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Jun 28 2015

art

TENSION

I really, really liked Barbara Hepworth @tate.

It was nearly as good as Agnes Martin @tate modern.

But this wasn’t nothingness. This was… thingness.

*****

Some words: balls, string, paint, tension, very busy, surgery, women, animals, marble, bronze, wood, walking all the way round things, inside, outside, love.

******

It starts of with a room with lots of different sculptures by different people.

I liked the onyx toad the best.

Then there is a room that is all drawings and paintings of her.

Then it’s things actually by her.

5 Colin Stars.

Cheers,

Martin xx

Tagged Art, barbara hepworth, modern art, sculpture, tate, tate britain

Jun 27 2015

art

UNTITLED

Agnes Martin @tate

*****

Some words:

I love the whole world

Happy holidays

Mid winter

One that looks like a face

Buds

Beach

Heather

Starlight

The Heavenly Race

The Garden

Burning Tree

Dominoes

Islands

Schizophrenia

Untitled #1

Untitled

Untitled #14

Untitled #12

Untitled #5

Fiesta

Rain

Oo a rhombus

But of purple

One that looks like an alien

“Titles such as Summer or The Peach might be seen to allude to the beauty of nature.”

Homage to life

Cheers,

Martin xx

Shel Silverstein, ‘The Missing Piece.’

Tagged agnes martin, Art, london, modern art, tate, tate modern

Jun 20 2015

art

HISTORY

I was just thinking to myself: “History painting has a reputation as a conservative art form.”

Then I’m told: “History painting has an undeserved reputation as a conservative art form.”

They are right @tate #fightinghistory.

*****

With all the loud marching outside this was right on the button…

A film on the battle with trade unionists at orgreave (a video display I actually watched) showed a fight with a Conservative government.

“It was winner takes all.. We lost and they took it all.”

In fact it was all brilliant. I found myself actually reading all the labels.

And after the shootings in Charleston it was interesting to see Richard Hamilton’s ‘Kent State’

“Too terrible an incident in American history to submit to arty treatment… Yet it seemed right too that art could help to keep the shame in our minds.”

Some reviews have said this exhibition isn’t very good but it is.

They are wrong and I am right.

Cheers,

Martin xx

Tagged Art, art gallery, conflict, contemporary art, demonstration, jeremy deller, london, modern art, orgreave, protests, richard hamilton, tate, tate britain

May 26 2015

art

CONTAINS FLASHING LIGHTS

So what do you think of this?

Load of old balls?

#supersymmetry @ a car park in soho.

Some words: no lift.

Cheers,

Martin xx

PS it’s something to do with molecules ok? Google it if you’re that interested.

Tagged Art, brewer street, car park, contemporary art, installation, london, ryoji ilkeda, soho, supersymmetry

May 24 2015

art

HEELS

Oo it’s a retrospective.

I’m never going to remember all these people’s names.

Oo some of them are famous.

20 years @Zabludowicz_Col Collection.

*****

Some of their words:

Hd video, steel viewing platform, monitor stand, paddling pool, cat litter, coloured cables

That’s just one piece.

Some of mine:

Cleopatra, rubber, Central Line, butterflies, Victoria Line, spam, Bakerloo Line, shag pile, buy my wife? legs, football, splats, is that Mick Jagger?

****

“Do you continue to talk even when you know no one is listening?”

All the time.

*****

‘I kiss you.’

*****

Please remove heels.

Cheers,

Martin xx

Tagged Art, camden, chalk farm, contemporary art, london, modern art, north london, zabludowicz collection

May 21 2015

art, volunteering, Woodcraft

SPLATTERING

You can get lots of good ideas @woodcraftfolk.
And very few of them are to do with wood craft.

*****

Some of them are to do with splattering paint.
A lot of them are to do with making a mess.
All of them are to do with being creative and letting children take the lead.
Cheers,
Martin xx