tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post5860106250421958857..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Sun and Moon, Rhythm and Colour: Robert DelaunayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-24332270700799869012011-10-08T04:52:46.971-07:002011-10-08T04:52:46.971-07:00Thank you very much, Kent, Steve, Peter, Artur and...Thank you very much, Kent, Steve, Peter, Artur and Curtis.<br /><br />Yes, Artur, with the Delaunays, the unusual angles, close-ups, croppings, do bring our attention to bear on the local textures of the work in a way that's revelatory.<br /><br />The place of colour wheels and geometric schema in the conception of such works has perhaps been a bit over-rated. Granted "concept" is currently credited above "execution" (it's so much lighter, faster, more portable, like an IPhone), still, when one gets a close look at the rich impasto, the bold strokes of the brush, the "wet" feel imparted by rapid work, it's the physical presences of eye/body/hand that seem to be giving all the glory.<br /><br />Not that the concept was half-bad... but just saying. <br /><br />Artur, about hill-rolling...<br /><br />Well, your beautiful hill looks perhaps a bit less "civilized" than Johnson might have preferred, a bit too... shall we say natural? <br /><br />Not a smooth, silky roll, that; more of a full metal jacket sort of venture. <br /><br />One imagines Johnson, hearing this from the coffee house of the shades, mumbling, "Well, yes, such as the hills in Scotland".TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-9359905773778272382011-10-08T03:48:33.436-07:002011-10-08T03:48:33.436-07:00I forgot to say, it's refreshing to see the De...I forgot to say, it's refreshing to see the Delaunays from an oblique angle. I'm so used to seeing them straight on, and it's easy to forget their physical presence when it's a rectangular orthogonal image seen in a book.<br /><br />Artur.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-37909313781137651862011-10-07T19:16:08.662-07:002011-10-07T19:16:08.662-07:00This is simply fabulous. CurtisThis is simply fabulous. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-56944390461536061452011-10-07T12:14:46.784-07:002011-10-07T12:14:46.784-07:00Robert Delaunay and Sonya Delaunay and Walter Benj...Robert Delaunay and Sonya Delaunay and Walter Benjamin were all city folk. But then so was Dr Johnson. I'd like to have seen him rolling down a hill, I'm thinking, probably, Parliament Hill & Hampstead Heath. I may have a roll myself, tomorrow. It's an inexpensive cure for excesses of all kinds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73379156389493859402011-10-07T11:32:03.823-07:002011-10-07T11:32:03.823-07:00Tom,
Beautiful to see all of this -- "When y...Tom,<br /><br />Beautiful to see all of this -- "When you look at colors" (really look at colors) . . . a few white clouds in all that blue, now that the rain is gone. . . .<br /><br />10.7<br /><br />pink white cloud in sky above blackness<br />of ridge, shadowed green leaf on branch<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> perhaps passed over silence,<br /> reflect the fact that<br /><br /> proximity of it in it, more<br /> than that, as much as<br /><br />shadowed canyon of ridge across channel,<br />white cloud in bright blue sky above itSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22073168173629853272011-10-07T11:15:23.832-07:002011-10-07T11:15:23.832-07:00Wow, amazing. Thanks for the exposure(s).Wow, amazing. Thanks for the exposure(s).Peter Greenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17806372860467057912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73558261188265467842011-10-07T10:45:02.442-07:002011-10-07T10:45:02.442-07:00Wait! That was just late-night celebratory dizzin...Wait! That was just late-night celebratory dizziness at the Yankees expense. Now back to our regular TC programming.kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12448791356455016794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21740007735329726262011-10-07T10:39:16.563-07:002011-10-07T10:39:16.563-07:00VERTIGO IN DETROIT WRITES:
When I scroll down too...VERTIGO IN DETROIT WRITES:<br /><br />When I scroll down too fast, it's like rolling down that hill with Dr. J INSIDE a roller coaster! Stop, please TC, stop before I yawn all the technicolors in and beyond nature...kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12448791356455016794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33210708184566597962011-10-07T10:01:02.785-07:002011-10-07T10:01:02.785-07:00I don't know this artist . . . Wow! I have...I don't know this artist . . . Wow! I have to do some homework. I love it.Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-85173458003884803992011-10-07T09:30:28.288-07:002011-10-07T09:30:28.288-07:00Dr. Johnson is said to have loved a good roll down...Dr. Johnson is said to have loved a good roll down a steep green hill, as a therapy for scrofula.<br /><br />He ought have taken Walter by the hand and conducted him for a proper roll down the slope among Artur's extremely green <a href="http://abadguide.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/moss-grass-by-telephone/" rel="nofollow">mosses, grasses and lichens</a>.<br /><br />Possible all purpose cure for neurasthenia, ghostly pallor due to overuse of midnight oil, excessive intellectualism, & c.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21051988050132849402011-10-07T08:47:38.083-07:002011-10-07T08:47:38.083-07:00"The human body cannot produce color."
..."The human body cannot produce color."<br /><br />Yes, but other kinds of bodies evidently can.<br /><br />(Benjamin appears to have been more of an "indoors type"?)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-30719926247140660832011-10-07T08:25:18.914-07:002011-10-07T08:25:18.914-07:00But what about color in nature? The greens of the...But what about color in nature? The greens of the moss I was looking at yesterday were better than anything in my imagination.<br /><br />Artur.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-82538345231490811842011-10-07T07:40:37.001-07:002011-10-07T07:40:37.001-07:00Some earlier swashes...
Colour Separation (Goethe...Some earlier swashes...<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/colour-separation.html" rel="nofollow">Colour Separation (Goethe's Theory of Colour)</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/poetics-of-colour-goetherimbaud.html" rel="nofollow">Poetics of Colour (Goethe/Rimbaud)</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com