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Dada Picabia

Picabia at MoMa..

Francis Picabia – 22 January 1879 – November 30, 1953

Poet, painter, self-described funny guy, idiot, failure, pickpocket, and anti-artist par excellence, Francis Picabia was a defining figure in the Dada movement; indeed, André Breton called Picabia one of the only “true” Dadas.

Picabia

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Daughter Born without Mother
1916-18

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L’oeil Cacodylate, 1921

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I Am A Beautiful Monster
Who is with me is against me.

Duchamp, Beatrice Wood at Coney Island

“Entr’acte,” the avant-garde film he made in 1924 with René Clair, and his contentious series of figurative paintings from the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. Borrowing from art history, soft-core pornography and commercial art, they presage Pop Art, appropriation art and Neo-Expressionism.

Perpetual Movement

“Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction” is a Picabia aphorism consistent with another one: “The only movement is perpetual movement.” The show has a propulsive, joyous energy. Something new, different and often challenging waits in nearly every gallery.

Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing

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Boneyard, 1990 by Christian Marclay
hydrostone casts of telephone receivers, in 750 parts
dimensions variable

Nabokov –

Here something interesting to read about Nabokov –

Nabokov Butterflies (wiki)

Name these children album..

Leonard Cohen

Can’t imagine a world without Leonard Cohen, a deep void we must face in “Future” and hear his song again.

Lonard Cohen dead at 82 (Rolling Stone)

Yeats and Federico Garcia Lorca were Cohen’s favorite poets.

Long time ago I was about 15 in my hometown of Montreal, I was rumbling through….or rambling as you say down here. We say “rumbling” .Actually we don’t say that at all. I was rumbling through this bookstore in Montreal. And I came upon this old book, a second-hand book of poems by a Spanish poet. I opened it up and I read these lines : “I want to pass through the arches of Elvira, to see your thighs and begin weeping”. Well that certainly was a refreshing sentiment. I began my own search for those arches those thighs and those tears….Another line “The morning through fistfuls of ants at my face” It’s a terrible idea. But this was a universe I understood thoroughly and I began to pursue it, I began to follow it and I began to live in it. And now these many years later, it is my great privilege to be able to offer my tiny homage to this great Spanish poet, the aniversary of whose assassination was celebrated two years ago. He was killed by the Civil Guards in Spain in 1936. But my real homage to this poet was naming my own daughter Lorca. It was Federico Garcia Lorca. I set one of his poems to music and translated it. He called it “Little Vienese Waltz”. My song is called “Take this Waltz”.

Cohen and Dylan

With Sonny Rollings – Who by Fire

More from Leonard Cohen Archive.

Raoul Coutard died
(travellinglight Raoul Coutard and Jean Luc godard on the set of le petit soldat)

Lola
Jacques Demy

Raoul Coutard and Truffaut

Two films by Truffaut – here.

Shoot the Piano Player

The Soft Skin

Le Petit Soldat by JL Gordard

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Velázquez Portraits: Truth in Painting at the Met
November 4, 2016–March 12, 2017

Self Portrait
Diego Velázquez – Self Portrait, 1645 (Uffizi)

Velazquez Artchive

In the earliest portrait of Felipe Prospero, the prince rests his hand on the chair, symbol of royal status and power. In that chair, a sweet dog rests happily. Arthur C. Danto, the already cited professor of philosophy from Columbia, comments:

“Given the chair in the rigid semiotics of courtly etiquette in Spain, something is being conveyed beyond the fact that spoiled dogs climb into furniture in which courtiers would not dare to sit. Some metaphysical joke? Or the suggestion that dogs hold some rank in nature higher than slaves or even courtiers: All I know is that a dog in a chair is not innocent naturalism.”

Pareja, his mulatto slave whom he had taught to paint. In it, he endowed Juan, whom he freed, with a majestic presence, adorning him with a fancy lace collar, a luxurious form of adornment forbidden by the sumptuary laws of the time, especially to someone of his social category.

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Picasso’s Meninas by Richard Hamilton

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A portrait of Philip IV by Velázquez and Mark Z. (Photo collage by Toni Dalton)