Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Two days of Happiness Experiment entries - Summer Days of Freedom

Wed 30 Aug

BAFTA & Chelsea Arts Club

Liverpool poet Brian Patten reciting a pie to Binia & me in the garden of the Chelsea Arts Club

Sharing the Rachman story with John N who loved it

Reviving Power to the People with Mark Stevenson in Borough

Thurs 31

Channel 4land & Kipferl & Eneko

Eneko late lunch with Leslie including fruity wine punch & Catalan pork 

A scriptwriting book as present from Leslie as we prep Creative England

Eating & chatting with Simon Wells & Harry Cymbler as I enjoyed my new-found liberty 


Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Russell Cotes museum, Bournemouth

Gilded peacock cornicing - Dining room

Frith - RamsgateSands 1854
Crowded as fuck
Covered up Muslim style

Rossetti
Venus Verticordia 1864
Cf Klimt - gilding
 Theatrical - scenery, layers
Jane Morris? Strong face - Alexa Wilding
His only nude in oil

I want an indoor fountain
Main Hall cf Leighton House

The first funeral 
Louis Ernest  Barrias - Fr
Adam & Eve mourners? Abel
1890-00
Bronze
Eve moving
Abel beautiful

The Silent Evening hour
Joseph Farquharson
A woodland light you can't capture - like the pine avenue in Bournemouth today

Leighton
Perseus & Andromeda study 1892

Victorian intensity

Pharaohs Daughter
John adams-Acton 1865
Marble
Bad relief in base of bust

Cleopatra
Eugenio Lombardi lateC19
Marble

Her first love
G Sheridan knowles
Is a bunny - provocative hint of emerging sexuality in male eye

Psyche at throne of Venus
E matthew hale
Interesting power rel & composition (tall canvas)

Midsummer
Albert Moore
1887
Mixture of allegory and realism
Sleepy
Graphical comp
Egyptian profiles
Powerful use of orange
Aesthetic movement
Symbolist
Sig & date on vase

Jezebel
Byrne shaw
Irish?
Black women look Polynesian
Suggestive flowers cf okeefe
She was nude originally 

The moorish proselytes
Edwin Long
Converting Muslims in Granada 1500

Aurora Triumphans <86
Evelyn de Morgan
Luminescent
Leighton Ho
Androgynous middle angel

The bathers alarmed
Solomon  j Solomon
So many Vic paintings excuses for female nudity & voyeurism

Atkinson grimshaw
An Autumn idyll *
V distinctive light & palette

Judith
C h landelle
Pupil of delaroche
Cf Klimt
Suende

Arthur hughes
Little one who straight has come 
Cf Burne Jones - angelic stairway
Shades of nativity

Good news & bad news
John bagnold burgess
Hardy - letters

The bather *
Thomas Ronaldson
C1930
I'm a sucker for De dos - Horst
Ingres
Scott Fitzgerald

Spray
Harold Williamson 
1940
Bold angle
Laura knight 


The mannequin
<1938
Andreas Carse
Cf Frith - crowd

William roberts
The happy family
1924
Clash between subject & style 

Christopher Nevins
1917
The war profiteers
Theatrical lighting
Grosz 









Wednesday, August 03, 2016

Courtauld Kossoff & Auerbach

Auerbach - head of kossoff 57 charcoal on paper
Private Coll

Kossoff - head of Seedo 64
Oil
PCol
V Auer in style
Jesus
Sculptural 

York Way railway bridge 66/7 PCol
Oil on board
Kos
Fluent
V Auer in style

Auer
Rebuilding of empire cinema L Sq
62
Oil
Courtauld
Browns
Highly abstracted/geometric

Auer
Carreras Factory
61 
Oil on bd
PCol

Greys B&W 

Georgiana Houghton - Spirit Drawings - Courtauld Gallery

Outsider Art
Delaunay
Kandinsky
Yeats?
43 survive
Melbourne
Aboriginal 
1871 exhibition New Brit Gal bond st
Memoirs 
Dr Barnaby Wright - Courtauld talk 
Rousseau

The Eye of God 1862 25/9
Breakthrough
Fractals
Spirograph
Moore/Hepworth

Anna Maria howitt watts 1st Brit spirit artist 
1814-84

The holy trinity
29/11/61 
Part breakthrough

Map contours
Nature math forms




Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Rump steak beautifully cooked by D after Gordon Ramsay shared with the Enfants Terribles

Business opportunity with cousin Richard S in NYC discussed at The Phoenix

Business partnership with Simon G chatted about at Wellcome Collection