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I like hybrids, mixed media, I like paintings you can listen to, music for the deaf and drawings for the blind. I like playing with medium specificity.

I recently discovered High Note (1960), a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated short directed by Chuck Jones.

In this charming film, various musical notes set up the sheet music to get ready for a performance of The Blue Danube Waltz. However, a sole note is missing. It turns out the note (a red-faced "High Note") is drunk upon staggering out of the sheet music to "Little Brown Jug", and the irritated conductor chases after him to put him back in his place so the waltz can continue as planned. Eventually, the rogue note is put back into place, but when the performance starts again, it has disappeared again, along with the rest of the sheet music. The composer then discovers that all the notes have gone into the "Little Brown Jug" to get drunk.

This film entered my head as visual music, although it is less so than the music visualization of Fantasia (1940), of which Oskar Fischinger's interpretation of J. S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor is online here.

See also: http://blog.jahsonic.com/listen-to-this-drawing/



Résidence Isabelle (1928) is an art deco building of 9 stories located at the Lange Leemstraat 144A-C, a design by architect Paul Dries uit 1928).

Léonard De Cuyper

... Lange Leemstraat in Klein-Antwerpen. (Het huis is in 1928 afgebroken en vervangen door nieuwbouw. Tegenwoordig staat hier Résidence Isabelle.) In 1854 ..


"I suspect that, among the stories that Kafka or his Dog had in mind, were those of Johann Peter Hebel (1760-1826). At all events, Kafka called Hebel’s ‘Unexpected Reunion’ the ‘most wonderful story in the world’, and the judgment does not strike one as absurd." [1]

Niagara (1971) is the self-titled album by Niagara.

The track "Sangandongo"[2] by Niagara shows musical similarities with "Le Serpent" by Guem.

The cover, I'd never seen before.

Via the Caribou 1000.


A woman's head is shaved as punishment for 'collaboration horizontale'. Montélimar area, August 1944.

I like the term collaboration horizontale, is it not proof of the unstoppability of the way of the flesh? see blood is thicker than water.

When members of two peoples at war (Romeo and Julia for example) form couples and have children, is that not the best way to forge peace?



Penguin Little Black Classics



Salvador Dalí Metamorphosis of Narcissus 1937 ... When Dali met Sigmund Freud in London in 1938, Dalí took this picture with him as an example of his work.


What makes the difference in life is not what is said, but how it is said. As for the 'what,' the same thing has already been said perhaps many times before—and so the old saying is true: there is nothing new under the sun ...--Kierkegaard


On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972 (1989) [3] is a documentary directed and produced by Branka Bogdanov.


Are passions, then, the pagans of the soul?

Are passions, then, the pagans of the soul? Reason alone baptiz'd? is a dictum by Edward Young, from his Night-Thoughts.



Rolling Stones in drag is the informal title of a photo by Jerry Schatzberg as depicted on the cover of "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows?". From left to right: Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards.



RIP Albert Maysles (1926 – 2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVmNrROHn8k

An excerpt from Grey Gardens, the story of an eccentric mother and daugher

Albert Maysles was an American documentary filmmaker best-known for the documentaries Gimme Shelter (1970) Grey Gardens (1975).

He is best known for the work he did with his brother in the genre of direct cinema (cinéma vérité).

You can watch Gimme Shelter[4] and Grey Gardens[5] in their totalities on YouTube. And Salesman[6] too (practically).


"C’est dans le sein de la mère que se fabriquent les organes qui doivent nous rendre susceptibles de telle ou telle fantasie; les premiers objets présentés, les prémiers discours entendus, achèvent de déterminer le ressort; les goûts se forment et rien au monde ne peut plus les détruire." --Justine, De Sade


Das Geschlechtsleben in der Völkerpsychologie (1908) by Otto Stoll https://archive.org/details/dasgeschlechtsl00stolgoog


I'm reading the second volume of Het sadistische universum (above).

The bits on pubic hair in "Klaas boven Klaas" in W. F. Hermans are taken from The Plague of Lust[7] by Julius Rosenbaum.

From that same essay comes the comic thought that the division of labour has led to the prosperity of mankind and that this is even true in the field of biology: "Het merendeel van de mensheid heeft het eten van klei aan graangewassen gedelegeerd." ("The majority of humanity has delegated the eating of clay to cereal crops")

The cover design of the man who hacks a leg off an another man is by Karel Beunis, after an idea by Hermans.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwIt9v2okVc

As I've told you before, I have been working on a musical top 1000 since 2007. It's almost finished, another 50 or so tracks to go. Let's call it my musical fingerprint.

It has come to my attention that a certain Dan Snaith, who works under the name Caribou, has been doing the same thing.

He recently published his top 1000.

There is about two to three percent overlap with my list.

Not on my list is "All About Money" (above), a queer but wonderful composition by an eighties studio project called 'Spontaneous Overthrow'.

The "Money" track is on Personal Space (Electronic Soul 1974 - 1984).

Keywords are cosmic, druggy, weird.


Corporea pulchritudo in pelle solummodo constat


Drawing the first contours of the 'American fantastique'.

"The Eye of the Beholder" (1960) is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. Its theme is aesthetic relativism.

It is a prime example of the American fantastique, the fantastique being a sensibility which is a sibling of horror, fantasy and SF, and child ofspeculative fiction.

You can watch the full episode here[8].

I previously mentioned this episode here[9].


The Antwerp City Hall is celebrating its 450th anniversary.

It's one of my favourite buidings, maybe because of its tackiness. Its architect was Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, whose ornamental prints[10][11] are really what you want to see.

Photo: J. W. Geerinck


"Jalouse" Mademoiselle K


La peinture des Lumières : De Watteau à Goya (2014) Tzvetan Todorov



Villa Dirickz in Brussels by Marcel Leborgne is a large mansion of 10,700 square-feet.

Belgian modernism


The Sins of Madama Bovary I peccati di Madame Bovary


Dainty: Julia Pastrana dancing.


This photo[12] of a war memorial at Tjentište, Bosnia and Herzegovina combines brutalist architecture with nature. It is by Belgian photographer Jan Kempenaers, from a series of war memorials titled Spomenik which is Bosnian for monument.

To give you an idea of the monument, check this.



Ribbon development


« Vous avez un beau chapeau Madame »


This flew under my radar because he was not listed on the Deaths in 2014 Wikipedia page. But last year in May, Swiss artist H. R. Giger died.

He is best-known for his body horror.

Above is his Hommage a Böcklin[13] (1977), an homage to Isle of the Dead.


RIP Lasse Braun (1936 - 2015).

He was one of the last living protagonists of the 'porno chic' era. The only two survivors now are Radley Metzger (1929) and Tinto Brass (1933).

Here are two clips from Youtube (of all places)

An animated short film, a film by French cartoonist Siné produced by Braun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LKS2O7W5v8

"Ahahahahah!" (1975) [14]

And this rarity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwUHjlbiYew

Body Love, a film by Braun and Catherine Ringer, with music by Klaus Schulze.

I previously paid attention the man here[15].


Simon Vouet's phallic ?[16], is in fact an altered version of Satyrs admiring the anamorphosis of an Elephant [17]


Wiertz: Guillotined Head (1855). Musée Antoine Wiertz, Brussels.



Montaigne could embrace Christian faith on Pyrrhonian grounds. The skeptical prescription was to live life on the basis of the customs in the place one finds one's self. Since the prevailing customary religion in France was Catholicism, one should accept the Catholic doctrines.[18]



Le sot projet qu'il a de se peindre!, PASC. , Pens. VI, 33

Blaise Pascal on Michel de Montaigne's Essais

The idiotic project he's undertaken to describe himself!



Portrait (A. Kachold) (1987) by Thomas Ruff


Balzac (Edgar Saltus) (1884) is a book on Balzac by American writer Edgar Saltus.


I found this painting while researching the 1830s. One of the Small Towers on Frederiksborg Castle[19] (c. 1834-35) is a painting by Christen Købke. Købke is one of the best known artists belonging to the Golden Age of Danish Painting. He strikes me as a painter of silence.


"Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali", Narrated by Orson Welles, 1970, Director: Jean-Christophe Averty


One grotesque shunga by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, from the series Night Procession of the Hundred Demons[20][21]


Detail of the He-gassen[22] scroll


Vie de Boheme, a patch of romantic Paris


Atlantic Wall bunker at Zuydcoote is a photo by J. W. Geerinck taken on 7/2/2015.

When I saw the mirrors live, I did not like them. I like them better on photo.



Unidentified cover illustration[23] Xavier Forneret's of Le Diamant de l’herbe.


A La Mie[24] is a painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec based on a photo[25] by Maurice Guibert. I prefer the photo. An obviously very drunk man looks at a woman. She looks away.



Ladies in Blue Late Minoan fresco, Knossos, Crete


"The Cross" by Prince (artist)


The most offensive plate[26][27] from De Lucernis antiquorum reconditis by Fortunio Liceti. Tip of the hat to BibliOdyssey.

See also


Bizarre, for Fireside and Wayside (1852-55) is a magazine founded by Joseph M. Church in Philadelphia


The Double is World Cinema Classic #218

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG8qATRtNuU

The Double is a 2013 dark comedy written and directed by relative newcomer Richard Ayoade, starring Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) and Mia Wasikowska. The film is based on the novella The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is about a man driven to mental breakdown when he is usurped by a doppelgänger.

"Ayoade has cited Orson Welles’ Kafka adaptation “The Trial” as a key influence, with its similarly labyrinthine sense of entrapment, along with “Alphaville,” “Eraserhead” and the dry Nordic comedies of Roy Andersson and Aki Kaurismaki; the latter’s imprint is particularly apparent in “The Double’s” regular eruptions of deadpan humor and its rich, almost Sirkian color palette. And so long as there are cinematic references to be footnoted, it’s hard not to flash back to “Rear Window” when Simon uses a telescope to spy on Hannah in her apartment — at first with longing, then with frustration as he bears helpless witness to her trysts with James." --Justin Chang [28]

Head of a Woman (Delacroix) shows the fascination of the Romantics with madness, see madness in art.


Orphan Girl at the Cemetery


Yard with Lunatics by Goya.

One of a series of 11 paintings which give Goya right to the claim of being the first Romantic artist.


Bouginier's nose[29], a caricature by Antoine Laurent Dantan.

Musique animée (Grandville)[30], from that same Les Mœurs et la caricature en France (1888). These were first published in Le Magasin pittoresque of August 1840.

I found a second version[31] of the typographical pear in John Grand-Carteret 's excellent Les Mœurs et la caricature en France (1888), now finally online at Archive.org.


Willy Schindler


Le Poitevin (1806-1870) was a French painter and lithographer. As a painter, he specialized in marine art , as a lithographer he is best-known today for Devilries. He was a contributor to The Journal of Painters and Charles Philpon's La Caricature. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, a pupil of Louis Hersent and Xavier Leprince. Very popular in his time, he exhibited at the Salon from 1831 until his death in 1870 .


"Le Magot de la Chine" is the title of a drawing by Honoré Daumier. It depicts Louis-Philippe as a corpulent magot. The print was published on August 28, 1834, in La Caricature.

See also: Caricatures of Louis-Philippe



The Erotic Margin: Sexuality and Spatiality in Alteritist Discourse (1999) by İrvin Cemil Schick



Intouchables


scheurlijn breuklijn snijvlak

"Als je de managementliteratuur mag geloven is het op kantoor één grote San Andreas-breuklijn waar raakvlakken, draagvlakken, snijvlakken, breukvlakken en zitvlakken elk moment over elkaar heen kunnen schuiven." [32]

grensgebied


Kathmandu in search of opium


Gites Anne de la Source: 221 Route de la Motte du Bourg Tardinghen 62179 France


Erotic Utopia: The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin de Siecle.


Natures Mortes; Portrait de Cézanne, Portrait de Renoir, Portrait de Rembrandt[33] (1920) by Francis Picabia, published in Cannibale, Paris, n. 1, April 25, 1920. It is a toy monkey and oil on cardboard. Its dimensions and whereabouts unknown.


I'm a huge fan of the Incoherents, founders of modern art (the dada variant). I'm currently researching Toulouse-Lautrec and I was quite content that Lautrec participated in the antics of these proto-dadaists.

For this, he used the pseudonym Tolav-Segroeg. Above is the lemma for Lautrec (as Tolav-Segroeg) in the catalog of the 1886 Incocerents exhibition.

Both of these paintings are lost.

The image is from [34]



In a Private Room at the Rat Mort[35] (1899-1900) is a painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It is in the collection of the Courtauld Institute of Art.


In 1896 Gérôme painted Truth Rising from her Well



"Un Auteur qui désire garder l'anonyme"[36] (the author who wishes to remain anonymous) is the title of a portrait of Octave Uzanne.


On March 19, 1892 Toulouse-Lautrec, dressed in Jane Avril’s clothes to attend the ‘Women’s ball’ (bal des femmes) held by the Courrier français at the Elysée-Montmartre.


La Blanchisseuse (Toulouse-Lautrec)


Yves Petry gebruikt woorden als "dubbelhartig" en "meerzinnig."


Happily for us the admiration inspired by a great artist lingers, while its cause may dim. It may possibly be because the artist justifies our taste rather than causes it. It is for the harshness of his realism that Toulouse-Lautrec was glorified by his contemporaries, who were also those of "Fille Elisa." At that time Huysmans and Zola were writing on art, and informed public opinion put Toulouse-Lautrec on a par with Raffaelli— another pitiless champion of realism. But time has vanquished realism; has dimmed Raffaelli while Toulouse-Lautrec has come through unscathed. Doubtless because he had more than realism to offer posterity. He had an amazing power of seeing and portraying qualities beyond the real in free combinations of color and arabesques, and that power makes him live today.[37]



Toulouse-Lautrec in his workshop with a nude model [38] is the informal title to a photo of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec with a nude model taken by Maurice Guibert.

As of early 2015, the photo was known on Wikipedia as Jeune homme à la fenêtre.

The painting in the center is Salon at the Rue des Moulins (1894).


Voluptuous Mary, Venus of Montmartre[39] (1885) is a painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It is in the collection of the Von der Heydt-Museum.

One may wonder what the face is doing peeping through the hole at the right. And what is that strange shape to the left?

See also: Eros and Modernism, cult of ugliness, eros in the 19th century


"The great Scandinavian philosopher, Sören Kierkegaard, suffered severely, according to Rasmussen, from excessive masturbation. " --H. Ellis

“Omdat verveling toeneemt en omdat verveling de wortel van het kwaad is, kan het geen wonder zijn dat de wereld achteruitgaat en het kwaad toeneemt. Dit kwaad was al in het begin van de wereld aanwezig. De goden verveelden zich, en dus schiepen ze de mens…”


Ah! Les belles bacchantes


Nsala of Wala in Congo looks at the severed hand and foot of his five-year old daughter (1904) is the informal title to an anonymous photo.


The Laughing Man



Yesterday, I got into a discussion with a friend regarding the painting A Belgian Politician[40] (top) by Belgian painter Luc Tuymans, who was recently convicted for plagiarizing the photo (bottom). His offense was not of course plagiarism but appropriation. Luc Tuymans has appealed but in my opinion he has no case whatsoever. Copyright is sovereign and all he had to do was ask the photographer (or whoever holds the right) for permission.


RIP John Hopkins (1937 – 2015), British political activist, co-founder of the International Times and one of the best-known figures of the 1960s UK underground.

Illustration: Culture, Space, Love and the Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds from NO. 49, JAN. 31 - FEB. 13,1969. [41]

How come there is no underground press today, was that not the utopian message of the early internet days? That everyone could be a publisher?

Is Wikileaks are new underground press?

Who will lead the new Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds?


RIP Will McBride (1931 - 2015), American photographer perhaps best-known for his book Show Me! (1974).

Photo: The Too-Full House, Munich, 1968

Source: [42]


Consumed (2014) is the debut novel of David Cronenberg.



--Delacroix "Questions sur le beau" (1854)


Sociologie van de zotheid : de humor als sociaal verschijnsel by Anton Zijderveld mentions the Ars Punica by Thomas Sheridan (divine) (see Swift).


Böcklin of my previous post is a symbolist. I doubt that he saw himself as one. This rarely happens: art movements with which the artists themselves identify did not exist before the advent in modern art, which saw the rise of self-defined art genres, the so-called art manifestos.

Another Symbolist is French artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Here is a painting by him: Hope (1872) [above].

Just as in the case of Goya's Maja, there is a nude and a clothed version of this painting.

Note: While I was researching the possibility of a Symbolist manifesto for painting (there is one of Symbolist literature) I stumbled upon the possibility that a large canvas by Gauguin, Vision After the Sermon, is a pictorial manifesto of symbolist painting.


I'm tentatively reviving a project which started its life as The Perverted Century but the title of which has evolved to A Secret History of the 19th Century. The new title will allow me to include not only erotica, but also, horror, avant-garde, psychiatry, drugs, humor, fantastique and philosophy.

The book will include The Isle of the Dead by Boecklin (above).

Boecklin's unique contribution to the history of art, is his reappreciation of humor.


"All Goya breathes around me" "Tout Goya palpitait autour de moi" said Eugène Delacroix when he set foot in Spain.


Force Majeure (film)


Een begrip kan univook (eenzinnig), analoog (meerzinnig) of equivook (dubbelzinnig) zijn. [43]

Sirens of Arnold Böcklin

Biography


The Mirror of Simple Souls (c. 1295) is a French text for which the author, Marguerite Porete, was burnt at


The Medieval Underworld (1979) is a book by Andrew McCall


A Belgian Politician is a painting by Luc Tuymans


Peter Pontiac


Adjectives, lines and marks', the winner of this year's £8,000 Jerwood Drawing Prize.

Its creator, Alison Carlier, describes the piece as "an open-ended audio drawing" that offers "a spoken description of an unknown object".



"Das Nichts nichtet"


I hold in my hands copies of Eros and Magic in the Renaissance, The Pursuit of the Millennium and European Sexualities, 1400-1800.


Karakterkoppen: Over haviksneuzen en hamsterwangen (14.03.15 - 21.09.15) is an exhibition at the Guislain Museum.


"A Cowardly Cartoonist"[44] by Robert Crumb, which comments on 7/1.

"It's a drawing labeled "The Hairy Ass of Mohamid!" held up by Crumb himself who is saying "Actually it's the ass of my friend Mohamid Bakhsh, a movie producer who lives in Los Angeles, California," which is apparently a reference to the animator Ralph Bakshi with whom Crumb has a longstanding feud over Fritz the Cat."[45]

"Spill the Wine" resembles "Speak Low"


"Cabanne: Where does your antiretinal attitude come from?
Duchamp: From too great an importance given to the retinal. Since Courbet , it’s been believed that painting is addressed to the retina. That was everyone’s error. The retinal shudder! Before, painting had other functions: it could be religious, philosophical, moral."

[46]


"Fania Fenelon describes her experience as a member of a women's orchestra in Birkenau from January 1944 to liberation in her book 'Playing for Time.' Fenelon states in her book that even though she had clean clothes, daily showers, and a reasonable food supply she had to play light-hearted, cheerful music as well as marching music for hours on end while her eyes witnessed the marching of thousands of people to the gas chambers and crematoria.""[47]

"There can be little doubt that Greene was aroused by the sense of sacrilege. It is impossible to resist the suspicion that, for him, faith served partly as an aphrodisiac."[48]



Both John Gray in Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals and Ciaran Regan in Intoxicating Minds: How Drugs Work argue that the artwork of the Pergouset cave is made under the influence of psychedelic drugs.


Terre érotique (1955) is an oil on panel painting by André Masson. It was ordered by Masson's stepbrother, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, to mask Gustave Courbet's provocative painting L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World), of which Lacan was the last private owner. It is somewhat of an erotic landscape. Masson made other 'terres érotiques' which were more explicit.



"The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it." --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


Even relatively conservative critics now sensed that the ground had begun to shift. Writing in Revue des deux mondes in 1882, Henry Houssaye was plainly discouraged by the diminished influence of the Academic style and the increasing popularity of modern, urban subjects. “We deplore,” he asserted, “the lack of interest in serious painting as it once was understood. Not only [do] we think that a bit of Greek drapery has more grace and nobility than overalls and overcoats, but we particularly regret the absence of scenes of mythology and ancient history because they are the only subjects suitable for the nude.” At the same time, though, even Houssaye had to admit that his view was far from universal. “Doubtless,” he added, “everyone does not judge this way. . . . In not admiring the Impressionists we may then be as blind as [the French art critic] Kéretry who wrote that [Théodore Géricault’s] Medusa dishonored the Salon. Kéretry was mistaken but he was honest, just as we ourselves are.” --A History of Art Criticism

"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and ... give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose bothL"


athambia ataraxia apatheia adiaphora


Pope Francis launched a blistering attack on the Vatican bureaucracy Monday [December 22, 2014], outlining a "catalog of illnesses" plaguing the church's central administration, including "spiritual Alzheimer's" and gossipy cliques.[49]

"What history narrates is in fact only the long, heavy, and confused dream of humanity" is a dictum by Schopenhauer, recorded in The World as Will and Representation, Supplements to the Third Book[50]


O.E. Bieber, Competition Project for the Construction of the Cologne Skyscraper, Cologne, Germany, 1925 [51]

Via Spheres


gij zijt een kleine ziel die een kadaver meezeult


At the end of this searching examination, which must have taxed the reader, I should now by way of diversion be permitted to make a facetious and indeed frivolous comparison. In that self-mystification I should liken Kant to a man at a ball, who all evening long has been carrying on a love affair with a masked beauty in the vain hope of making a conquest, when at last she throws off her mask and reveals herself as his wife. --On the Basis of Morality, Schopenhauer

The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud

Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience 545179 [S4-205 b] Magazijn


"the cult of friendship" [...] "permitted men to declare their love for other men — or women for other women — with impunity." --Peter Gay


Josiah Woodward Leeds (1841-1908) was the Anthony Comstock of Philadelphia.


Victor Servranckx in 1916, met René Magritte, with whom he wrote "Pure Art: A Defence of the Aesthetic" in 1922.


Le Premier Disque (1912-13) by Robert Delaunay, private collection.


Kolobrzeg, Poland, July 26, 1992 is a photo by Rineke Dijkstra.


"Infantile paralysis, child walking on hands and feet" is a photo series by Eadweard Muybridge. It is plate 539 of Animal Locomotion. It is the basis of Paralytic Child Walking on all Fours (from Muybridge) (1961), a painting by Francis Bacon.


Jesus the Magician


I went to the Mark Rothko expo at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag where I saw lots of Mondrians and De Stijl stuff. But also: Francis Bacon's Paralytic Child Walking on all Fours (from Muybridge) (1961).

I visited Hemels Gewelf and saw the film Venus in Fur by Polanski.

At Scheveningen, I saw Tom Otterness: Fairy Tale Sculptures by the Sea.

At the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag I also saw the Nude, a new exhibition in the Vincent Award Room. I saw Michael Kirkham, The Story of the Black Glove, and Mr. and Mrs. Herrmaphrodite (2005), a lovely drawing by Mike Kelley.

I also saw work by Lisa Yuskavage (Dutch Girl), Martin Eder and George Condo (Blue Female Composition, 2006).


A great many authors have entered the public domain in 2015. Most notably, the work of Edvard Munch, Paul Poiret, Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti, Paul Otlet, Piet Mondrian, W. Heath Robinson, Wassily Kandinsky, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Glenn Miller is now free to use in all European countries.

Above is the painting Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow[52] by Mondrian.

By the way, I just visited the Mark Rothko retrospective exposition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and I was very much amused that one critic once called the work of Rothko "blurry Mondrians."


David Morgan is a scholar at the University of Newcastle. He has written extensively on the origin of the concept of abstract art.


Absolute Music: The History of an Idea is a book by Mark Evan Bonds.


Whistler, Turner, Constable are proto-abstraction, with Malevich and De Stijl the movement comes to fruition.



Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) published a book entitled On The Spirtual In Art[53] (1911), which became the foundation text of abstract painting.


In a Different Voice


Kurt Weill Youkali Teresa Stratas


Barbara, Sharif Dean, Catherine Lara, And I Love Her.


Les Étoiles et les Curiosités du Ciel (1882)[54] is a book by Camille Flammarion.


The New Babylon, They Live, Fight Club, Cosmopolis are anti-capitalist films.


This still from John Carpenter's film They Live comes your way via Slavoj Žižek's The Pervert's Guide to Ideology.

The film follows a nameless drifter referred to as "Nada", who discovers the ruling class are in fact aliens concealing their appearance and manipulating people to spend money, breed and accept the status quo with subliminal messages in mass media.


O fauno das montanhas by Manuel Luís Vieira


cloud studies of Constable, seascapes of Turner and nocturnes of Whistler.


Cloud Study[55] (1821) is an oil on paper by John Constable in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art.


"I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs."

Alejandro Jodorowsky's first film in 23 years

The Dance of Reality (2013) is an autobiography by Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 1929) [56].


Roscelin condemned in 1093 for holding that the Trinity was tritheism

Unprovable are original sin, trinity, resurrection, creation 'in time', says Thomas Aquinas. --Koen Verrycken.

"non sunt articuli fidei sed praeambula ad articulos"

article of faith


Sun Setting over a Lake[57] (c. 1840) by J. M. W. Turner reminds me Goya's pinturas negras and Rothko's work.


The subliminal film still of an erect penis[58] in the MTV-style film montage at the beginning of Ingmar Bergman's Persona (1966) appears to have been copied[59] in the film Fight Club (1999). The difference is that in Bergman's Persona the film still is several frames long, clearly visible to the naked eye, whereas in Fight Club it is only one frame long, it can only be consciously seen by pausing the video.


Law of excluded middle

Law of thought


On the opening page of Perfume, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is compared to Marquis de Sade, Louis Antoine Saint-Just, Joseph Fouché, and Bonaparte.


Fierensblok baksteenmodernisme Gustaaf Fierens


Charles Lieurance

Arthur I. Keller


The Great Chain of Being (Ernst Haeckel) The modern theory of the descent of man, by Ernst Haeckel, published in Anthropogenie oder Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen (The Evolution of Man),1874. The figure show the human pedigree as a Great Chain of Being, illustrated by modern and fossil species [60]


John Gray's superb The Silence of the Animals (2013) mentions the human animal. This had me stumble upon Desmond Morris's The Human Animal.

Above is the first episode of this documentary.

All six of them are on YouTube as I write this.

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Pan Reclining[62] by Rubens


The earth rotates around the sun at 100,000 kilometers per hour


Soumission (English: Submission) is the new book by Michel Houellebecq.


A Steampunk's Guide to Sex (2012) is a book by Professor Calamity, Alan Moore and Luna Celeste

“We men of science are called upon to pursue devices of pleasure at all costs.” —J.K. Huysmans
“We must bring everything we have from our progressive [scientific] arsenal to stop the war of lust that threatens our country and civilization itself" --Anthony Comstock

"Goya influenced many artists, particularly Gericault, Delacroix, and Daumier." --Modern Prints & Drawings[63] by Paul J. Sachs


From Marcel Brion's anthology of fantastic art L'art fantastique (1961)


User:Jahsonic/I remember Sottsass's Superboxes


User:Jahsonic/I remember seeing Dansen Roels when we came out of the tunnel


User:Jahsonic/Georges Bataille on Goya



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