Showing posts with label drawings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drawings. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Francis Picabia ... Untitled drawing & poem





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Gstaad

The sea pitches endlessly
The role mirrors her pupils
From memory
So mirthful
Swaying of gravity
Expresses a resonance
Of constant desires
I have excuses
And lack strength and courage
influence is a useless thing
She is the most beautiful of the women
On my mind 

previous PICABIA



Saturday, November 6, 2010

Unica Zürn... drawing...





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Unica Zürn - En Permission 1962

scan from Unica Zürn Bilder 1953-1970 Verlag Brinkmann und Bose Berlin 1998



Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Early Manuscripts... Latin Gospels...





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Latin Gospels with beast-headed evangelist portraits made at Landévennec, Brittany, late 9th or early 10th century





Thursday, September 16, 2010

Monday, September 13, 2010

Austin Osman Spare... drawings & paintings





in the anticipation of attending the exhibition of the year
at the Cuming Museum in London, here are a few Spare treats!
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 Idiocy - Automatic Drawing


As above so below, this is never sufficiently realized. . . . Remorse? Nay, do unto thyself all things, fearlessly. Finality is reached when ye have learned to digest everything. What is all man-slaughter but what ye have done unto yourself? Only where there is necessity is ther death. Dispense with all 'means' to an end. There is nothing higher than joyous sensation. Eternal Self! these millions of bodies I have outworn! Oh, sinister ecstasy. I am thy vicious self pleasure that destroyeth all things. Distrust thy teacher, for 'divine truth' has prevented better men from wisdom. In such revelation there is no suggestion. Do thy utmost unto others: But be surely what thou wilt: and keep thy belief free of morality. Observe thyself by sensation: thus know the finer perturbations and vibrations. This much shalt thou learn: To love all men, for there will be compulsion.

from The Focus of Life ~ AOS


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previous  AOS POSTS



Sunday, September 5, 2010

Rose O'Neill...drawing...Sweet monsters...




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“I am in love with magic and monsters,
and the drama of form emerging from the formless.”
 




Thursday, August 26, 2010

Austin Osman Spare... Satyr




from
The Later Work of Austin Osman Spare 1927-1956
by William Wallace


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"I am the Living Lie. In a World of Lies it is necessary to create reality" Satyros in Stroud 1924


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Satyros at Stroud, 1924


"The only teaching possible is to show a man how to learn from his own wisdom, and to utilise his ignorance and mistakes. Not by obscuring his vision and intention by righteousness."

from the Book of Pleasure - The psychology of ecstasy- 
Austin Osman Spare 

previous AOS posts



Sunday, July 18, 2010

Unica Zürn... Portrait of Hans Bellmer 1965



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The staging of gesture, in a processus of transformation and metamorphosis, the patient weaving of memories, through "chinks in line": Unica Zurn has probably succeeded in her project of BEING. All the while waiting for her "magical encounter" - with the white-hair man, with Death?
" When i was a child i dreamt/ about the marriage with a white-hair man paralysed./ tied to a wheel chair forever.../ Behind us, eternal./ blossomed the Jasmine/ And this is the meaning of my legend/ of life together.../ Since my chilhood wedding, in a white dress-/ I feel that I gradually become white.../ To swim into the White, to perceive finally/ the White Image?"

 from an essay by Barbara Safarova "The magical encounter between writing and image"



Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Cadavre Exquis ...



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Greta Knutson, Tristan Tzara, Valentine Hugo, Cadavre exquis 1929



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Nusch Eluard, Valentine Hugo, Andre Breton, Paul Eluard 1930


Monday, July 5, 2010

Happy Birthday... Jean Cocteau ...drawing



Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau
5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963

 
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The poet doesn’t invent. He listens. ~ Jean Cocteau 


previous JC 1



Tuesday, May 25, 2010

William S Burroughs....drawing...



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Nasty Young Cop


Q : Have you been able to think for any length of time in images  with the inner voice silent?


WB :  I'm becoming more proficient at it, partly through my work with scrapbooks and translating the connections between words and images. Try this. Carefully memorize the meaning of a passage, then read it; you'll find you can actually read it without the words making any sound whatever in the mind's ear. Extraordinary experience, and one that will carry over into dreams. When you start thinking in images, without words, you're on the way.




Thursday, May 20, 2010

Austin Osman Spare... drawing





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Astral Body 1925


"Know the subconsciousness to be an epitome of all experience and wisdom, past incarnations as men, animals, birds, vegetable life, etc., etc., everything that exists, has and ever will exist."






 

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Sherana Harriette Frances... drawings..part 1



The LSD drawings of Sherana Harriette Frances


a few scans from a favourite book of mine

Drawing it out ~ Befriending the Unconscious ~

the book originated as a wordless visual dialogue between her conscious and unconscious mind, catalyzed by her experience with LSD at the international Institute for Advanced Study around 1963



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Saturday, March 13, 2010