the stars are clear sounds; the sun a magnificent silence; the moon?...whispers that are almost sounds in the undulating wave of noise the universe is

cracks in stan brakhage's dog star man - prelude - 1964painting in dog star man - preludepainting and some scratching in dog star man, part 3.- related work -jackson pollock - triad - 1948 jackson pollock - number 22a, 1948 - 1948jackson pollock - untitled ca. 1950 (detail)jackson pollock - one: number 31 - 1950jackson pollockbarnett newman - untitled - 1961clyfford still - painting - 1951-

delicate and dreamlike: mikalojus konstantinas čiurlionis

mano kelias IItriptychs: my road - 1907ziema Iwinter: cycle of eight pictures - 1906-7ziema Vwinter: cycle of eight pictures - 1906-7ziema VHwinter: cycle of eight pictures - 1906-7tyla - 1905fuga(musical painting - other preludes and fugues)ziema - 1907sonata of the springpavasario sonata - allegro (musical painting) - 1907pavasaris IIspring: four pictures - 1907-8aquariusthe zodiac: cycle of

lighting on the printless verdure (and at a great distance all appear alike)

and at a great distance all appear alike. the sea, however, is said to be blue one day and green another without any perceptible change in the atmosphere. some consider blue 'to be the colour of pure water'...lying between the heavens it partakes the colour of both...some have referred this to the reflection of the verdure; and it may be simply the result of the prevailing blue mixed with the

nothingness

untitled (plum and dark brown) - 1964your paintings are like my films. they are about nothing... with precisionmichelangelo antonioni to mark rothko, during a visit to rothko's studio in 1962, according to motherwell and peter selzsee temps mort: rothko and antonioni by jeffrey weissfound in mark rothko published by skira - 2008for the complete story

...and every love find its beloved one.

alonso sánchez coelloretrato de las infantas isabel clara eugenia y catalina micaela de habsburgothe years of warmth are soon to be unfolded;the stranger comes and endless time beginswhen earth and sea into sweet love are molded,the queen will wake from dreamland's origins.novalis - henry von ofterdingen(for matthew)

a sound of some new unknown life

why is it so unutterably beautiful? it is pure music, but for me it has so many implications, - hard to define - of course it is enigmatic, all great art has its secrets -; it has all the deep mysteries of the earth and its environs - for me, the agony of the old primitive earth stirring restlessly at the beginning of spring; something tremendous is going on in the earth, but i do not know

of visible secret visions

study for camino real, gouache on paper(blueprint graph), 1967line involvement v, lithograph, 1964enmeshed I, lithograph, 1963... our pounding heart drives us down, deep down to the source of all.what springs from this source, whatever it may be called, dream, idea or phantasy - must be taken seriously only if it unites with the proper creative means to form a work of art.then those dreams

flowers appear (invisible birds)

unir ton système nerveaux au mien dans la nuit profonde de la connaissance, 1936the swan is very peaceful, 1920shoot the moon, 1972illustration from répétitions, paul éluard, 1922kleist, brentano, arnim:caspar david friedrich, seelandschaft mit kapuziner1972loplop, supérieur des oiseaux, 1928paramythes, 1967les diamants conjugaux, 1925quelques animaux dont un illettré, 1973l'oiseau dans la forêt,

the walls are excellent & high & upon an horizontal line

in 1795, when shirley, massachusettes, was a community of 200 shakers living on three thousand acres, an outside observer recorded, "the walls are excellent & high & upon an horizontal line, & as straight as they can be laid."inspired by visionary experiences, the gift drawings bridge the heavenly and the earthly spheres....imaging heaven as a perfectly balanced array of circles, squares, and

then be called ten times a donkey, and a mule, and an ass, and begone, or i’ll clear the world of thee!

classic books (number 4):moby-dick; or, the whale by herman melville, 1851(compiled with great assistance from the famed german librarian, herr t light)such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb. at this hour of the night, of the last day of the week, that quarter of the town proved all but deserted. but

where fuzzy edges and hues of color can lead one to wander...

luna-3 soviet moon images, october 7, 1959'it seemed i was observing the earth from the outside. i was in great empty space and saw the planets rolling quietly.'františek kupka*quote from four possible landscapes liner notes, steve roden'i am in the middle of a mass of thousands of very small particles that are brilliantly lit up like they are luminescent. they are bright yellowish green, about

later than soon: time

*(title from paul celan: for eric from snow part, page 75)

edward hopper

east river 1920-23the sheridan theatre 1937new york movie 1939r3017 r3170i have been drooling over the edward hopper catalogue raisonné now for a while (it is $250.00). since i can't afford it, i look at it from time to time at work. here are some images from volume IV, the cd-rom of his works, including his journals.a great book on hopper's journals/notebooks is: edward hopper: a journal of

la mélancolie et le christ mort

hans holbein the body of the dead christ in the tomb 1521andrea mantegna the lamentation over the dead christ c. 1490dostoyevsky said after viewing hans holbein's the body of the dead christ in the tomb, one might lose their faith and proceeded to write the idiot. that holbein's painting was so visceral then (and still is), is quite wonderful.paintings of - beauty, melancholia, love and

brice marden

went to the brice marden exhibition at the sfmoma today (3.18.2007)and decided to decorate the pages of the art of memory (b)leating (l)ethargic (o)rnery (g)oat with some of his fine images.