Six Images In Search Of An Exhibition XV

Smarter Than Your Average Simian

Dan'l Baboon (Kimba), 1960s

Planet of the Apes, 1968

2001, A Space Odyssey, 1968

Tarzan (Disney), 1999

King Kong, 2005

Space Chimps, 2008

Musique Du Jour: Captured (King Kong soundtrack), John Barry

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Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840): Landscapes Of The Soul

Before Sunrise, 1830-34

Hill and Ploughed Field Near Dresden, 1824

The Garden Terrace, 1811-12

Evening, 1824

The Evening Star, 1830-35

Moonrise over the Sea, 1821

By intuition, Mightiest Things
Assert themselves — and not by terms —
"I'm Midnight" — need the Midnight say —
"I'm Sunrise" — Need the Majesty?

Omnipotence — had not a Tongue —
His lisp — is Lightning — and the Sun —
His Conversation — with the Sea —
"How shall you know"?
Consult your Eye!

Emily Dickinson

Musique Du Jour: Symphoniae (Spiritual Songs), Hildegard von Bingen

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Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)

Picture in Remembrance of Johann Emanuel Bremer, 1817

Griefswald in Moonlight, c. 1817

Northern Sea in the Moonlight, 1823

Swans in the Reeds by Dawn's Early Light, c. 1832

Evening Landscape with Two Men, c. 1830-35

The Nets, c. 1830-35

Art stands as the mediator between nature and humanity. The original is too great and too sublime for the multitude to grasp.

Caspar David Friedrich

Musique Du Jour: String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op.131 - Adagio, Beethoven

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Mary Cassatt (1844-1926): The Minutiae of Motherhood

Mother Playing with Her Child, c.1897

Mother and Child Against a Green Background, 1897

Nurse Reading to a Little Girl, 1895

Maternal Kiss, 1897

Mother Playing with Her Child, c.1897

Mother Combing Child's Hair, 1901

I have touched with a sense of art some people - they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?

Mary Cassatt

Musique du Jour: Maurice Ravel, String Quartet

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Piet Mondrian (1872-1944): Primarily an Abstractionist

Composition A, Composition with Black, Red, Gray, Yellow, and Blue, 1920

Composition with Large Blue Plane, Red, Black, Yellow, and Gray, 1921

Composition blanc, rouge et jaune, 1936

Composition No. 8, 1939-42

Composition No. 10, 1939-1942

New York City, 1941-42

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means we are only line and color.

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore the object must be eliminated from the picture.

Curves are so emotional.

Everything is expressed through relationships.

Intellect confuses intuition.

Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation, still just an external foundation, of things . . .

Reality manifests itself as constant and objective - independent of us, but as changeable in space and time. Consequently, its reflection in us contains both properties. Mixed up in our mind, these properties are confused and we do not have a proper image of reality.

The purer the artist's "mirror" is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective image of reality.

To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.

Piet Mondrian

Musique du Jour: Born Ruffians, Red, Yellow and Blue

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Bruce Nauman (b. 1941): By The Cold Light Of Art - Part One

Self-Portrait as a Fountain, c 1966

The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign), 1967

One Hundred Live and Die, 1984

Mean Clown Welcome, 1985

Human Sexual Experience, 1985

Double Poke in the Eye II, 1985

When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and then I would just do it. At a certain point I realized that it wasn't going to work like that. Basically, I would have to start over every day and figure out what art was going to be.

Bruce Nauman

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Imants Tillers (b. 1950): By The Cold Light Of Art - Part Two

Aftermath I, 1997

Aftermath II, 1997

Body of Knowledge, 2002

Nature Speaks, 2004

Nature Speaks, 2005

Nature Speaks, 2007


Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Jean Baudrillard

Six Images In Search Of An Exhibition X

Tales of the Quotidian Sublime

Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996) - Untitled (Perfect Lovers), 1991

James Turrell (b. 1943) - A Frontal Passage, 1994

Thomas Demand (b. 1964) - Room (Zimmer), 1996

Andreas Gursky (b. 1955) - Times Square, New York, 1997

Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963) - Untitled (Paperbacks), 1997

Matthew Barney (b. 1967) - The Cabinet of Baby Fay La Foe, 2000

'The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.'

Marcel Proust