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

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.

#painting

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

#Painting

Deborah Zlotsky. Insofar, 2012.

#Painting

Mainie Jellett. Abstract Composition, 1935.
She was instrumental in establishing abstract #Painting in Ireland, though her subject matter remained very Irish-traditional and often religiously Catholic, even icon-like. She was strong and eloquent, an avid feminist, studied under André Lhote in Paris, but unfortunately died very young.

Tarsila do Amaral. A Negra, 1923.
Another woman paving the way to Brazilian modernism in the early 20th c. This portrait was painted within 1 year of the last #Painting I posted by Malfatti and only a few years after her contemporary challenged entrenched traditionalism in Brazilian painting for the first time. Look at how fast it blew up. This painting is often cropped online to remove the feet, which is odd since do Amaral's most famous painting, Abaporu, is dominated by a similar huge foot.

An 80s "Memphis-style" #Painting by Neil Loeb from a retail site. I'm most interested in the back view, the "bones." It's made to look glossy and post-modern machine-generated ethereal, but that's only artifice, not so different than the illusions of traditional representational art which claim to be windows onto landscapes or people's faces, but in fact are only 2D paint on canvas, too. Rags, wood, pigment - and in this case some bolts, too - arranged to trick the mind into seeing more.

In the USA I was always branded an Extreme Leftist. I came to think it was true. But I've found over 12 years in Europe that I'm not extreme at all, but rather moderate, in fact. It's the USA that was Hard Right. It's all relative. My friends here are mostly farther Left than me. For example, in referring to East Germany as Occupied Germany, or refusing gay marriage as a sellout. It's nice to pass such graffiti and smile at the idealism and not feel indicted, much less responsible.