Sunday, March 22, 2015

Kazimir Malevich - Running man, 1933.


Marlon Brando at Orly Airport in Paris, 1959. Photo by Boris Lipnitzki


Malcolm X at a meeting in Paris, November 23, 1964




    White interviewer: If it was our white ancestors who bought you and enslaved you, we are their children. We are the new generation. Why don't you call us your brothers?
    Malcolm X: A man has to act like a brother before you can call him a brother. You made a very good point, really, that needs some clarification. If you are the son of the man who had a wealthy estate and you inherit your father's estate, you have to pay off the debts that your father incurred before he died. The only reason that the present generation of white Americans are in the position of economic strength that they are is because their fathers worked our fathers for over 400 years with no pay. For over 400 years we worked for nothing. We were sold from plantation to plantation like you sell a horse, or a cow, or a chicken, or a bushel of wheat. It was your fathers who did it to our fathers, and all of that money that piled up from the sale of my mother and my grandmother and my great-grandmother is what gives the present generation of American whites [the ability] to walk around the earth with their chest out; you know, like they have some kind of economic ingenuity. Your father isn't here to pay his debts. My father isn't here to collect. But I'm here to collect and you're here to pay.

- Kasimir Malevich

Honor to the Futurists who forbade the painting of female hams,

the painting of portraits and guitars in the moonlight.

They made a huge step forward: they abandoned meat

and glorified the machine.

    -  Kasimir Malevich

Red house (Красный Дом) by Kasimir Malevich (1932) St. Petersburg


Saturday, March 7, 2015

Do you? Think?


Elvin Jones-One of the greatest percussionists of all time


Leonardo da Vinci


Of the greatest defect in painters. It is the greatest defect in painters to repeat the same movements and the same faces and draperies in a composition and to make most of the faces resemble their author. This has often surprised me, for there are some who have made selfportraits of all their figures, all with the manners and movements of him who painted them. And if he is lively in his speech and his gestures, his figures are equally lively ; and if the master is devout, the figures appear to be the same, with their necks bent ; and if the master does little, his figures seem to be portraits of laziness personified ; and if the master is poorly proportioned, the figures are of the same kind, and if he is mad, this is amply revealed in his pictures, which are deprived of all logic, the figures not attending to what they are doing, but looking here to the right, there to the left, as if they were dreaming. And thus, every characteristic of the painting corresponds to a characteristic of the painter himself.
Having repeatedly thought about the cause of this defect, it seems to me one must believe that the soul, which rules and governs the body, also forms our judgment, even before we have formed it ourselves ; * thus it is the soul that has shaped the whole figure of the man as it judges best, with the nose long, or short, or flat, and in the same way determined the height and general appearance ; and this judgment is so powerful it moves the arm of the painter and makes him copy himself, because it seems to the soul that this is the true way to paint a man, and that whoever does not do as it does, is mistaken. * And when it finds someone who resembles the body it has composed, it likes him and often falls in love with him ; and that is why many men fall in love with and marry women who resemble them and often the children born to them resemble their parents

Johannes Kepler- Father, Son and Holy Spirit?


Christopher Kane, Resort 2014


DV8 Physical Theatre: Hannes Langolf in “John” (2010)


Veiled Women, North Africa, (c.1930)


I was coming back home very late. Suddenly I was attacked by a man with a gun. He wanted to rob me. I prayed to the Virgin of Zapopan, and suddenly a very handsome man decidedly blocked the robber’s way. The robber got scared and ran away. And now I ask you, Virgin, please make so this magnificent man would marry me.


Meroë Head of Augustus is a bronze head of the 1st Emperor and was found in the ancient Nubian Site of Meroë in Sudan


Leonardo da Vinci: Ginevra de’ Benci (detail), ca.1474


René Magritte, Lola, 1948


David sneered at their work, it was jejeune and hackneyed.


Friday, March 6, 2015

Jack Strange Worried Couple 2009 cardboard, nails 13 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches; 34.3 x 31.8 cm


Teenage girls wearing the fashion trend of 1953; dog collars fastened around their ankles, on the right if you had a boyfriend and on the left if you were single


Robert Irwin: Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow & Blue (2006).


Marlon Brando in ” Reflections in a golden eye” (John Huston, 1967)


Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Whatever I do, I do not repent, I keep pissing against the Moon, 1558


Let's try that again , why don't we...

"IN THE SUMMER of 1937, the twenty-nine-year-old art critic of the London Spectator went over to Paris to see Picasso’s newly unveiled “Guernica.” Turbulent acclaim surrounded this great cry of outraged humanity. The critic’s finding, which was printed on August 6th, was severely dismissive. The painting was “a private brain-storm which gives no evidence that Picasso has realised the political significance of Guernica.” In his column for October 8th, the critic, Anthony Blunt, reviewed Picasso’s ferocious series of etchings on the “Dream and Life of Franco.” Again he was negative. These works “cannot reach more than the limited coterie of aesthetes.” Picasso was blind to the sovereign consideration that the Spanish Civil War was “only a tragic part of a great forward movement” toward the defeat of Fascism and the ultimate liberation of the common man. The future belongs to an artist like William Coldstream, declared The Spectator’s critic on March 25, 1938. “Picasso belongs to the past.”"
George Steiner

Countdown for Cindy (cover study) - Artist: James E. Bama 1964 (via x-ray delta one)


FUKUDA Heihachirō(福田平八郎, Japanese 1892-1974) 筍 Bamboo Shoots 1947


[TATIANA NIKOLAEVNA ROMANOVA, 1910]


Grandmother Michaud in Silhouette, Edouard Vuillard.