Centre Georges Pompidou (Round 2)
David Hockney, A Retrospective
nice incidental text in work of the early 60s’ > My Brother is Only Seventeen / The Third Love Painting / Tyger Painting #2 (1960)
Re: The Cha Cha Cha that was danced in the early hours of 24th March 1961 > “The flamenco that was danced in early hours of Kassel”, haha
A Bigger Splash is disappointing in the flesh... the taped edges and little ridges of paint interrupt the splash (these ridges are everywhere in his work)
he can't paint feet... stumps in Portrait of an Artist; socks in The Room; Tarsana; socks and obscuring in Man in Shower in Bevery Hills and Domestic Scene Los Angeles; feet buried in carpet of Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy
Walker Evans retrospective
the American vernacular expressed through advertising signs > he was fascinated by obsolescence
“In the 60s and 70s he looked especially for spelling mistakes on road-side adverts. Evans was fascinated by typography, by pictograms and logos, interested in the way a letter became image, a drawing a sign > cf. Robert Macpherson
A Moveable Feast
[Katherine] Mansfield was like near-beer. It was better to drink water. (101)
My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing. (149)