Discussion of the Cy Twombly & Nicolas Poussin show (July 2011) between Sir Nicolas Serota & Nicolas Cullinan at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Rukq7Px6w

 "You spend your time ranking the names of the greatest.  Beware of that.  Be modest, and stop looking for a rule."                                                                                                                                          

 -Emile Nolde

"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. "


"Art is not a pastime but a priesthood."


"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods.  We have ours, they have theirs.  That's whats known as infinity."

-Jean Cocteau

A reporter asked Mr. (Gerhard) Richter how it felt to be “celebrated at the moment like no other artist has ever experienced,” as a “titan, an Olympian.” Mr. Richter smiled slyly and replied, “Being ignored would certainly be a lot worse.”

The last of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" (1895) goes on sale next week, est. price $80 000 000 (US).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/feb/21/edvard-munch-the-scream-auction#

Visit to Galerie La Centrale (4286 boul. St. Laurent):

Fantastic contemporary Inuit drawings by Ningeokuluk TeeVee & Shuvinai Ashtoona.  Excellent stuff.

Musee des beaux arts de Quebec:

Guido Molinari, "Red angle", 1955, oil on canvas.

Edmund Alleyn, "The shadow of a doubt", 1959, oil on canvas.

Patterson Ewen,  "Feathered Skull", 1958, oil on canvas.

Alfred Pellan, "Venus & the Bull", 1938, oil on canvas.

Jean-Paul Riopelle, "Sun Spray", 1954, oil on canvas.

Marc Aurele de Foy Suzor-Coté., "Temps orageuax, passage a Arthabaska", 1923,  oil on wood panel.

Marc Aurele de Foy Suzor-Coté, "Coucher de soleil en automne", 1911, oil on wood panel.

Visit to Bigué Art Contemporain with HK:

Edmund Alleyn, Paintings : 1953 - 1964

Superb!  Mainly work from private collections, very seldom seen.

                                                                                      "Painters table", 1954, oil on canvas,

                                             
                                                                                          "September", 1962, oil on canvas

                                                 
                                                                                       "Garden soul", 1963, oil on canvas.

                                                                                              "Papoose", 1962, oil on canvas.

Sketch for 12 great Canadians:

1.  Harold Klunder
2.  Agnes Martin
3.  Tom Thompson
4.  Emily Carr
5.  Attila Richard Lukas
6. Oscar Cahen
7.  Norville Morriseau
8.  Marc-André de Foy Suzor Coté
9.  Kenojuak Ashevak
10.  Jean Paul Riopelle
11.  Patterson Ewen
12.  Phillip Guston

"Do something, do something else.  Do something else to that."
-Jasper Johns

-an artists' responsibility is to craft an object that will hold the viewers' attention & engage his critical, emotional, psychological & spiritual faculities, time after time after time.
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"Concentration is one of the most important things in painting."
-Lucien Freud

(Vibrations give rise to form)

-searching for nutrition for the paintings, the role of the artist is to make peoples' lives a little bit more complicated.

-The painting IS the subject.

(painting in solitude & isolation, in two small rooms down near the cold river)

OK WALL POWER

-Life cannot be negotiated in isolation

"Points of civilization & illumination within the surrounding cultural darkness"

"A picture lives by companionship, expanding & quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer.  It is, therefore, a risky & unfeeling act to send it out into the world."

-Mark Rothko


(colours as performers)

Antoni Tapies, dead @ 88.

(@ Saint Josephs Oratory, Mtl)

Spent time with the wooden 12 Apostles hanging on the walls of the sides of the great, main Modernist chapel, elongated & stern, a Nordic moral council glaring down from the walls.  Saint Thomas' eyes are particularly penetrating & fierce.