Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) - The Grand Odalisque, 1814
The faculty of the imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.
Simone de Beauvior
It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.
Georges Braque
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Paul Cezanne
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their colour or smell . . . Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself.
Lucian Freud
Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.
Remy de Goncourt
Body experience . . . is the centre of creation. I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
Barbara Hepworth
The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.
August Macke
I want to reach that state of condensation of sensations which constitutes a picture.
Henri Matisse
All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particular sense more active and more acute.
Henry Moore
Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.
Plutarch
The Week In Review
Films:
Roma, città aperta (Rome, Open City), 1945 - d. Roberto Rosselini
Paisà (Paisan), 1946 - d. Roberto Rosselini
Germania, anno zero (Germany Year Zero), 1947 - d. Roberto Rosselini
Crumb, 1994 - d. Terry Zwigoff
Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist, 1997 - d. Kirby Dick
In the Realms of the Unreal, 2004 - d. Jessica Yu
The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite), 2007 - d. Fatih Akin
Television:
Entourage: Series 1-3
Books:
Baudelaire by Claude Pichois
Articles & Chapters:
Salon Rhetoric by P. ten-Doesschate Chu
City vs. Country: The Rural Image in French Painting from Millet to Gauguin by R. Herbert
To Create a Living Art: Rethinking Courbet's Landscape Painting by Mary Morton
Pre-Raphaelite Realism: Landscape and the Human Model by Elisabeth Prettejohn
Courbet and Popular Imagery: An Essay on Realism and Naivete by M. Shapiro
Rejecting Nothing, Selecting Nothing by A. Staley
The Topographical Aesthetic in French Tourism and Landscape by Greg M. Thomas
Exhibitions:
Fiona Hall: Force Field - Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney)
Music:
String Quartets - Benjamin Britten
String Quartets - Michael Nyman
Third (2008) - Portishead
String Quartets - Michael Tippett
Films:
Roma, città aperta (Rome, Open City), 1945 - d. Roberto Rosselini
Paisà (Paisan), 1946 - d. Roberto Rosselini
Germania, anno zero (Germany Year Zero), 1947 - d. Roberto Rosselini
Crumb, 1994 - d. Terry Zwigoff
Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist, 1997 - d. Kirby Dick
In the Realms of the Unreal, 2004 - d. Jessica Yu
The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite), 2007 - d. Fatih Akin
Television:
Entourage: Series 1-3
Books:
Baudelaire by Claude Pichois
Articles & Chapters:
Salon Rhetoric by P. ten-Doesschate Chu
City vs. Country: The Rural Image in French Painting from Millet to Gauguin by R. Herbert
To Create a Living Art: Rethinking Courbet's Landscape Painting by Mary Morton
Pre-Raphaelite Realism: Landscape and the Human Model by Elisabeth Prettejohn
Courbet and Popular Imagery: An Essay on Realism and Naivete by M. Shapiro
Rejecting Nothing, Selecting Nothing by A. Staley
The Topographical Aesthetic in French Tourism and Landscape by Greg M. Thomas
Exhibitions:
Fiona Hall: Force Field - Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney)
Music:
String Quartets - Benjamin Britten
String Quartets - Michael Nyman
Third (2008) - Portishead
String Quartets - Michael Tippett
