Vitro NasuIconoclastic Incubator
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(Homage to Eiko Hosoe Man and Woman #20)
As Simone de Beauvoir in the bathroom.
(When Simone was visiting Nelson Algren in Chicago)
(Happy birthday Papa Hemingway – July 21)
Artist whose work was rooted in the city, people and daily life of London
One of the most important figurative painters at work today and commonly associated with a circle of School of London painters that includes Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and R.B. Kitaj. At the centre of Kossoff’s work is the human figure either in isolation or in urban or domestic settings and the subject is always intimately known, whether it be the seated studio subject or people in the streets of the city.
Remembering Leon Kossoff Through His Scenes of Anxiety and Disquiet
Leon Kossoff via Timothy Taylor
Robert Therrien, Maker of Whimsical Sculptures That Enlarge the Everyday, Dead at 71
Phone wires (See more here)
Sometimes people ask whether I am a romantic or a realist artist. I would hope that I fall between the two. . . The ideal artist looks at the future and the past at the same time. The romantic artist spends more time looking backwards. The realist attempts to work in the present but emphasizes the future. However, if you try to predict the future, you seldom succeed.
—Robert TherrienOver the past four decades, Robert Therrien (1947–2019) cultivated an expansive vernacular of forms drawn from memory and the everyday. Seemingly simple subjects—including snowmen, bows, and oilcans—acquire multiple levels of reference and association, while outsized sculptures of stacks of plates, tables and chairs, and beards shift between the ordinary and the surreal. The repetitive perfecting of chosen motifs is central to his work, imbuing objects and images with intentionality and a latent sense of the unattainable.
Red Room 
Sculptures for Giants by Robert Therrien
Sad news – RIP Joyce Pensato
From 2018 article – Beer with a painter Joyce Pensato
Donald as a Crossdresser 
(Elgawimmer)
1999, charcoal and pastel on paper
10 feet x 14 feet
From the Head & Other Places
(Elgawimmer)
Joyce Pensato homepage
Felix Lincoln
Triple Trouble II
Tony DeLap, Maker of Inventive Abstract Art That Embraced Illusion and Magic, Is Dead at 91
See More at Artsy
DeLap rose to prominence in 1964 when an illustration of his work was featured on the cover of Artforum magazine alongside a glowing review by then-Editor-at-large John Coplans. The work, exhibited at San Francisco’s Dilexi Gallery, was a series of two-sided glass boxes with edges that descended inward toward the center.
By the late 1960s, DeLap was among artists including Billy Al Bengston, Craig Kauffman and Larry Bell who were pioneering what came to be known as the “Finish Fetish,” with an emphasis on clean lines, simple shapes and bright, monochromatic colors.
“He is apart from and yet entirely amidst the whole trajectory of geometric abstract art in California,” said longtime friend, curator and critic Peter Frank. “He’s not quite a minimalist, he’s not quite a traditional abstract artist, but he relates to all of them and did so early on.”
As the first art professor to be hired at UC Irvine, DeLap influenced generations of artists including Bruce Nauman, Chris Burden, John McCracken and James Turrell.
Lawrence 
Carroll
The Australian-born, American-raised painter Lawrence Carroll—known for his expressively elegant, restrained sculptural pictures often assembled from found materials—has died. (Artforum)
Nobuo Sekine (1942–2019)
Conceptual artist Nobuo Sekine—whose ephemeral, site-specific sculptural and installation works were associated with Mono-ha (the School of Things), the postwar Japanese art movement active in the late 1960s to the mid ’70s—died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was seventy-six years old.(Artforum Obit)
(Phase of Nothingness – Cloth and Stones)
Nobuo Sekine and his Phase of Nothingness (1969) installed at the Japanese Pavilion, 35th Venice Biennale, 1970. Photo by Yoriko Kushigemachi. © Nobuo Sekine.
Untitled – 2010
photo via (See more paintings here)
Thomas Nozkowski passed away (Art News)
Thomas Nozkowski (b. 1944, Teaneck, New Jersey, d. 2019) is recognized for his richly colored and intimately scaled abstract paintings and drawings that push the limits of visual language. An awareness of perception and the desire to explore the possibilities of seeing, is at once grounded in reality for the artist and released from specific legibility. His concurrent practices of painting and drawing reflect on specific places and experiences—from the deeply symbolic to the notational—translating sensations and memories into abstract compositions
See his many striking photos here
Ivan Regina posted on April 13, that he was feeling sick. He fell into a comma as Notre Dame de Paris was burning.
He loved life and art, will miss him greatly.. he taught me a French expression, “Très maitrisé”
It means “under control”, and more.. he explained.
Crottes de chameaux – (camel dung, Ivan referred to the rock formation)
PapagoCrottes de chameaux -(merci Ivan Regina)
Posted by Fung-Lin Hall on Monday, April 27, 2009
Ivan Regina (above) – to Heros Fragiles
(Time Lapse – previous blog presentation)
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Nod le Fou, Ivan Régina, juillet 2009
Adieu Agnes Varda, she died at 90. (BBC obit)
I fought for radical cinema all my life – Agnes Varda (Her last interview at Guardian)
(Agnes Varda and Jr while filming Faces and Places)
Interview: This is Part of the Work- Agnes Varda
She studied art history at the Louvre, but at night took classes on photography.
Greatest of the great’ – Agnès Varda: the eternally youthful soul of world cinema
Criterion – Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand – partners in song
(Repost)
