Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Monday, November 24, 2014
Friday, November 21, 2014
Born today... René Magritte, November 21, 1898, Lessines, Belgium
Studies for the beyond, ca 1938 Pencil on Paper
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré ... from the series Mythological Beast... 1948
In the 1970s, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré started to transfer his thoughts to hundreds of small drawings in postcard format, using a ballpoint pen and colour crayons. These drawings, gathered under the title of Connaissance du Monde (Knowledge of the World), form an encyclopedia of universal knowledge and experience. Other projects, such as Readings from Signs Observed in Oranges (1988), serve as visionary records of divination. For Bouabré, his drawings are representation of everything that is revealed or concealed—signs, divine thoughts, dreams, myths, the sciences, traditions—and he views his role as an artist as a redemptive calling. He has stated: “Now that we are recognized as artists, our duty is to organize into a society, and in such a way to create a framework for discussion and exchange among those who acquire and those who create. From that could arise a felicitous world civilisation.”
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“the heavens opened up before my eyes and seven colorful suns described a circle of beauty around their Mother-Sun, I became Cheik Nadro: ‘He who does not forget.’”
Friday, November 14, 2014
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Alastair (Hans Henning Voight)...watercolour drawing 1929
an illustration for the Black Sun Press edition of Les Liasons Dangereuses c.1929
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Victor Brauner...Anthropomorphic Mimicry of the collective consciousness 1961
oil, wax, wood and bark on panel
Monday, November 10, 2014
Toyen (MARIE ČERMÍNOVÁ) 1902-1980.... Portrait of Andre Breton ... 1950
signed and dedicated à andré Breton / Toyen / 18 II 1950
crayon, charcoal, oil and glitter on linen, held by two wood batons as a scroll
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