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A Dangerous Method (2011)
Sabina Spielrein@s life was very interessting indeed and would reward further study. See also https://stottilien.com/2014/04/06/female-archetype-of-sabina-spielrein-queen-or-wise-women/
D: David Cronenberg / 99m
Cast: Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel, Sarah Gadon
A movie examining the intellectual and professional battle between Carl Jung (Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Mortensen) may not be the most obvious choice for David Cronenberg to direct, but there’s long been a psycho-sexual element to his movies that fits in quite easily with Jung and Freud’s combative attitudes about notions of sexual repression (though even they may have balked at some of the ideas Cronenberg came up with during his Seventies output). What emerges though is a movie that concentrates as much on the machinations of the mind as it does on the pleasures of the flesh.
The movie opens in 1902, with the arrival of Sabina Spielrein (Knightley) at the Burghölzli, a psychiatric hospital in Zurich. Sabina displays extreme manic behaviour and contorts her body into uncomfortable positions as an expression of…
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Paris Favourites: Passages
Two weeks ago we spent a rainy weekend exploring some of the passages in the Grands Boulevards area of the city. I find that Grands Boulevards can be a bit overwhelming with loads of touristy shops and restaurants, but once you enter into the passages the crowds fall away and you’re in a different world. I think that they’re a great bit of ‘hidden Paris’ and I love the antique storefronts and intricate designs.
Il y a deux semaines, nous avons passé un week-end pluvieux par explorer cdes passages dans la quartier de Grand Boulevards. Je trouve que Grands Boulevards est parfois un peu “trop” avec toutes ses magasins et restaurants touristiques, mais quandvous entrez dans les passages, c’est comme vous êtes dans un monde différent. Je pense qu’ils sont un peu insolite et j’adore les magasins anciens et les designs complexes.
Galerie Vivienne (my favourite).
Galerie Vivienne (mon…
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VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY
Just finished reading “The Vanishing Futurist” and thought these paintings intriguing!
Paul Solovyev
Russian painter and art theoretician Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1878–1935) is probably most famous for his enigmatic “Black Square” of 1913, now displayed at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. It was just that – a black square. What was the big deal? Malevich believed that art was for spiritual awakening, and this fact has led to a range of interpretations of his work.
Taking Malevich’s style as a starting point, Russian artist Paul Solovyev has come up with his “Pope Art” series that uses colour and geometry to reveal greater truths. Paul asks: “What is Malevich’s “Black Square” — the Absolute or the Void, God or the opposite, the image or the absence of image, is it impossibly bright light or darkness, the living Word or the black square of censorship, the icon or the anti-icon?” Carefully composed, each painting of Paul’s raises similar questions.
“I get my inspiration literally everywhere,” the artist…
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The Lost Mistress BY ROBERT BROWNING
All’s over, then: does truth sound bitter
As one at first believes?
Hark, ’tis the sparrows’ good-night twitter
About your cottage eaves!
And the leaf-buds on the vine are woolly,
I noticed that, today;
One day more bursts them open fully
– You know the red turns grey.
Tomorrow we meet the same then, dearest?
May I take your hand in mine?
Mere friends are we, – well, friends the merest
Keep much that I resign:
For each glance of the eye so bright and black,
Though I keep with heart’s endeavor, –
Your voice, when you wish the snowdrops back,
Though it stay in my soul for ever! –
Yet I will but say what mere friends say,
Or only a thought stronger;
I will hold your hand but as long as all may,
Or so very little longer!
I found this poem which in a collection from a local charity shop in a battered old hardback for just £6. I rather like Browning for his lyrical accessibility. I know that he was greatly loved by the blind Cornish poet, Jack Clemo, for his love of Italy. I remember from school days being very moved by “How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix”. Indeed it is now said that it his dramatic monologues which are his greatest contribution. Oscar Wilde writes;”Yes, Browning was great. And as what will he be remembered? As a poet? Ah, not as a poet! He will be remembered as a writer of fiction, as the most supreme writer of fiction, it may be, that we have ever had. His sense of dramatic situation was unrivalled, and, if he could not answer his own problems, he could at least put problems forth, and what more should an artist do? Considered from the point of view of a creator of character he ranks next to him who made Hamlet.”
Returning to the poem above there are certain lines that are both moving and puzzling. “The leaf buds on the vine are wooly” to me suggests that they are both ready to open but some how covered with a kind of moss which is suggestive of some plant that is about to flower and at the same time about to decline. Thus suggestive of the situation the poet finds himself in relation to his would-be mistress. The vine is, of course biblical (John 15.1 and also John 15.4) and brings in another note about time and decay. The colour red turning to gray might I suppose refer to the colour of the grape and the bloom or mould upon it-but clearly signifies passion, like Paradise lost. The seasonal confusions within the poem I find suggestive of the inner turmoil related to the loss of the beloved.
A less sympathetic reading of this poem may be found at https://yshaincebu.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/the-lost-mistress-robert-browning-1812-1889/
and a brief biography by Samuel Smiles is at
From Pippa passes
OTTIMA (to her paramour).
Buried in woods we lay, you recollect;
Swift ran the searching tempest overhead;
And ever and anon some bright white shaft
Burnt through the pine-tree roof,—here burnt and there,
As if God’s messenger through the close wood screen
Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture,
Feeling for guilty thee and me.
I find that reading verses in German somehow memorable:-
Johannes 15:5 ^
Ich bin der Weinstock, ihr seid die Reben. Wer in mir bleibt und ich in ihm, der bringt viele Frucht, denn ohne mich könnt ihr nichts tun.
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Back to work
Nice sketches!!
Today I am back to work. I did have an 80 minute massage before work today which left me very relaxed and mellow as I went into work. He also worked out the hamstring tie-in on my right side that was tweaked from the long flights. It was the perfect ending to my vacation.
The last couple of days were a nice slow return to life after vacation. We still had company for a couple of days. Although I didn’t sleep much on the plane and fell right to sleep when we got home I was still awake super early. We made it a full day, visiting with Vivian, going out to breakfast and then went out to get groceries and wash that were covered in pitch from being parked under the tree for two weeks.
Friday I was still waking up around 4:00 am. We went to Seal beach on Friday and had breakfast before walking on along the beach and…
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Novalis ist the subject of a great novel called- “The Blue Flower” by Penelope Fitzgerald. I think it has been translated into German.
“Wer unglücklich in der jetzigen Welt ist,
wer nicht findet, was er sucht –
der gehe in die Bücher- und Künstlerwelt –
in die Natur – diese ewige Antike
und Moderne zugleich …”
Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg), Fragmente und Studien IX 890
Trauminsel – 70 x 100 cm – Tusche auf Büttenpapier (c) Zeichnung von Susanne Haun
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Zitiert nach: Heilmann, Christoph (Hrsg.), „In uns selbst liegt Italien“, Die Kunst der Deutsch-Römer, München 1987, S.11.
Looks very interesting and to perhaps compare with Maggie Matthews new show at the Cornwall Contemporary in Penzance.
Tregony Gallery presents ‘Sea of Colour’ a mixed exhibition by the gallery artists starting 11th July and running through summer.
The Cornish summertime is particularly special with its vibrancy of colours and beautiful light. This abundance is reflected in the selection of work on display in the gallery adding newly represented artists who include myself, Jessica Allen, Sarah Spackman and ceramist Leonie Stanton and sculptor David Burrows.
My works that have been chosen by the gallery will include recent acrylic ink paintings inspired by local flora and fauna. Also on display will be some works in oil paint and mixed media which i made when i first came to Cornwall, influenced by the landscapes and seascapes that surround me in Penryn.
You are warmly invited to the Private View on Sunday 16 July 2017 2 pm – 5 pm
at Tregony Gallery, 58 Fore Street, Tregony, Cornwall TR2 5RW. I look…
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