Drawings from Thaw Collection at Morgan Libray

Chapeaux

Edouard  Vuillard (1868-1940)

Vincent van Gogh

She talks with her Cat

Goya

She talks with her Cat, from the Witches and Old Women, ca. 1819-23

Tiepolo

detail from Caricature of a Sleeping man

TAL R

Souvenir Shop, Detail, 2010

There has to be an entrance in a picture. There has to be information

in the middle area that starts your imagination. What's happening in

the place that you can't see? If I put the flashlight to show you what

happens in the tunnel it would be a major disaster .

Tal R

Elephant Behind Clown Through Keyhole, 2009

KAREL APPEL

if I was a bird 

they would say 

he flies alone

he flies through the night

they would say, 

I fly higher and higher

no longer a bird*

*solitary bird  Karel Appel

Encounter,1951

The Square Man, 1951

The Owlman 1 1960

THREE DUCKyS

CONSTANT

Untitled (Donald Duck), 1949

BANSKY

Rubber Ducky, 2006

ASGER JORN

The Disturbed Duckling, 1959

The title refferes to a fairytale by the author  Hans Christian Anderson, called "The Ugly Duckling"

Depiction of Duckling seems out of place, out of scale and in contrast with idyllic surroundings.

Jorn painted duckling on to canvas found on a flee market.

Henry Moore

Henry Moore  and  AGO

TORONTO

The Art Galery of Ontario is the home of largest public collection of Henry Moore's work.
 141 sculptures, 75 drawings, and 712 prints.
According to Michael Parke-Taylor, long time associate Curator of  Modern Art Galeries of AGO,
Moore's first appearence in Toronto was 1938, the first two sculptures  to be acquired in 1951, and 1955. In 1966  marked by the controversial events surrounded Moore's bronze statue The archer placed in front of City Hall.  The  conservative critics labeled the sculpture as radical example of  Modern Art.
In 1974, The Henry Moore Sculpture Center opened.

"To know one thing, you must know the opposite.”
― Henry Moore

"In my opinion, long and intense study of human figure is the necessary foundation for a sculptor."*

"Simplicity alone, just leaving things out, will not produce monumentality; it may only produce emptiness."*

"..And for me, I collect odd bits of driftwood-anything  I find that has a shape that interests me- and keep it around in that little studio so that  if any day I go in there, or evening, within five or ten minutes of being in that little room there will be something that I can pick up or look  at that would give
me the start for a new idea" *

What I found disappointing was, after seen all wonderfully displayed great sculptures, I run dowstairs to Museum shop hoping to buy the exhibition catalog, instead I 've been offered various Henry Moore publications which did not have anything common with the pieces in the place. Hope curators of the Center feels  the void and bring together well documented  record of their collection as well as smaller

size pamplets for the indivudual exhibitions. Out of large  collections of Moore publications, I found John Hedgescoe's  book as most informative, well organized, extensively surveyed,  and thoughtfully photographed.  

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* Quotes, are taken from the Book; Henry Moore, A Monumental Vision,  John Hedgecoe.

Double Poke In the Eye

DOUBLE POKE IN THE EYE
&

The Poetic Fallacy of Animality
(G.Bataille)

I think that the point where language starts to break down as a useful tool for communication is the same edge where poetry and art occur. (B. Nauman)

Froehlich Collection, Stuttgart
 

Dia:Beacon

.....
'There  was no landscape in a world where the eyes that opened did not apprehend what they looked at, where indeed, in our terms, the eyes did not see. And if, now, in my mind's confusion, stupidly contemplating that absence of vison, I begin to say: " There was no vision, there was nothing- nothing but empty intoxication limited by terror, suffering, and death, which gave it a kind of thickness..."I am only abusing a poetic capacity, substituting a vogue fulgaration for the nothing of ignorance. I know:the mind cannot dispense with a fulgaration of words that makes a fascinating halo for it: that is its richness, its glory, and sign of sovereignty. But this poetry it is only a way by which a man goes from a world full of meaning to the final dislocation of meanings, of all meaning, which soon proves to be unavoidable. There is only one difference between the absurdity of things envisaged without man's gaze and that of things among which the animal is present; it is that the former absurdity immediatly suggets to us the apparent reduction of the exact sciences, whereas the latter hands us over the sticky temptation of poetry, for, not being simply a thing, the animal is not closed and inscrutable to us. The animal opens before me a depth that attracts me and is familiar to me. In a sense, I  know this depth: its my own. It is also that which is fartest removed from me, that which deserves the name depth, which means precisely that which is unfathomable to me. But this too is poetry..."
Theory of Religion -Georges Bataille

GAUDI

CITY THAT DOES NOT SLEEP

In the sky there is nobody asleep. Nobody, nobody.
Nobody is asleep.
The creatures of the moon sniff and prowl about their cabins.
The living iguanas will come and bite the men who do not dream,
and the man who rushes out with his spirit broken will meet on the
street corner
the unbelievable alligator quiet beneath the tender protest of the
stars.*

*Federico Garcia Lorca

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STARS & DOVES
Finial Cast, Sculpture
 La Sagrada Familia
Barcelona
GAUDI

FRAGMENTS

REALITY/ BANALITY



DAY IN AND DAY OUT,
NO THOUGHTS
ARE FIZZLED

THE FRAGMENTS

DULL AND TIRED

NOTHING WILL DISTURB
THE BANALITY
MAYBE

 RANDOM NEWS  WILL ARRIVE:
A FAMILIAR FACE
 PASSED AWAY SOMEWHERE

 YOUR BAG FILLED WITH

 UNNECESSARY OBJECTS
LATEST ADDITION;  SOLEMN FACE

A CONCOCTION
INGRIDIENTS WITH
NO SUBSTANCE

A QUESTION COMES TO MIND
 WHEN
AND WHERE

 YOUR FACE
ATTACHED  TO A BAG
OTHER THEN YOURS.

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" DRINK UP , PUNK."

I THREW MY EMPTY BEER CAN ACROSS THE ROOM.

"TELL ME SOME MORE ABOUT YOUR MOTHER , JIMMY BOY. WHAT WHAT DID SHE SAID ABOUT THE MAN WHO DRUNK HER PISS IN HE BATHTUB?"

"SHE SAID,  ' THERE IS A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE.'"

"JIM."

"Uh"

"DRINK UP. BE A MAN!" *

*HAM ON RYE: CHARLES BUKOWSKI

NYC

"THE DENSE CROWD SAILED IN DARKNESS, IN LOUD CONFUSION, WITH THE SHUFFLE OF  A THOUSAND FEET,  IN THE CHATTER OF  A THOUSAND MOUTHS-

A DISORDERLY,  ENTAGLED MIGRATION PROCEEDING ALONG THE ARTERIES OF THE AUTUMNAL CITY."*

*The Street Of Crocodiles

by Bruno Schulz

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ACCIDENTAL REFLECTIONS

"YOU HAVE BEEN THE EMBODIMENT OF EVERY GRACEFUL

FANCY THAT MY MIND HAS EVER BECOME ACQUAINTED 

WITH"

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

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TRIBECA

UNLIKELY PAIR

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CHILD

LIMA, PERU

' I wonder through each dirty street

near where dirty Thames does flow

and on each human face I meet

Marks of weaknes, marks of woe'

W.Blake

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FREEDOM TOWER

LOWER MANHATTAN,  NEW YORK CITY

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Photographs has been taken during the short evening cruise on the Hudson River.
September 29, 2012

CATHEDRAL OF SAINT SEBASTIAN, RIO, BRASIL

ARCHITECT: EDGAR FONSECA

STUDENT OF OSCAR NIEMEYER

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CONSTRUCTION:1964 -1979

DIAMETER: 96M, HEIGHT 75M

LOCATION DOWNTOWN RIO DE JANEIRO

THE VILLA SAVOYE, POISSY , FRANCE

Last of Purist Houses 

1928-1937
"the icon of bygone modernity"

LIVING ROOM LOOKING TO GARDEN TERRACE

"...the outside always an inside....the hanging garden onto which the sliding plate-glass walls of living room and other rooms of the house  open freely: thus the sun is everywhere, in the very heart of the house"

Transitioning to the exterior , the ramp leads to  SOLARIUM, from which entire site can be seen"

EXTERIOR

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NOGUCHI II

AKARI SHINES LIKE THE LIGHT OF SUN...THEY SEEM TO OFFER MAGICAL UNFOLDING AWAY FROM THE SPRITUAL WORLD.

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It was on a trip to gifu, Japan  in 1951 that Noguchi created

his first Akari designs, inspired by the traditional lanterns

illuminating night fishing on the Nagara River. He called 

these works Akari, a Japanese term meaning light as a

illumination, but also impliying weightlessness.

NOGUCHI

"To fight gravity is a tour de force. The nature of the stone is weight. In a sense
I am led against my better judgement in attemting out of contradictions to draw
new emphasis. The deepest values are to be found in the nature of each medium.
The question is how to transform not destroy this"
ISAMU NOGUCHI

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DOWN n UP

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DOWN n UP

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