Thursday, February 23, 2006

last night, we ...

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... flew back from ...

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... barcelona ! where else might ...

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... a major attraction ...

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... be ...

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... the hospital ?

hospital de la santa creu i san pau

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tapies; i can see why people like him, but it fails to connect for me

this painting is about twelve feet wide, the "ground" is yellow sand, about a quarter-inch thick, presumably mixed with glue, some of the marks were gouged into it; what does the rough "text" signify ?

i enjoy it's vigour but what puzzles me is that i can't follow the process of its creation as any kind of narrative, so is it just itself ? nothing more ?

i always imagine that stuff gets shown in galleries because it exemplifies some sort of ideal, or the opposite if it is iconoclastic

one commentator says that a tapies canvas is a gate to a spiritual dimension, but you could say that for any work of art ... almost as a universal truism of what distinguishes the artists we most value from all the others

please will some kind and patient reader explain what distinguishes this work for them from a million other pieces of outdoor graffiti ? translate him for me, please ?

perhaps it is too exclusively coded to be an enigma, so why say so little when you could say so much ?





n.b. here's a link to someone else's view of a similar painting by the artist ...

http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_md_153_1.html

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casa mettler and casa battlo

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casa metller

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parc guell cloisters

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parc guell higgledy piggledy tiles i

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parc guell higgledy piggleddy tiles ii

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best dressed parc guell visitors

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the manchester of the south

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kaleidoscopicgothic, from the heights ...

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... to the depths

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cloister guards in the barri gotico

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i wonder if they're edible ?

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call the bomberos ! there's a unicorn stuck on that buttress

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posh barcelona c.1500

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comings ...

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... and goings



via the lovely 4 gats restaurant

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go to the lovely opera house ...

palau de la musica catalana

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... by day or by night ...

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... with it's wonderfully planned cafe

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