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Fortunately it looks like there was just a temporary glitch with my camera today
- all the other photos are OK:
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Saturday, August 3, 2013
David Hockney in 1966
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I have a British Film Institute (BFI) produced dvd called 'A Bigger Splash -
featuring David Hockney'. It is a 1974 documentary by Jack Hazan of three
years in the life of David Hockney and his circle in California. Included on the disk
is also a great James Scott 1966 documentary 'Love's Presentation' of Hockney
working on his Cavafy series of etchings. It was especially exciting for me
to see this film (narrated by Hockney himself) since I have one of the original
prints from the series, and to see him work on this particular etching was
a huge bonus. The print is called 'Two Boys Aged 23 or 24'.
Here's an extract from Love's Presentation on Youtube:
I was inspired to make a collage of Hockney's face as it featured
in the beginning of the film:
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| . David Hockney in 1966 . |
David Hockney (born 1937)
Title: Two Boys Aged 23 or 24
From Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C.P. Cavafy
Date: 1966
Medium: Etching and aquatint on paper
Dimensions image: 345 x 223 mm
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| The DVD/BlueRay disk is available from BFI (http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_22044.html) . |
David Hockney: Etchings for Cavafy
(with the Cavafy poems)
by Goldmark
Friday, August 2, 2013
Have They Been Caught Out Again?
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Some time ago the number of visitors to my site exploded temporarily. It was
because of a post I wrote about a developing scandal regarding to Marimekko,
the iconic Finnish fashion/design house who were caught plagiarising
an illustration of a Ukrainian folk artist by one of their most senior designers
Kristina Isola (the post can be found here). Well, she's actually a free lancer,
and not employed by Marimekko as such - but very much involved in the
futures of the company being the rights holder of her mother Maija Isola's
classic Marimekko designs of the 50's, 60's and the 70's.
YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Company, a few days ago reported on
a speculation about a new controversy regarding to Marimekko (here
in Finnish): Their designer Teresa Moorhouse is being questioned about
her 'Isoisän Puutarha' and 'Sadonkorjuu' textile designs that Marimekko have
just released, which have been noted to resemble the drawings of Pat Hutchins
in her 60's book 'Rosie's Walk'.
I would say Ms Moorhouse used the Hutchins illustrations as a starting point
(which she and Marimekko unfortunately - probably advised by lawyers - deny),
and took it from there. Which I think is OK, considering we are dealing with
design here, not art (although the 80's and 90's post modern appropriation
of art of the past was perhaps guilty of the very same charge).
This is besides the point, I guess, but I do feel I also need to complain about
Marimekko's current website www.marimekko.fi: It is so uncool, and messy...
Even allowing for a temporary error of judgement, I do think they lost it,
when taken over by a financier a few years ago, as opposed to a visionary.
Anyway, here are images of 'granddad's garden' for your consideration:
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| . Hutchins . |
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| . Hutchins . |
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| . Moorhouse . |
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| . Hutchins . |
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| . Moorhouse Granddad's Garden . |
Is Your Profession Taking Over Your Life (yes, please, if it's a creative one)?
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Ralf Forsström, a Finnish set and costume designer,
turned seventy a couple of days ago.
Forsström has residencies in Loviisa, Finland and Bali, Indonesia, and this one
in Sotkamo Finland (Sotkamo is in Northern Finland, next to Kuhmo, where we
attended the memorable Kuhmo International Chamber Music Festival in 2010 -
see my posts of it here). This house has no running water or electricity,
and he's built it himself. For furnishing he's often turned to his old theatre props.
We need more of these crazy people.
(Photos by Niclas Warius, published in Helsingin Sanomat newspaper.)
Thursday, August 1, 2013
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