Shade drawing (via Hel Des)
As seen on wood_s_lot…
Instant Karma’s gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead…
Kerouac family in a bar, 1944. From left to right: Jack Kerouac, Caroline (“Nin”) Kerouac, Gabrielle Kerouac, and Leo Kerouac.(via)
Robert Mangold (born Oct. 12, 1937) is an American minimalist artist.
“Robert Mangold’s paintings are more complicated to describe than they seem, which is partly what’s good about them: the way they invite intense scrutiny, which, in the nature of good art, is its own reward.” - Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times in 1997
Above: X Within X Orange, 1981
See also Ring - Image A
I am fascinated with Ohio-born artist Lucius Kutchin (Oct. 11, 1901 -1936), also known as Lucius Brown, or Lou Kutchin - partly because there is so little info on his life available on-line, and partly of course he was so good and died so young…
Here a glorious canvas by him: The Girl In Green
Since last year’s post on him, I have found out a tiny bit more about him and a few more works, but nothing yet on his early death - so I guess I’ll have to buy the only book on him, a tiny 33 page volume titled Personal Mythologies, published by the Columbus Museum of Art in the late 80s…
And what did Lucius correspond with composer Virgil Thomson about?
Best post from Oct. 12, 2008 on OF may well be this:
Joan Brown, American artist, born on Oct. 12, 1938: Nude, Dog, Clouds, 1963 (Smithsonian)
But do check out the whole production from this day last year…
Guidi Molinari (Oct. 12, 1933 - 2004): Mutation rythmique bi-jaune, 1965 - acrylic and latex on canvas © Succession Guido Molinari/SODRAC (Montréal) 2007, Collection du Musée d’art de Joliette
Mutation rythmique bi-jaune is a large-scale painting composed of vertical stripes, of equal width, in varying hues of yellow, orange and brown. Each colour band has straight, distinct edges separating it from the others. The paint is applied in a uniform flat fashion and covers the entirety of the canvas. The juxtaposition of the coloured bands creates the illusion that some of the stripes are closer to the surface than others, and that the areas where the colours meet are moving or vibrating. These visual tricks identify this work with the Op Art movement. In purely technical terms, the sharply delineated areas of colour place this work also in the Hard Edge movement popularized by American artists like Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella. In the Quebec context. Mutation rhythmique bi-jaune is a product of Molinari’s dedication to the Neo-Plasticist approach that rejected the Automatist idea of spontaneous, objective abstraction in favour of a dedication to formal qualities of pure colour and geometric forms.” (Source)
Oh LIFE:
“Author William Burroughs, an ex-dope addict, relaxing on a shabby bed in what is known as a Beat Hotel.” - photo by Loomis Dean, 1959
In memoriam, Irving Penn - 1917 - Oct. 7, 2009…
A 1949 Penn study of his wife Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn
Walt Whitman’s notebook.walkwhilereading. you are my favorite blog.
Very kind. Thank you.
Today’s birthdays:
African-American poet and activist Amiri Baraka, who never minces his words, is 75 today! Let’s celebrate with bravura while he is still alive!
In Memory of Radio
Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
(Only Jack Kerouac, that I know of: & me.
The rest of you probably had on WCBS and Kate Smith,
Or something equally unattractive.)
What can I say?
It is better to haved loved and lost
Than to put linoleum in your living rooms?
Am I a sage or something?
Mandrake’s hypnotic gesture of the week?
(Remember, I do not have the healing powers of Oral Roberts…
I cannot, like F. J. Sheen, tell you how to get saved & rich!
I cannot even order you to the gaschamber satori like Hitler or Goddy Knight)
& love is an evil word.
Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean?
An evol word. & besides
who understands it?
I certainly wouldn’t like to go out on that kind of limb.
Saturday mornings we listened to the Red Lantern & his undersea folk.
At 11, Let’s Pretend
& we did
& I, the poet, still do. Thank God!
What was it he used to say (after the transformation when he was safe
& invisible & the unbelievers couldn’t throw stones?) “Heh, heh, heh.
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows.”
O, yes he does
O, yes he does
An evil word it is,
This Love.***********
I am not lazy.
I am on the amphetamine of the soul.
I am, each day,
typing out the God
my typewriter believes in.
Very quick. Very intense,
like a wolf at a live heart.
Not lazy.
When a lazy man, they say,
looks toward heaven,
the angels close the windows.
Oh angels,
keep the windows open
so that I may reach in
and steal each object,
objects that tell me the sea is not dying,
objects that tell me the dirt has a life-wish,
that the Christ who walked for me,
walked on true ground
and that this frenzy,
like bees stinging the heart all morning,
will keep the angels
with their windows open,
wide as an English bathtub.
Frenzy, Anne Sexton - via dialogues
Anne Sexton has the ability to take my breath away, even if it’s just for a moment.
(via walkwhilereading)
Christopher Columbus writing in his diary upon landing in Hispaniola, from A People’s History of the United States
Fuck him.
(via unburyingthelead)
(via curate)
And, as usual, the greatest unloved post on OF from exactly one year ago, Oct. 10, 2008:
Two of Allen Ginsberg’s graphic art pieces from late in his life:
Above: Ballad of the Skeletons, 1996
Below: Untitled, 1998 (an Ouroboros)
Tadanori Yokoo, poster, america - second view (1968) (via A Journey Round My Skull)
Despite masterful propaganda to the contrary (including right here on Tumblr):
“The core of Obama’s funding was financial institutions.”
(Smiling all the way…)
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