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Showing posts with label drawings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drawings. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Unica Zürn... drawing...
she opens out, forming a shining star
made of countless new arms and legs
made of countless new arms and legs
and necks and heads,
she becomes a beautiful, flower-like monstrosity....
Monday, January 31, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Francis Picabia ... Untitled drawing & poem
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
more poems >
previous PICABIA
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Unica Zürn... drawing...
Unica Zürn - En Permission 1962
scan from Unica Zürn Bilder 1953-1970 Verlag Brinkmann und Bose Berlin 1998
scan from Unica Zürn Bilder 1953-1970 Verlag Brinkmann und Bose Berlin 1998
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Early Manuscripts... Latin Gospels...
Latin Gospels with beast-headed evangelist portraits made at Landévennec, Brittany, late 9th or early 10th century
from the Bodleian Library
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Jan Konupek (1883-1950)...
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Unica Zürn...excerpts from The House of Illnesses...part 2
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! 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
previous AOS POSTS
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Rose O'Neill...drawing...Sweet monsters...
“I am in love with magic and monsters,
and the drama of form emerging from the formless.”
and the drama of form emerging from the formless.”
more at Rose O'Neill org
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Austin Osman Spare... Satyr
from
The Later Work of Austin Osman Spare 1927-1956
The Later Work of Austin Osman Spare 1927-1956
by William Wallace
"I am the Living Lie. In a World of Lies it is necessary to create reality" Satyros in Stroud 1924
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
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Austin Osman Spare.... Redundant Isle
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Unica Zürn... Portrait of Hans Bellmer 1965
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 ...
Greta Knutson, Tristan Tzara, Valentine Hugo, Cadavre exquis 1929
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
The poet doesn’t invent. He listens. ~ Jean Cocteau
previous JC 1
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
William S Burroughs....drawing...
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.
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.
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