton, AB, T6E 3J2
Telephone: 780 435-8612
Fax: 780 437-1246
abb@albertabookbindery.com
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
an essay about japanese fetish clubs, the writing is subpar, but some of the images are great--see here
bizarre story of parents feeding both not healthy, and healthy food clandiestnely, after the jamie oliver campiagn against trash food in british schools
a sharp rise of homophobic violence in uganda
beautiful new tarot, availble in posters and clothing, but not the deck, which i want desperately, esp with the simple, colours and modernist humanism (and only major arcana as well)
Tapir and Snake, Brazillian, 19th Century
thousands of amtrak fotos: stations categorized by city, various kinds of trains, all types of tracks, cars, odd machinery, landscape, etc--i like the more boring examples, but sceniec has some great calendar type shots, but my favourite are the great shots from the stations, esp albany
china releases its first dyke pop song
American Airlines hates fags
A kiki smith bronze, from 2002?
so kitschy, with the neo classicism, and the xmas reindeer, made even more ott by rendering it in (unpaintaed) bronze, and its monumental size, and camp by her not realizing it--kikis work on the body and its excretions, are impt, but the shitting ladies and spider women are less interesting than the large runs of prints and book work
these bible cases made me realise how LDS I am, they are using a qaud to advertise
a california geography teacher gets fire for having foreign flags on his classroom walls
five photos of grafitti removal, the pink wall image is an amazing one
didion on cheney, haevnt read it yet
vernauclar foto blog
bizarre story of parents feeding both not healthy, and healthy food clandiestnely, after the jamie oliver campiagn against trash food in british schools
a sharp rise of homophobic violence in uganda
beautiful new tarot, availble in posters and clothing, but not the deck, which i want desperately, esp with the simple, colours and modernist humanism (and only major arcana as well)
Tapir and Snake, Brazillian, 19th Century
thousands of amtrak fotos: stations categorized by city, various kinds of trains, all types of tracks, cars, odd machinery, landscape, etc--i like the more boring examples, but sceniec has some great calendar type shots, but my favourite are the great shots from the stations, esp albany
china releases its first dyke pop song
American Airlines hates fags
A kiki smith bronze, from 2002?
so kitschy, with the neo classicism, and the xmas reindeer, made even more ott by rendering it in (unpaintaed) bronze, and its monumental size, and camp by her not realizing it--kikis work on the body and its excretions, are impt, but the shitting ladies and spider women are less interesting than the large runs of prints and book work
these bible cases made me realise how LDS I am, they are using a qaud to advertise
a california geography teacher gets fire for having foreign flags on his classroom walls
five photos of grafitti removal, the pink wall image is an amazing one
didion on cheney, haevnt read it yet
vernauclar foto blog
Spam:
The tribunal says that some pedophile is sane and has no mental
illness. The tribunal must not say that a rape is a
phisiological conduct, entailing no mental illness or disability, and
that pedophilia is not a insane behavior. Also crimes against the
patrimony are not physiological conducts.
A conduct can be pathological (biological group self destructive
activity), or non pathological (phisiological, genetic or non
genetic): no external or middle case is expected.
*****
Enemies and friends: of mental hygiene only. War is a condition
of pathology, a biological group self destructive activity :
doctors don't fight each other, in any conflict almost 1 fighter
is insane. If the police wouldn't chase the bank robbers,
economy of a planet would fall in few days, hospitals close,
children die : war is possible as a less pathological alternative.
Fighting with islam against the devil and mental illness : this
aptitude has no sane alternatives against lethal psychiatric epidemic :
for ignorance and unobservance, kamikaze bombers are enemies of
phisiology, they destroy the operate of their god for non
medical reason, they are agents of devil.
*****
Siegmund Freud lies not knowing to be lying: he is a conceptual
pedophile who says children has sexual attraction for parent
(edipus), and that mind is partitioned in 3 parts (ego superego
es). False premiss brings wrong result: like Freud says, cognitive
error is associated with pathological conduct.
"All fine at home? Do your parents act with you like with
friends? Is your parent clinically perfect? ": the medical doctor
must subministrate this or analogous enhanced suggestion to the
habitants for preventing or for healing, before programming any
other subministration. This is also a method the doctor can use to
investigate if a pathological behavior has environmental or genetic cause.
Earth's habitants kill gays but children arn't born gays,
habitants corrupt and kill children : this non genetic epidemic is
familiarly but not geneticaly transmitted.
Slapping child is a crime and a mania, evidently if child isn't
genetically stupid, handicapped, diseased, socially dangerous,
unable to understand words.
*****
1:28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and
increase in number ; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the
fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living
creature that moves on the ground."
Christians priests are not fruitful and contradict god : they
are heretics and agents of devil. With baptism christians
forgive themselfs from god's death sentence.
1:29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the
face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed
in it. They will be yours for food.
1:30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of
the air and all the creatures that move on the ground,
everything that has the breath of life in it, I give every
green plant for food " And it was so.
Chirstians don't eat only green plant : they trust in god to
contradict god. Eating cadavers for non nutritional reason is a
pathological conduct. Like lion is parasite of gazelle, mankind
is parasite of cow, for antinutritional and anticulinary reason :
eating cadavers induce genetic reflex of vomiting.
The tribunal says that some pedophile is sane and has no mental
illness. The tribunal must not say that a rape is a
phisiological conduct, entailing no mental illness or disability, and
that pedophilia is not a insane behavior. Also crimes against the
patrimony are not physiological conducts.
A conduct can be pathological (biological group self destructive
activity), or non pathological (phisiological, genetic or non
genetic): no external or middle case is expected.
*****
Enemies and friends: of mental hygiene only. War is a condition
of pathology, a biological group self destructive activity :
doctors don't fight each other, in any conflict almost 1 fighter
is insane. If the police wouldn't chase the bank robbers,
economy of a planet would fall in few days, hospitals close,
children die : war is possible as a less pathological alternative.
Fighting with islam against the devil and mental illness : this
aptitude has no sane alternatives against lethal psychiatric epidemic :
for ignorance and unobservance, kamikaze bombers are enemies of
phisiology, they destroy the operate of their god for non
medical reason, they are agents of devil.
*****
Siegmund Freud lies not knowing to be lying: he is a conceptual
pedophile who says children has sexual attraction for parent
(edipus), and that mind is partitioned in 3 parts (ego superego
es). False premiss brings wrong result: like Freud says, cognitive
error is associated with pathological conduct.
"All fine at home? Do your parents act with you like with
friends? Is your parent clinically perfect? ": the medical doctor
must subministrate this or analogous enhanced suggestion to the
habitants for preventing or for healing, before programming any
other subministration. This is also a method the doctor can use to
investigate if a pathological behavior has environmental or genetic cause.
Earth's habitants kill gays but children arn't born gays,
habitants corrupt and kill children : this non genetic epidemic is
familiarly but not geneticaly transmitted.
Slapping child is a crime and a mania, evidently if child isn't
genetically stupid, handicapped, diseased, socially dangerous,
unable to understand words.
*****
1:28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and
increase in number ; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the
fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living
creature that moves on the ground."
Christians priests are not fruitful and contradict god : they
are heretics and agents of devil. With baptism christians
forgive themselfs from god's death sentence.
1:29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the
face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed
in it. They will be yours for food.
1:30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of
the air and all the creatures that move on the ground,
everything that has the breath of life in it, I give every
green plant for food " And it was so.
Chirstians don't eat only green plant : they trust in god to
contradict god. Eating cadavers for non nutritional reason is a
pathological conduct. Like lion is parasite of gazelle, mankind
is parasite of cow, for antinutritional and anticulinary reason :
eating cadavers induce genetic reflex of vomiting.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
notes
Pomedli, M., Kurelek’s Huronia Mission Paintings, Canadian Studies vol. 14, Millen Press, 1991.
Rene Goupil is Martyred
Teh paintings is fileld with symbols: goupil's arms stretched out as an a cross; huis innoncen and self surrender, his puleld hair, and hsi dragging the dlogs like Isaac in the Old Testament adn like Jesus carrying the cross to the place of his death his half naked body and leggings in light filled kinship with the slaying Irqouis. the menacing dark trees adn sparse vegetation speak of adobndomemnt. As his paints, Teh Passion of Christ, kurelek etches both innocen adn suffering in blunt and blold reliefg. the depticiton evokes feelings of horror and revealtion... (95)
Kurelek sees the Iroquis, as some Jesuits and other Europeans did, in an oversimplifed manner, as animated soleby by demons. For kurlek, the misioanries are the only holy ones. Thus this terrible and freicous Iroquious is portrayed in the shadows, while an aura of lifht frames Jogues, whit amputed fingered hands, and arms outstretched. the sqaure, white, halo effect, was a common way of chartachtezing living saints in teh early church,. Here Jorgues is reminsecent of the suffered of Psalm 30:14-16 (qoute)
It is nto possible credibly to accept kureleks ocversimplifaction today. there was both virture adn vice on both sides. On the one hand, the Jesuits themselves wrote of the virtious qaulities the natives exhibited. On the other hand, evenio n the early ocntanct peroid, missionaries and other Europeans did native terrotires and cultural patterns... (?)
Kureleks central images, such as the one of Brebeuf here, are not dynamic figurs even though they mayb be portrayed in the stages of action Kuelek often outines his imagesi n black, freezing, and sexuring them as one does in a photogrpah. The artist wants no evancent image, no mixed messages, no greay areas. Kurelek has a persepctive which fixes his paossionite message within a boundary, but cannot delimit the intricaies of commic events nor the complexities of the chaachters involved. Brebeuf;s proporer jesuit training did not prepare him for the scurrilous language he encontred in Huronia...(37)
In 1959, he returned to Toronto and began to acheive commerical success in 1960, with ihs first one person show in the Isaacs Galelry. He married Jean Andrews in 1962, began a family, and completed his six year work on the sieres of 160 paintings: The passion of Chrsit According the St Matthew. Two major often interwoven autobiogrpahical strands predominate in Kureleks paintings, strangs which his Huronia Mission OPaintings share as well:
1) Un affecarted jotyful, playful and even joking themes;
2) Introspective, wistful, violent, unresolved adn seemingly unresovlable issues. Joan murrary charactizes thsi dualism as "innocent nostalgia, apcolyptic cisiion"
Kurelels prariing patings capture the first majoir strand of joyful innocnence. We get an expansive feeling for these fvast landscapesl we are amazed by their reality, by his fresh direct and authentic response...(5)
Kurelek: A Biography. Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1986.
Cannon remembers:"there were peoids of darkness and...brokenness in him. Its a lifetime work. He personfied the comandment to lvoe God and your neigoubourt, he lived that, adn cant do without pain. Healing is al ifelong thing, not instantious. He touched the worlds pain with Christ. Ave told me hed men crying in front of Bills Paintings"...(12) (Helen Cannon was a friend of WK, before he married Jean Andrew)
Bills religous faith restored his feeling of personal worth and lef him into a community of caring indiviudals where hsi self confience began to grow. His concious mythology was entirely God-centered. He credited God with hsi healing, adn found in his Christian faith a reason for his previous suffering. He saw his paintg as a God-given talent and a means to preachi n the marketyplace. He also saw himself a a kind of eremiah, altohough he never used this term. Firmly expecting both a coming Holocouast and a coming heaven, he waned hsi adueince of aprroaching cataclysm.... (5)
bill was fortunate in having as his promter a young dealer whose own star was rising just as fate brought them together in 1959. For his extrodinaorly rapid rise to promeimnce in the 1960s and 70s., the artis was indeopeted in no small measure to the support of the Issacs Galllery...As for his protest paintings, Issaacs described them as a acant garde at a tiem when fashionable art was abstract adn value free. Such paitnings had their own qaulity of abstraction in the way in which they dissected the surface into som,ple plances. Isaacs stressed that a unifed vision underlies the entire work, no matter what the ubject. There is an itnensity in his paintings which concers all hsi work int a relgiosu act" Thjat intentsity suffeused everything he touched. (7)
Bill's feelign that he was marked for a high destiny is...throughout hsi writings. His strong reaction to reading the life of Van Gigh concludes with his state befielf that out of his suffering he was destined tro produce grweat art. It must have been important to him, his oncidants share that view. In Mexico, during his first trip abroad... (?)
in the rereitten version of hsi autobiography, Bill speaks of goign to to England with two conciosu aims, to further his art school (his phrase is to "complete" it) and to fnid through hositalaztion as for his chronic depression adn inexplicable eye pains. Here, as elsewhere, he oversimplfies. Perhaps he found it less admirable simply to admit that he very much enjoyed travelling...(?)
continued later... (when i can find page numbers)
Pomedli, M., Kurelek’s Huronia Mission Paintings, Canadian Studies vol. 14, Millen Press, 1991.
Rene Goupil is Martyred
Teh paintings is fileld with symbols: goupil's arms stretched out as an a cross; huis innoncen and self surrender, his puleld hair, and hsi dragging the dlogs like Isaac in the Old Testament adn like Jesus carrying the cross to the place of his death his half naked body and leggings in light filled kinship with the slaying Irqouis. the menacing dark trees adn sparse vegetation speak of adobndomemnt. As his paints, Teh Passion of Christ, kurelek etches both innocen adn suffering in blunt and blold reliefg. the depticiton evokes feelings of horror and revealtion... (95)
Kurelek sees the Iroquis, as some Jesuits and other Europeans did, in an oversimplifed manner, as animated soleby by demons. For kurlek, the misioanries are the only holy ones. Thus this terrible and freicous Iroquious is portrayed in the shadows, while an aura of lifht frames Jogues, whit amputed fingered hands, and arms outstretched. the sqaure, white, halo effect, was a common way of chartachtezing living saints in teh early church,. Here Jorgues is reminsecent of the suffered of Psalm 30:14-16 (qoute)
It is nto possible credibly to accept kureleks ocversimplifaction today. there was both virture adn vice on both sides. On the one hand, the Jesuits themselves wrote of the virtious qaulities the natives exhibited. On the other hand, evenio n the early ocntanct peroid, missionaries and other Europeans did native terrotires and cultural patterns... (?)
Kureleks central images, such as the one of Brebeuf here, are not dynamic figurs even though they mayb be portrayed in the stages of action Kuelek often outines his imagesi n black, freezing, and sexuring them as one does in a photogrpah. The artist wants no evancent image, no mixed messages, no greay areas. Kurelek has a persepctive which fixes his paossionite message within a boundary, but cannot delimit the intricaies of commic events nor the complexities of the chaachters involved. Brebeuf;s proporer jesuit training did not prepare him for the scurrilous language he encontred in Huronia...(37)
In 1959, he returned to Toronto and began to acheive commerical success in 1960, with ihs first one person show in the Isaacs Galelry. He married Jean Andrews in 1962, began a family, and completed his six year work on the sieres of 160 paintings: The passion of Chrsit According the St Matthew. Two major often interwoven autobiogrpahical strands predominate in Kureleks paintings, strangs which his Huronia Mission OPaintings share as well:
1) Un affecarted jotyful, playful and even joking themes;
2) Introspective, wistful, violent, unresolved adn seemingly unresovlable issues. Joan murrary charactizes thsi dualism as "innocent nostalgia, apcolyptic cisiion"
Kurelels prariing patings capture the first majoir strand of joyful innocnence. We get an expansive feeling for these fvast landscapesl we are amazed by their reality, by his fresh direct and authentic response...(5)
Kurelek: A Biography. Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1986.
Cannon remembers:"there were peoids of darkness and...brokenness in him. Its a lifetime work. He personfied the comandment to lvoe God and your neigoubourt, he lived that, adn cant do without pain. Healing is al ifelong thing, not instantious. He touched the worlds pain with Christ. Ave told me hed men crying in front of Bills Paintings"...(12) (Helen Cannon was a friend of WK, before he married Jean Andrew)
Bills religous faith restored his feeling of personal worth and lef him into a community of caring indiviudals where hsi self confience began to grow. His concious mythology was entirely God-centered. He credited God with hsi healing, adn found in his Christian faith a reason for his previous suffering. He saw his paintg as a God-given talent and a means to preachi n the marketyplace. He also saw himself a a kind of eremiah, altohough he never used this term. Firmly expecting both a coming Holocouast and a coming heaven, he waned hsi adueince of aprroaching cataclysm.... (5)
bill was fortunate in having as his promter a young dealer whose own star was rising just as fate brought them together in 1959. For his extrodinaorly rapid rise to promeimnce in the 1960s and 70s., the artis was indeopeted in no small measure to the support of the Issacs Galllery...As for his protest paintings, Issaacs described them as a acant garde at a tiem when fashionable art was abstract adn value free. Such paitnings had their own qaulity of abstraction in the way in which they dissected the surface into som,ple plances. Isaacs stressed that a unifed vision underlies the entire work, no matter what the ubject. There is an itnensity in his paintings which concers all hsi work int a relgiosu act" Thjat intentsity suffeused everything he touched. (7)
Bill's feelign that he was marked for a high destiny is...throughout hsi writings. His strong reaction to reading the life of Van Gigh concludes with his state befielf that out of his suffering he was destined tro produce grweat art. It must have been important to him, his oncidants share that view. In Mexico, during his first trip abroad... (?)
in the rereitten version of hsi autobiography, Bill speaks of goign to to England with two conciosu aims, to further his art school (his phrase is to "complete" it) and to fnid through hositalaztion as for his chronic depression adn inexplicable eye pains. Here, as elsewhere, he oversimplfies. Perhaps he found it less admirable simply to admit that he very much enjoyed travelling...(?)
continued later... (when i can find page numbers)
Friday, September 15, 2006
Large sections of moscow risk collapsing because of underground parking garages
one of those large scale conceptual mail art things that seems to be popping up like mushrooms on the interweb, this one called stains on paper, and it features annotating stains on paper
they are selling old tube carriages, and offer to ship them
big interview with E Howard Hunt, a big player in central american anti commmunist activities for most of the 50s to the 70s, its almost nostaligic to read this now, the fear of communism seems almsot quaint. the american operations in gautlemea, among other places, were violent destabilzing, things, but listening to him say things like:
Slate: Some 200,000 civilians were killed in the civil war following the coup, which lasted for the next 40 years. Were all those deaths unforeseen?
Hunt: Deaths? What deaths?
Slate: Well, the civil war that ensued for the next 40 years after the coup.
Hunt: Well, we should have done something we never do—we should have maintained a constant presence in Guatemala after getting rid of Arbenz.
are not the condi era brinksmanship idea, but the long game, pax americana, view of present neo-cons--deaths, what deaths can be framed with bushes torture what torture (esp his recent interview with matt lauer, where he refuses to go off policy points, and looks foolish pressed slightly)
footage of the bush interview
(this is also very funny:
Slate: Did you ever actually meet Jacobo Arbenz?
Hunt: They [he and his wife] were neighbors of mine—years later—on the same street in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Slate: What were you doing there?
Hunt: I was the CIA chief of station.
They had come from [exile in] Czechoslovakia, and nobody in Washington had told me they were coming and so it was a big surprise to me, to my wife and me. We went to the country club for dinner one evening and lo and behold, the Arbenzes were seated a few tables away.
Slate: What did you do?
Hunt: Well, nothing. I sent a cable to Washington saying, "In the future when we have important arrivals, please let me know." It's the least they could do.
ideology matters less than power to he ruling classes
clear, concise, powerful, and non rhetorical writing, still angry from teh ajc, about iraq here
scans of the Toadstool, the preschool text children read in nazi germany, about the jews...not realy much different than what was always taught about the jews in germany--the effectiveness of the propghanda campaigns was to bring offical discourses seal of approval into unoffical discouse
Antler Arch, Jackson Whyoming
Bronze Age Paris funeral practices fail to work when there are no vultures left, and figuring out what to do about it is proving difficult.
a fomrer NOI, now a mainstream muslim (see Mohammed Ali, Ami Baraka, and Malcolm X) may actually win a senate seat in Minnesota
I wish the episcopals would quit talking and jsut get to the schism already--the latest set of meetings is in nyc
and some kiwi presberyians are handing out bumper stickers that say gays are cancer...
Massuchestts
legistors are cracking down on too high interest rates, and heavy morgtates
A banking system most common in 17th Century holland is making a comeback in senegal...and its collective.
Charger, from an updated and moderniszed Willow Pattern, its lovely...
(english designers, W2, they have full dinner sets)
here is a traditional willow pattern charger
Cautionary Tale of bad girls and good girls, from the 20s, beautiful examples of illustration
Sofia Coppala, in London, For Prada.
A lovely, sophiscated peice of film making
Steve Misel eroticises terror, for vogue italia...great images, including this one:
problems with the seires, are the usual left liberal problems of making pretty things that are dangerous, and the femmisnt probelms of staging highly ritualised tabeloux that center around violating women...but the whole seires reminds me the most of Death of Marat, a terrified, despeate plea to make something calm ordered and beautiful otu of a world that seems barely in control...aesthetically framing terror is one more way (and perhaps a safer way) of taking our emotions back...
here is the Death of Marat:
the horizontal and vertical interactiosn of power adn picture plane are vital to understanding both of them i think
the best thing about buck angel porn, is that he explodes any ideas of sexuality as concrete, he fucks straight men, gay men, straight women, lesbians, ftms, mtfs, post ops, pre ops...his polymorphus sexuality seems fairly common to the edges of performed gender adn sexuality, but he sells a fortune, been nominated for the avn awards, and is handsome, deeply handsome, without being parodic about it--he looks like any folsom street fair(y)...
susie bright talks about this in her blog this week:
Buck's dick, you see, was plastic. And once it fell to the ground, we could see that Buck, underneath his massive chest and six-pack abs, had a perfectly-shaped vulva and bulging clit.
there is something that changes when you see buck bottom for some shemale, her cock entering his cunt, something that moves around, b/c what you are seeing is a heterosexual act w/o anyt of the singifers for heterosexuality...
susie bright talks about this in her blog this week:
Buck's dick, you see, was plastic. And once it fell to the ground, we could see that Buck, underneath his massive chest and six-pack abs, had a perfectly-shaped vulva and bulging clit.
there is something that changes when you see buck bottom for some shemale, her cock entering his cunt, something that moves around, b/c what you are seeing is a heterosexual act w/o anyt of the singifers for heterosexuality...
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