Notices by Tarnport (tarnport@mastodon.green), page 2

Stella. Hagmatana III, 1967.

It's 10 feet tall and it does not want to be anything more than surface. In the 1972 video he talks about 1959, which is the equivalent of 2011 from our own time. The pace of social change after 1960 was incredible. Also I think pot must have been milder, for him to just keep going on like that, never mind the camera person and the b&w/color.

https://youtu.be/cN_rRCfRdmQ?feature=shared

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Cezanne. The Bridge at Maincy, 1879.

I have a soft spot for paintings which highlight an obscure place or viewpoint which almost anyone else would miss.

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Some French fall color and trivia for you today:

Van Gogh. Two works from 1889, both painted while on day-leave from the asylum in Saint-Rémy. They are often conflated and confused.

The first #painting is called The Large Plane Trees, and it was executed on a tablecloth.

The second one is a copy on canvas, called The Road Menders.

I'm amazed by how few alterations he came to in repeating the work.

@bmacDonald94 ha! Did they follow that?

@bmacDonald94 in college during counterprotested pride parades we used to whisper all together, "Bring back the lions. Bring back the lions." Theyd eventually quiet down just to try and make out what everyone was chanting. It was worth it just to see their faces.

Sweet dreams, y'all.

Georgia O'Keeffe. Blue and Green Music, 1921.

The image has been brightened, but I think it's necessary to capture the vibrant blue strokes on our screens.

The Ukrainian boy flew his drone today and took pictures of the farm and river from high up in the air, a birds-eye view. It was magical, and I was most taken by all of our many shades of green, as seen from above. That feels right, and also humbling, in perspective, a bit like the "blue marble" earth pics from space.

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Us, all our lives, as seen from high up and far away.

Wandering out to the garden with my coffee this morning, my long suspicion has been confirmed: It's a Chekhov play.

The boneless chicken-wing bone reminds me of a favorite realization when I first moved to France: An expat blogger noted my own experience, that the eggs often have poop and feathers on them, and that pretty soon you're asking, why have I never seen poop and feathers on my eggs in America!??

@TheBreadmonkey I'm not watching but I thought it was a french joke (mignon/minion)

I was not expecting today. We have not seen this kind of energy since Obama, around December 2008. We are all on the same page for once. Let no one drive a wedge! And buy up all the fluorescent green sticky notes, apparently.

Jesus as The Good Shepherd in the St. Callixtus Catacombs, Rome, 3rd c.

I've been thinking a lot recently about how we got to Trump, how empires decline and morph, and particularly how religion serves and then is replaced. This meek, very human depiction of Christ was easy to pass off during the so-called persecution period bc it was also a pagan theme at the time. His image became more kingly after the legalization of the cult, and eventually became warlike by the 6th c. #painting

Return to a garden in rioting chaos. Seems about right.

(Part 4, the daylilies)

You are talking to the whole world on Mastodon, unfiltered. Unless you specify for us, we don't know where "here" is to you, where you live, what government or regional weather you are talking about, or even what hemisphere in what season. "The President" or "this country" or "downtown" mean little without that context. Thanks.

Wait wait wait. People think Columbus landed in the United States? Where?? Omg. It's like we need to re-do elementary education on a whole country. Plus what about San Domingo and de Pineda and... This is all on Wikipedia ffs.

Quick pass through Orgueil: The apse ceiling was recently featured as a Wiki Image of the Day, and that surprised and delighted me because in all the world it's just next door. I decided to give it another gander this New Year's day.

Clematis gone to seed.

#Bloomscrolling

Tybee in December.

Nikolai Yaroshenko (Russian, 1846-1898)
For an ordinary genre painter, I believe he had a special talent for arrestingly intense portraits across all social classes.

Peasant 1874
Portrait of a young woman 1893
Portrait of a young man 1886
The student 1881

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