A sweet animation video by Patrick Jean
May 20, 2010
May 19, 2010
Influences – Fuseli & Blake
The British painter Henry Fuseli (the guy that painted the hyper-famous “The Nightmare”) was an important influence on many painters, notably the great William Blake.
Fuseli’s painting on Hamlet confronting the ghost of his father
reminds me a lot of Blake’s style, as in for instance “The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve”:
May 3, 2010
Flashbook – Shores
New Flashbook – Shores
note: Flashbooks have sounds, so LOWER YOUR VOLUME! When it finishes downloading (may take a bit), right click on black square, press PLAY, and flip pages! NOTE: If the right column interferes with the Flashbook then ZOOM OUT (CTRL-)
March 16, 2010
Flashbook – Looking like…
New Flashbook – Looking like…
note: Flashbooks have sounds, so LOWER YOUR VOLUME! When it finishes downloading (may take a bit), right click on black square, press PLAY, and flip pages! NOTE: If the right column interferes with the Flashbook then ZOOM OUT (CTRL-)
March 15, 2010
Boredom
The other day while reading Walter Benjamin I came across this phrase:
We are bored when we don’t know what we are waiting for. That we do know, or think we know, is nearly always the expression of our superficiality or inattention. Boredom is the threshold of great deeds –Now it would be important to know: What is the dialectical antithesis to boredom?
This made me think immediately on Tu m’ (1918), the last painting by Marcel Duchamp (French / American, 1918 – 1968), one of the biggest icons to emerge from the Dadaist / Surrealist movement:
Tu m’; image taken from the Yale art gallery
The title has been said to be a shortening of the French “tu m’ennuies” or the more vulgar “tu m’emmerdes"; usually translated as “you bore me" (though other possibilities have been suggested too). This title may well express his feelings towards painting; an idea strengthened by the fact that this was his last work.