by Man Ray (1919, oil on canvas, 71.12 x 55.88 cm).
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Weird Life
Posted in Art with tags Art, painting, Remedios Varo, Weird Life on May 30, 2018 by telescoper
by Remedios Varo Uranga (1908-63), painted in 1945, 20 × 15.5cm, gouache on paper.
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Painting with Two Balls
Posted in Art with tags Art, Jasper Johns, Paiting with Two Balls on November 28, 2017 by telescoper
Jasper Johns, Painting with Two Balls, 1960 Encaustic and collage on canvas with objects, 65 x 54 in, on display at the Royal Academy until December 10th 2017.
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Posted in Art with tags Art, Kazimir Malevich, The Black Square on November 6, 2017 by telescoper
Kazimir Malevich, The Black Square, 1915, oil on linen, 79.5 x 79.5 cm, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Posted in Art with tags Art, Kazimir Malevich, Suprematism, Supremus No. 58 on October 1, 2017 by telescoper
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1879–1935).Oil on canvas (79.5 x 70.5 cm); painted 1916. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
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Mysteries of the Horizon
Posted in Art with tags Art, mysteries of the horizon, painting, René Magritte on June 24, 2017 by telescoper
Arrivé à Paris
Posted in Art with tags Art, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Olafur Eliasson, Paris on December 15, 2014 by telescoperWell, here I am in a misty and murky and rather cold Paris. My first trip on the Eurostar from St Pancras as it happens. I’ve used the train to get to Paris before, but the last time was a long time ago when it departed from a temporary station at Waterloo. Anyway, there’s a direct train from Brighton to St Pancras International. Although it was about half an hour late, I still had time for a bite to eat before boarding. The train was pretty full, but ran on time and I got into Gare du Nord just before 4pm local time. A short (and inexpensive) trip on the Metro brought me to the hotel where I’ll be staying the night.
There is a conference going on in Paris this week about Planck but that’s not why I’m here. In fact I’m attending the opening of “Contact”, an exhibition by Olafur Eliasson at the Fondation Louis Vuitton.
I was toying with the idea of combining this event with the Planck meeting, but (a) I’ve got too much to do to stay for the whole week and (b) I don’t think there’ll be much new at the Planck meeting anyway.
Anyway, Olafur very kindly asked me to write something for the catalogue, as the exhibition has something of an astronomical theme and I guess that’s why I got the VIP invitation. There’s something called a cocktail dinatoire afterwards which I presume involves large amounts of alcohol. That may fortify me for the impending REF results, which are due out later this week..
Anyway, I’ll post about the exhibition if I get time tomorrow morning before the journey home. It doesn’t open for the general public until Wednesday 17th December, by the way, in case you’re in Paris and thinking of taking a look for yourself.
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Posted in Art with tags Art, bust on December 14, 2014 by telescoper
I have acquired (for safe keeping) the plaster-cast portrait bust shown in the above image. Anyone care to guess (a) who it is and (b) which artist made it? Hint: there is a physics theme….
Answers through the comments box please!
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Posted in Art, Politics with tags Art, climate change, Copenhagen, Ice Watch, installation, IPCC, Olafur Eliasson on October 30, 2014 by telescoperI thought I’d share this video about an installation called Ice Watch, which involves one hundred tonnes of inland ice from Greenland meltinging on the Radhusplads, Copenhagen’s City Hall Square. With Ice Watch, Olafur Eliasson and Minik Rosing direct attention to the publication of the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report on the Earth’s Climate. The ice now melted, which happened faster than expected owing to the unusually warm weather for this time of year…
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Moonrise, Hernandez
Posted in Art, The Universe and Stuff with tags Ansel Adams, Art, Hernandez, New Mexico, photography on November 1, 2013 by telescoperDuring the late afternoon twilight of November 1st 1941, 72 years ago today, renowned American photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams took this wonderful photograph of the moon over Hernandez, New Mexico. It’s such a celebrated image that it even has its own wikipedia page, but because it seems to fit the theme of this blog I couldn’t resist sharing it here:
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In the Dark 