SONG OF THE EARTH:
NEW SCROLL PAINTINGS
Salle des gardes, au vieux Château,
Gréoux-les-Bains
August 7-31, 2009
Click here for how to find Gréoux!
DAS LIED VON DER ERDE
"The Song of the Earth"
six panels each 220 x 85 cms, oil & charcoal on free-hanging canvas;
August/September 2008
Seen here propped against the studio wall, 20th October, 2008.
The panels do not themselves strictly follow the Chinese texts of the six movements of Mahler's great orchestral song cycle (which is 100 years old this year), but yet...
A view of the studio and a sketchbook...
THREE LANDSCAPES
all 150 x 90 cms, oil & charcoal on free-hanging canvas; June 2008
left: "Drei Sonnen...", Nietzsche's Walk at Eze on a hot day...
middle: Climbing my Almond Tree in the Rioja...
right: "Il faut cultiver notre jardin...", my chair in the gardens of Villa Parasol...
IL FAUT CULTIVER NOTRE JARDIN...
160 x 220 cms, oil & charcoal on free-hanging canvas;
September/October 2008
The artist's garden and his glass of wine...
[This poor photograph will be replaced.]
[See also www.villaparasol.com/vpVoltTop.htm.]
TRISTAN III
160 x 220 cms, oil & charcoal on free-hanging canvas;
September/October 2008
The Tristan of Act III of Wagner's drama, looking and imploring out to sea...
[Photographed as at 23rd October 2008.]
NB: This painting will be displayed at the Scotch Malt Whisky Society exhibition "Ménages à trois...", till late January 2009. After all, it is a ménage à trois.... See www.villaparasol.com/mena3.htm for details of that show.
OTHER HANGING SCROLLS: 2008
Villa Fôret; 160 x 220 cms; May, 2008 [private collection]
Nietzsche's Walk at Eze; 160 x 220 cms; August 2008 [Philosophy Faculty, Cambridge University]
[See scrolls08/PhilosophyNewsletter2008JB.pdf and www.villaparasol.com/EzeFNtop.htm.]
EARLIER HANGING SCROLLS: 2005/6
left: Cross-Rhythms; or, The Jazz Curtain...; 2005
right: Noah, drunk; 2006
[See www.villaparasol.com/ftTop.htm.]
St Francis listens to a bird at San Marco, Florence; 2006/2008
SEE ALSO
Stations of the Cross as from the Eyes of Jesus
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