Composition 14...

Playlist
Mercury Rev – Snowflake Midnight
It Bites – The Tall Ships
Pet Shop Boys - Yes
Depeche Mode – Sounds of the Universe
Schumann – Perahia Plays Schumann
Depeche Mode – The Singles 86-98
Various – Trojan Club Reggae Box Set
Various – Tighten Up Vol 5
The New Odds – Cheerleader
Hank Mobley – Soul Station
Jackie McLean – New Soil

For once, no PC activity first thing...

Shopping instead, for some excellent rye bread, milk and fruit juice re a breakfast at Crispycat Towers...

Then, some time spent with Anne finalising our projected trip around some large cities in the Northern half of England in the late summer...

Later - after boring myself by playing some of my songs, I drove over to the Gallery of Modern Art to take a look at their new presentation, “Artists Rooms”, for which they have set aside rooms to display specific artists such as Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst, the latter taking up almost half of the ground floor...



Anne’s mum would have hated it...

Her quote, later today, was “any art which needs a paragraph next to it to tell you what it means, is rubbish”...

Now, I wish I could remember the name one of the artists who had just one picture on display...

The paragraph next to it stated that art should have no meaning at all but should be judged solely on the basis of its absolute form – he called it "Absolute Art"...

I doubt Anne's mum would have gotten the irony there...

Back home to an episode of “Robin Hood” then round to Jane and Bobby’s for a family barbecue re Oliver’s 8th birthday this week...

The food was plentiful and of the tasty variety, including a “make your own” bannoffee pie scenario...

Much mucking about in the garden was done, including several adults who ought to know better jumping around on the kids’ trampoline, your correspondent included – oh my knees!



Back home and another episode of “Robin Hood” then wrote this up to some groovy jazz sounds, inspired by brother-in-law Keith’s latest splurge on Amazon which has garnered him a few new titles, with the Mobley set awaited with much anticipation...

A good weekend...

Highlight of the Day : Bouncing up and down like an eight year old...

P.S. here you go...

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart
Composition 14
1925

Although the geometric paintings of Vordemberge-Gildewart resemble the work of Mondrian, the approaches of the two artists were entirely different. While Mondrian's art evolved from his spiritual beliefs, Vordemberge-Gildewart shunned all association with spirituality, symbol and metaphor.

He argued that art represented nothing but itself, advocating what he called 'Absolute Art': 'The spiritual in art does not exist. .. For absolute art, so-called content and object are totally impossible.'

This austere approach was reflected in the titles of his paintings which are simply numerical. The artist declared that it was his aim to reconcile art and technology.