There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.

—Lord Byron

Jean Renaudie: Ivry sur Seine Housing

Hermann Nitsch: Das Orgien Mysterien Theater

 

 

 IF IT CAN BE SAID THAT ALL OF CREATION IS MY BODY, IT CAN ALSO BE SAID THAT BEING THAT WHICH PORTRAYS ITSELF IS THEATRE, THE DRAMA OF THE WORLD’S GENESIS AS IT OCCURS, THE CREATION OF BEING. EVEN SO, LIFE BUILT ITSELF ARENAS, CULT SITES, TEMPLES AND CHURCHES, WHERE MASSES OF THE THEATRICAL, OF THE DRAMATIC ARE CELEBRATED. THROUGH THEATRE, BEING SHOULD CARVE ITSELF OUT IN A CONCENTRATED, ESSENTIAL WAY, BRINGING ITSELF INTO THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF HUMAN BEINGS. TRIUMPH OF THEATRE. — Nitsch

 

Richard Wilson. 20:50. 1987. Used sump oil, steel. Dimensions variable.

Angelo Bronzino. Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time.
1545. Mannerism.

Jean Louis Théodore Géricault. The Raft of the Medusa. 1818-1819. Romanticism.

Caspar David Friedrich. Der Mönch am Meer. 1808-10.

Francisco Goya. Saturn Devouring One of his Children. 1819-1823. Romanticism. 

Hieronymus Bosch. The Garden of Earthly Delights. 1490-1510. 

 

James Abbott McNeil Whistler. Nocturne in Black and Gold. 1875. Impressionism. 

 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. At the Moulin Rouge. 1892-95. Post-Impressionism.

 Ilya Repin. Ivan the Terrible and His Son. 1885.

Everett Shinn. The White Ballet. 1904. Impressionism.

Pekka Halonen. The Violinist. 1900. 

 

Waste of time.

 

Hedgehog In The Fog (1975)

 

By Yuriy Norshteyn

Work.

The Loner

Klanten and Visual Culture

Klanten makes an interesting point about "design" or "visual culture" and ways of creating new art. Although there is art that is much too complex to fit into his diagram, it doesn't hurt to start somewhere when you've walked into a creative's block.