previous Jan KONPEK posts
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
The graphics works of Arthur Boyd (4 Jul 1920–24 Apr 1999) part 2
Arthur Boyd was one of Australia’s most widely respected and prolific artists. He was born in 1920 in Melbourne, Victoria and was part of a dynamic generation of artists and thinkers, which included Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, and Joy Hester. Boyd was brought up in a lively family of practicing artists, with whom he studied and developed his painting and printmaking.
My favourite of his pieces are collaborations with one of my favourite poets fellow Australian Peter Porter, whom he collaborated with on 4 books during 70s and 80s.
Jonah 1973, The Lady and the Unicorn 1975, Mars 1988 and
Narcissus 1984 ( images shown below)
Narcissus, Seckers & Warburg London 1984
"But what Arthur & I was trying to do in Narcissus was sort of turn upside & like the rest of us when you look in the water we are turned upside down. that we wanted to produce, of really really how the Natural world doesn't . . . we don't see ourselves in the Natural world. The Natural world, in fact, enters us and becomes ,well, becomes really a kind of life, it has a pilgrimage through us. "
Peter Porter
A wonderful collection of drawings and prints
The graphics works of Arthur Boyd (4 Jul 1920–24 Apr 1999) part 1...
Lady and the Unicorn
Dream of an Intelligent Woman
Poem illustration Peter Porters Postlude
Poem illustration Peter Porters Echos half moon calf
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Peter Porter's poem 'The unicorn's prison song'
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
Saturday, September 18, 2010
My Drawings ... Vowed Series 2 & 4
Dolorosa - Vowed Series No. 2 2010
Dolorosa - Vowed Series No. 4 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 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!
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
Friday, September 10, 2010
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