20th May 2011 Heard It Through The Grapevine ...

Too much information and excessive technology are the 2 things that leave a lot of people more traumatised than their day to day life present them.
 

~ That counts for at least half my problems for sure! But I feel that if I ignore both, I will likely suffer even more. My conclusion is, that certain problems are necessary, to keep me alert and challenged.
 

The anxiety to have more of everything is the worst enemy of happiness.
 

~ I will gladly have more of something and less of the other things.
 

Larry David (talking to Jeff in 'Curb your enthusiasm') says: "Have you ever tried peeing sitting down? It's comfortable. If you have to go in the middle of the night, you don't need to switch on the light. Day time you can read. If you pee 20 times a day, you can swallow up the New York Times whole! Man, while you pee on your shoes, I learn things!"
 

~ Why am I not a brilliant know-all?
 

Overheard in a coffee shop: "Today is so very pleasant and lovely. It's like a Sunday with Paella in open air in the country!"
 

~ That's indeed rather pleasant. But my ideal Sunday would definitely involve another person, with or without Paella, in the country or not.
 

Two women in a cafe where I go each morning were talking about what would make them instantly happy.  After naming and discussing several different tangible material gains or imaginative happenings, both agreed on a lottery win.
 

~ It sounds unbelievable, but I have never in my life bought a lottery ticket. No wonder I have never had instant happiness. I think happiness is a slow build-up of many small things that makes you feel gratified and content. Not likely instant. 

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20th May 2011 Heard It Through The Grapevine ...

Too much information and excessive technology are the 2 things that leave a lot of people more traumatised than their day to day life present them. 

~ That counts for at least half my problems for sure! But I feel that if I ignore both, I will likely suffer even more. My conclusion is, that certain problems are necessary, to keep me alert and challenged. 

The anxiety to have more of everything is the worst enemy of happiness.

~ I will gladly have more of something and less of the other things.

Larry David (talking to Jeff in 'Curb your enthusiasm') says: "Have you ever tried peeing sitting down? It's comfortable. If you have to go in the middle of the night, you don't need to switch on the light. Day time you can read. If you pee 20 times a day, you can swallow up the New York Times whole! Man, while you pee on your shoes, I learn things!"

~ Why am I not a brilliant know-all?

Overheard in a coffee shop: "Today is so very pleasant and lovely. It's like a Sunday with Paella in open air in the country!" 

~ That's indeed rather pleasant. But my ideal Sunday would definitely involve another person, with or without Paella, in the country or not.

Two women in a cafe where I go each morning were talking about what would make them instantly happy.  After naming and discussing several different tangible material gains or imaginative happenings, both agreed on a lottery win.

~ It sounds unbelievable, but I have never in my life bought a lottery ticket. No wonder I have never had instant happiness. I think happiness is a slow build-up of many small things that makes you feel gratified and content. Not likely instant.

20th May 2011 Work In Progress - Art Before It's Art

Leonardo DA Vinci, Tintoretto and Picasso prepared their art work with rough sketches. Like most artists I guess, just an outline, a draft, a few dots and lines ... before and until photography was invented. That had served many artists, painters and sculptors as support sketches or drafts for their creations. It was well known that Josep Maria Sert (Barcelona 1874-1945) was one of them, hailed as one of the greatest European painters in the 20th century, of gigantic murals. 

 

He was also a collector of photographs and almost always went around carrying a camera. What's not known was up to what point he counted on this technique, how he used it in a systematic way to study the shape and form, to construct his gigantic murals. That's what the Exhibition of Josep Maria Sert revels. The photographic archives of the model, the working process.

 

The exhibition redeems more than 50 exceptional photos till now never shown or edited. They belong to Leonard Mancini, assistant of Sert in the Work Studio of woodcraft, gilder that covered objects with gold plates, with whom the artist prepared his works and, above all, model for the study of anatomy for the monumental art done by the painter. 

 

It's just the opposite of the objective of an exhibition, because none of the pieces were completed. They were preliminary exercises that shows the method of how he created his impressive masterpieces, the art 'work in progress'. The exhibition reveals the procedures of the process. They are photos of the workings, well worn by much use during the process, with annotations and very rough sketches at the back of them. Studies done with objects of real bodies after interminable poses; epic scenes mounted with figures, clay dolls, wood dioramas (3 dimensional representation of scenes created by placing objects, figures, etc., in front of a 2 dimensional painted background), ropes and chains, oddments of cloth ... images that constituted the discovery of the 1st order that in the future could become public patrimony.

 

The Exhibition is opened to visitors in the Arts Santa Monica, each day till the 11th of September, free. Well worth the visit.

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