"They'd thrown themselves into it as if it were the sea, and now, just like a treacherous sea, surrealism threatens to sweep them out to the open ocean where sharks of madness cruise".

from 'une vague des reves', louis aragon

remodernism

ok, so i found what i was looking for. almost exactly. [it took 10 years?]. but has anything good come out of it in terms of visual art?

the manifesto

what has happened in the last 10 years with this? what else has cropped up?

frida kahlo

i wondered why i waited to post about her. now i know why. there's no one like her anymore.

"They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris." [on Andre Breton and the European surrealists]

"I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was."

"They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality."

"I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."

i really want to get a pipe

david sylvester - art critic [1924-2001]

interview with sylvester by bbc3

pre-ww2 much more interesting than post-ww2.

japanese art

edo period [within which originated ukiyo-e 'the floating world' wood block prints representing geishas, kabuki, courtesans, sumo;]- 17th- 20th c

meiji period [meiji restoration ended the edo period and japan's seclusion; hence inciting the 'japonism' phenomenon in the west , especially france, at this time]- 1868-1912

asia week exhibitions

william baziotes