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un⋅con⋅scious

–noun

6. the unconscious, Psychoanalysis. the part of the mind containing psychic material that is only rarely accessible to awareness but that has a pronounced influence on behavior.

Eye, Hand, Head

-- Dali


-- Nauman

Pronounced Foot Steps

Francis Bacon's Studio


David Hockney in Freud's studio

Sculpture by the Sea

If you haven't already, then go and see it.

The Final Frontier. . . [SPACE]

Louise Bourgeois

Re - Impression

Bruce Nauman
"One Hundred Live and Die" 1984
Neon tubing mounted on four metal monoliths, 118 x 132 1/4 x 21 inches
Collection Fukake Publishing Co., Ltd., Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York, © Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York



Title : Ocean Without a Shore

Of the work Bill Viola states, “Ocean Without a Shore is about the presence of the dead in our lives. The three stone altars in San Gallo become transparent surfaces for the manifestation of images of the dead attempting to re-enter our world.” “The video sequence describes the human form as it gradually coalesces from within a dark field and slowly comes into view, moving from obscurity into the light. As the figure approaches, it becomes more solid and tangible until it breaks through an invisible threshold and passes into the physical world. The crossing of the threshold is an intense moment of infinite feeling and acute physical awareness. Poised at that juncture, for a brief instant all beings can touch their true nature, equal parts material and essence. However, once incarnate, these beings must eventually turn away from mortal existence and return to the emptiness from where
they came.”

ArtFacts.net

Charles Blackman

Black Ice

Robert Klippel Opus 300 1972-74
construction of brazed and welded steel, found objects and geometric sections
Art Gallery of New South Wales.
The Gleeson O'Keefe Foundation, 2006


Bouquet of Sunflowers by Claude Monet is an
oil on canvas (39-3/4x32-1/8 inches) housed at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

Bridging the . . .

Odd Nerdrum

Odd Nerdrum
Self Portrait in Golden Gown,
1997. Oil painting. 73 3/4 X 56 3/4 in.



Odd Nerdrum
1981. Oil painting. 102x78 inches.

Studies

Valiant

Vanilla

S. Freud

Everywhere i go i find a poet has been there before me - From error to error one discovers [. . .] - Anatomy is destiny - Flowers are restful to look at.They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Form

I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.~ Always lines, never forms! But where do they find these lines in Nature! For my part I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.

I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

-- Goya



I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do. ~ My work is purely autobiographical.. It is about myself and my surroundings. I work from people that interest me and that I care about, in rooms that I know.

-- Freud

E. Manet

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity. ~ Black is not a color. ~ When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug. ~It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.



~ There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.~There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see.~ No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else. ~



There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth. ~

Australian Art

Russell DRYSDALE
The rabbiters (1947)
oil on canvas 76.6cm x 102.5cm height x width Accession no. 1762-4 Purchased, 1947



William DOBELL, Portrait of an artist (Joshua Smith),
1943, oil on canvas, 107 x 76cm. Private collection, © William Dobell, 1941.
Licensed by VISCOPY, Sydney 2003.
Photograph: Jenni Carter for the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

russell drysdale - tom roberts - frederick mccubbin - john longstaff - hans heysen - arthur streeton - brett whiteley - john russell - roy de maistre - rupert bunny - grace cossington - william dobell - charles blackman - robert klippel - margaret olley

Cézanne

Paul Cézanne.
Mount Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bellevue. c. 1882-85. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.



Paul Cézanne.
Still Life with Onions. 1895-1900. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.