Christo and Jean-Claude: Wrapped Coast

Notes from the Introduction to Realism, Materialism, Art; Sternberg Press 2015

Contains notes on the introduction to the book. Authors: Christoph Cox, Jenny Jaskey, and Suhail Malik

HISK open day, plus SMAK Ghent and WIELS Brussels, May 2015, Ghent

(Includes work by various authors, will need to track down from Instagram and update.)

Rob Tufnell: Paul Elliman launches Beyond Police Call

Paul Elliman’s ‘Beyond Police Call’ 2014, comprises of all the equipment
required to turn a car into a police car (radios, sirens, lights etc). The
resulting stack of equipment (purchased from internet retailers) is
presented on the gallery floor as an informal sculpture. The lights have
been slowed to the frequency of an average human pulse.

Great internet discovery: Monoskop

A great Friday morning is glorified by a great internet discovery called Monoskop - a collaborative wiki research on the history of art, culture and media technology.

Paul Klee on Modern Art

55. Paul Klee, On Modern Art, p. 53: "The legend of the childishness of my drawing must have originated from those linear compositions of mine in which I tried to combine a concrete image, say that of a man, with the pure representation of the linear element. Had I wished to present man 'as he is,' then I should have had to use such a bewildering confusion of lines that pure elementary representation would have been out of the question. The result would have been vagueness beyond recognition."

Source: A Thousand Plateaus; Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari; p. NOTES TO PP. 342-350 □ 551

Development of art psychology: a rough mind map

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_of_art

John Ruskin, The Elements of Drawing - things to be studied

1. Always right: Titian, Veronese, Tintoret, Giorgione, John Bellini and Velasquez. 2. Questionable: Van Eyck, Holbein, Perugino, Francia, Angelico, Leonardo da Vinci, Corregio, Vandyck, Rembrandt, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Turner and the modern Pre-Raphaelites.

3. Most desirable: Samuel Prout (Rhine), John Lewis (sketches in Spain), George Cruikshank (Grimm's german Stories), Alfred Rethel (Dance of Death, Death the Avenger, Death the Friend), Bewick, Blake (Book of Job), Richter (illustrations to Lord's Prayer), Rosetti (edition of Tennyson).

Masha and Sasha's drawing - a fabulous art from my nieces!

Yayoi Kusama and Alighiero Boetti shows at Tate Modern

Throes of Art Illustrated

Great news is that my work can now be seen at 56 stuff's Throes of Art Illustrated, a collaborative project which is now online!