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Stanley Kubrick @ Design Museum
Interesting comments. I found it fascinating too as well as very crowded. Lots to take in but did show Kubrick was a real master of his craft.
I suppose I can’t complain considering it is the final day of the exhibition (though I get the impression that this particular display didn’t really have a ‘quiet’ period), but Stanley Kubrick is packed!
I pretty much bypass the entire first section, which is a huge shame but I literally cannot get near. The only aspect of this first introductory section that I am able to spend any time with are the rather wonderful posters designed for Kubrick’s films. What an art it is to convey the mood and suggest the plot of a film with such simplicity. Nearby, there is further insight into this fascinating process behind these posters, with an emphasis on Kubrick’s perfectionism. This is apparent in his annotations of Saul Bass’ poster designs for the Shining. ‘Unreadable’, is Kubrick’s most common criticism, but he also insists the use of the maze is misleading — clearly he…
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Wenn ich weinen und träumen will…
Trugbild=Illusion
Interesting how both Rilke and Thomas Mann were fascinated by that city.
Reginald Barratt: View on the Grand Canal (ca. 1907)
Immer Venedig
Venedig, warum denn immer
Venedig nur, wenn ich weinen
Und träumen will?
Du bist wie ein schönes Zimmer,
In das mir Abende scheinen,
Golden und still.
Ein Bild aus barocken Zeiten,
Aus welchem Gondeln stumm gleiten,
Als wären sie
Schon immer traurig gefahren
Und Sehnsucht, vergilbt an Jahren,
Endete nie.
Venedig, Musik von weit her,
Wo selbst der Tod ein Gondolier
In Maske ist,
Vorbei an Kirchen und Brücken,
Kanäle, geheime Lücken
Sind sie der List.
Verführen mit ihren Liedern,
Das helle Mondlicht erwidern
An Fenstern dort,
Und wohnt auch niemand dahinter
Und schläft das Trugbild im Winter,
Träumt es doch fort…
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My Copper etching- aquatint
Lovely aquatints with intriguing themes!
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#Poetry Derek Mahon (Irish poet)
Brilliant- really getting into Mahon. Love the way in which you have illustrated this poem too.He is clearly a real Francophile.
I thought it was an excellent exhibition too. I now want to see all of the films that I haven’t already seen.He oviously worked in meticulous detail
Stanley Kubrick was one of the greatest ever directors, so I was never going to miss an exhibition that celebrated his extraordinary vision and the intense attention to detail that helped him make such incredible films. And that was even without the five star reviews from The Guardian, The Times, Time Out, BBC website and The Evening Standard.
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(New comic!) My Love Life
Sweet and amusing too!
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Vallotton @ RA
Well I really liked the Vallotton for several reasons. Firstly because he seemed quite modern. He was also concerned with dramatic situations, like Munch. He seemed to me to enjoy aspects of the city as in his triptych. I thought his self portraits interesting and his analysis of familial relationships. He was interested in making novel prints. I liked his portrait of the famous Gertrude Stein. He seemed sensitive too to the outbreak of the First World War. Fascinating on many levels. Hadn’t time for the other exhibition.
I visited the Felix Vallotton exhibition, imagining it would far exceed my estimation of the Helene Schjerfbeck show, also on display here. In fact, I found the comparison incredibly rewarding (I revisited Schjerfbeck afterwards) and actually changed a few of my opinions about her and indeed the exhibition. On that note, YES I do think blog posts can and should sometimes say ‘look, I was wrong there.’ It’s something that so many fail to do nowadays, like we’re all oh so set in our opinions and prejudices that we never put on different lenses and see in a new light. Well, I do, and I’m not ashamed. I feel it’s enriching to return to exhibitions, especially with someone new, who can lend their own perspectives. I’m sick of singularity. Let’s change our minds, let’s fight, I’m so bloody bored of safeness and being told to like something because it’s worthy…
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Not that long ago I was visiting my cousin in Upper Austria and we were planning a short road trip to Passau, Germany. Since the drive is not longer than two hours, we were already planning ahead of oursleves, including other things that we can do on the way. And that is when it occurred to me – this one place in Austria that has stuck with me through childhood, but never actually considered seeing one day.
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Rising Late by Derek Mahon
Sun on the eyes, clear voices, open window,
birdsong; ponies clop by on the road below.
Whine of a chainsaw, the recurrent roar
of power tools from a building site next door
with crashing, rumbling, safety beep and buzz.
A seagull shadow flickers; harbour noise;
a honking coaster backs out from the quay.
Enter a fly, the vast breath of the sea.
Waking mid-morning to a springlike new year
and a new age of unbeauty, rage and fear
much like the last one, I wonder if
a time could ever come when human life,
relieved of ego and finance, might thrive
on the mere fact of existence. A naïve
hope, but naïve hopes are what open
the doors when January comes round again.
Such tiny houses, such enormous skies!
The vast sea-breath reminds us, even these days
as even more oil and junk slosh in the waves,
the future remains open…
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