Vitro Nasu

Yves Klein – (wonderful resources)
Blemheim Exhibition

Yve Klein Leap to the Void (web ride)

My Paintings are only the ashes of my art.
Yves Klein.

Yves Klein
Photo by Rene Burri

Yves Klein
interviewed by blue shoes at Chelsea Hotel (photo collage by Fung Lin Hall)

Yves Klein the Chelsea Hotel Manifesto

It is necessary to create and recreate a constant physical fluidity in order to receive the grace which allows a positive creativity of the void.

Judo master meditating the void.

Jean Tinguley and Yves Klein

Blue Bunny Klein Homage to Yves Klein

Yves Klein Blue installation via

Yves Klein (1928-1962) lived almost as short a life as Mozart and Jesus and Keats, but he lived long enough to make “Yves Klein Blue” his own and to make sure it would still be universally recognized as such more than half a century after his death. – Spencer Alley

Bertrand Tavernier’s Journey of French Cinema (He loves Jacques Becker and talked about what he learned from Melville.)
Bertrand assisted Melville in making on Leon Morin the Priest, which he praised as Melville’s masterpiece.

Bertrand Taverniar with Gaspard Ulliel (click to see large)
Discussion.. how he works & state of film industry & showing off his encyclopedic film knowledge appearing with Gaspard Ulliel..(on youtube)

Daddy Nostalgia.

(Dirk Bogarde, Tavernier and Jane Birkin in Daddy Nostalgia.)

Coup de Torchon – Noiret and Stephane Audran

A Sunday in a Country
Tavernier won the best director at Cannes with this film.(Exquisite and beautifully filmed family drama)

Dexter Gordon was nominated for an Oscar. (He should have won)

Click to see large

Safe Conduct (Laisser-Passer) by Bertrand Tavernier.
The film is almost 3 hours long. The first half was a bit frantic and confusing but the last half the film began to take shape and delivers.
Filmmaking under Nazi rule during the occupation in France is the theme and the central character played by an actor who was a real biker made this cycling resistence movie memorable. The film deals with a controversial and difficult subject.

He shares a birthday with Paul Mazursky and Cy Twombly
In this interview of Bertrand Tavernier

T: I like to deal with subjects that attract me. I’m interested in people fighting, trying to change things, making mistakes. But I like each film to be a challenge, [as if] it’s my first. When you do a film on adoption and you arrive in a place like Cambodia, anything can happen.

Ike no Taiga

Met Museum (Click on + to see Meng Jia Loses His Hat (left); The Chinese Poet Su Shi (right))

Ike No Taiga:Influence of the Middle Kingdom and humble background

Ike No Taiga :True View (Japan Times) travel painter.

‘The Genius of Ike no Taiga: Carefree Traveler, Legendary Painter,” at Kyoto National Museum, is magisterial. Edo Period (1603-1868) Kyoto teemed with big name painters, but Taiga (1723-1776) was superlative.

Paris Review:Lorna Simpson

Daring as a Woman: An Interview with Lorna Simpson

Photo Credit: Anders Jones via

Polka Dot and Bullet Holes #2, 2016

She

See Poets

Hauser & Wirth (63 works)

Hauser & Wirth also represents Monika Sosnowska (Polish artist)

Dia add Lorna Simpson

Darrow was the inspiration for the character of Johnathan Wilk in the 1956 novel Compulsion, a thinly fictionalized account of the Leopold and Loeb case. In 1959, the novel was adapted into a film of the same name, starring the legendary filmmaker Orson Welles as Wilk. Welles, whose closing monologue was the longest ever committed to film at that time, shared the Best Actor award with co-stars Bradford Dillman and Dean Stockwell at that year’s Cannes Film Festival.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow

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Related link
Dean Stockwell – Delicate to Delirium

Orson Welles and Pasolini

Life of Orson Welles

Yojimbo -( Kurosawa, cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa )

Sansho Dayu (Kenji Mizoguchi, cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa)

Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa)

At MoMa calendar
Kazuo Miyagawa: Japan’s
Greatest Cinematographer
Through April 29
The Museum of Modern Art

Kazuo Miyagawa (Japan Society)

Born in Kyoto on 25 February 1908, he was introduced at the age of 12 to the art of Sumi-e, a style of ink wash painting in which the dilution of the ink and the mastery of the brush allows the artist to obtain every possible shade of grey. Miyagawa would later state that “it was my training in ink wash painting that really taught me how to see.”

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Kenji Mizoguchi (on the chair), Miyagawa (behind) and actresses on the set of his film “Street of Shame (Akasen Chitai)

Ayako Wakao
with Michio Kogure..from Sisters of Gion.

Irezumi
(Directed by Yasuzo Masumura)
Miyagawa filmed Ayako Wakao in Ozu’s Floating Weed, Gion’s Sisters.

Floating Weeds

Ozu Yasujiro and Kazuo Miyagawa

Anonymous source

Another of Miyagawa’s masterful achievements was on Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad (1965), where he supervised 164 cameramen, who used 234 different lenses to capture the dramatic intensity of competition in extreme close-up.

Tokyo Olympiad – Kon Ichikawa

The Guardian obit

Milos Forman the director who brought the spirit of Anti-Soviet Rebellion to Hollywood dies at age 86.

He appeared as an actor in French film “Beloved” directed by Christophe Honore with Catherine Deneuve and her daughter.

All about Milos Forman (His fabulous homepage)

Wki

A delightful documentary with amazing background stories.

Vaclav Havel was his friend.

Milan Kundera was his teacher at the academy. He was a Francophile. He made Milos to read The Dangerous Liasions which he adapted to a film called, “Valmont’ with Colin Firth and Annette Benning.

Milos IMDB
Goya’s Ghost – Milos was thinking of Iraq war.

Named his twins – Andy and Jim.

Google Mozart
digital image by Fung Lin Hall
Antonio Salieri

1) Take this quiz..
by Mikhail Simkin

The audio clips below are either from Mozart or from Salieri.

After listening to each clip choose the composer. Hit the Submit button when done. The quiz will be graded and you will see the correct answers.

photo by Vera Vang

April 11 1869 –
birthday of Gustav Vigeland

Visited here when I stayed in Oslo for 3 months.

Did Edward Munch hate Vigeland?

The wild conversation here about this park, thanks to Mark Z. (scroll down to see him resembling the Noble man painted by Velasquez)

Guardian obit – Cecil Taylor was 89. (Excellent coverage)

Cecil Taylor: a visionary pianist who breathed fire and life into jazz -John Fordham.

NYtimes obit

Cecil Taylor (March 25, 1929-2018)

was an American pianist and poet.[1][2] Classically trained, Taylor was generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and intricate polyrhythms. His piano technique has been likened to percussion, for example described as “eighty-eight tuned drums” (referring to the number of keys on a standard piano).[3] He has also been described as “like Art Tatum with contemporary-classical leanings”

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through. – Cecil Taylor.

(Thx to Jeff O’Connell)

His music meant so much to me, the dancing on the keys, the huge chordings/speeds/oceanic, then pointillist, the intensity, the uncompromising musics…

Alan Sondheim

This Angry Age. (Directed by Rene Clement)

It is an adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ 1950 novel, The Sea Wall. The film stars Anthony Perkins and Silvana Mangano.

Full film This Angry Age

Margruete Duras was born on April 4, 1914.
Anthony Perkins was born on April 4, 1932.

Pain, Trauma and Finding Oneself

The Photo shows Marguerite Duras at 15 years. Sarraute, Duras, Truffaut, and Louise Bourgeois are four French geniuses whose childhoods are well documented. Exploring the links between childhood experiences and the later emergence of creative genius are some of the following:
Marguerite Duras In Sa Dec, Vietnam is the setting for Duras’s autobiographical novel Lovers.