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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 24th of January 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories or information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
Gisteren met vier Kiki's naar het Kröller-Müller geweest. — Originally published here: vasilis.nl/voto/met-vier-kikis/160504081327/
File name: 06_10_022141
Title: United States Treasury, Washington, D. C.
Created/Published: Capitol Souvenir Company, Inc., Washington, D. C.
Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Genre: Postcards
Subject: Government facilities
Notes: Title from item.
Collection: The Tichnor Brothers Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions
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Il Lago dei cigni più dinamico, euforico e abbagliante finalmente per la prima volta in Italia.
Swan Lake reloaded, fin dal suo debutto a Stoccolma nel dicembre 2011, è diventato un fenomeno di straordinario successo sia per il pubblico che per la critica.
Grazie al perfetto e originale mash up di musica, danza e design, lo spettacolo continua a registrare sold-out nei principali teatri di tutta Europa (The Coliseum, Londra – Casino de Paris, Parigi – Admiralspalast, Berlino – Maaghalle, Zurigo, solo per citarne alcuni) e il 17 marzo 2014 debutta per la prima volta in Italia al Teatro degli Arcimboldi di Milano.
Swan Lake, la versione Reloaded di Rydman.
Ovvero: come da un negozio fetish di Londra si può trarre ispirazione per un’opera d’arte.
“Stavo dando un'occhiata a Camden Market e ho visto queste gonne di pelle nera con nappe intrecciate”, racconta Rydman. “La cosa strana è che mi hanno ricordato dei cigni scuri e ho pensato: e se i cigni ne Il lago dei cigni fossero prostitute drogate e il cattivo Rothbart il loro protettore? Ero totalmente rapito dall'idea che ho verificato subito su Google se qualcuno avesse già riflettuto su questa interpretazione”.
Nessuno lo aveva fatto.
Čajkovskij a passo di street dance.
La commistione tra stili di danza apparentemente agli antipodi fra loro, street dance e danza classica, si ritrova anche nella scelta delle musiche. Per questa produzione, infatti, Rydman ha utilizzato, insieme alle musiche originali di Čajkovskij, brani composti ad hoc da musicisti pop e rock svedesi e internazionali. L’intuizione del coreografo svedese si è rivelata vincente. Rydman, membro e fondatore della compagnia svedese di danza Bounce, vede nel successo dello show la conferma che la street dance può finalmente essere considerata uno stile di danza a tutti gli effetti, in grado di attirare e soddisfare un pubblico sempre più vasto.
Team creativo
Fredrik Rydman - Ideazione e Coreografia
Fredrik Rydman e Lehna Edwall - Scene
Daniel ”Mr Puppet” Blomqvist - Graffiti painting
Linus Fellbom e Emma Westerberg - Luci
Lehna Edwall - Costumi
Grafala, Andreas Skärberg, Johan Andersson e Mathias Erixon - Video proiezioni
Ballerini
Maria Andersson, Stefan Puxon, Joshua Kinsella, Lizzie Gough, Fredrik ”KAOS” Wentzel, Rim Shawki, Lisa Arnold, Kevin Foo, Eva Gardfors, Martin Jonsson, Kristina Kjellsson, Raineir Del Valle, Victor Mengarelli.
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Musica, cabaret e impegno sociale. A un anno dalla scomparsa Il Comune di Milano ricorda Enzo Jannacci con “Ciao Enzo”, una serie di eventi e iniziative a lui dedicati.
Tra queste la cerimonia ufficiale di intitolazione della Casa dell’Accoglienza di Viale Ortles 69 a Enzo Jannacci, accompagnata da “Se me lo dicevi prima”, un pomeriggio di festa all’interno della struttura aperto a tutti e gratuito, organizzato con la direzione artistica di Smemoranda dall’Assessorato alle Politiche sociali.
Il giardino della Casa dell'Accoglienza ospiterà un palco sul quale si alterneranno, tra le 14 e le 18, quaranta tra cantanti, attori, comici, disegnatori e registi per portare il proprio personale omaggio a Jannacci. Durante il pomeriggio, aperto anche ai più piccoli, ci saranno animazione, gelati, pop corn e zucchero filato, e si svolgerà un raccolta benefica di giocattoli da regalare ai bimbi ospiti delle case famiglia e delle comunità per i minori. Sarà in esposizione anche la mostra a fumetti "La mia gente" dedicata ai personaggi delle canzoni jannacciane interpretati dai più noti fumettisti italiani, nata in collaborazione con Scarp de’ tenis, il giornale di strada non profit che offre opportunità di lavoro e reinserimento ai senza dimora.
Gli organizzatori invitano i partecipanti a venire con i scarp de' tenis.
Presentazione evento di Nico, Gino e Michele con ringraziamento al Comune di Milano, agli artisti che non hanno potuto essere presenti e varie (invitano sul palco le emittenti: Radio Deejay con Andrea e Radio Popolare con Claudio Agostoni).
Conduzione affidata ai Boiler (Federico Basso, Gianni Cinelli e Davide Paniate) che nel corso del pomeriggio, in momenti diversi, inviteranno sul palco artisti e ospiti.
Prima parte
- Cochi Ponzoni con Paolo Belli e microband
- Vinicio Capossela
- Paolo Rossi
- Flavio Oreglio con Stefano Covri
- Enrico Bertolino
- Bebo Storti e Renato Sarti
- TekaP
- Ale&Franz
- Paolo Belli e microband
- Gianluca De Angelis con Silvio
- Davide Zilli
- Fabio Treves e Mauro Pagani con Alex Kid Gariazzo alla chitarra
Gli assessori Pierfrancesco Majorino e Filippo Del Corno con il Vicesindaco Ada Lucia De Cesaris e Paolo Jannacci per la cerimonia ufficiale.
Seconda parte
- Eugenio Finardi
- Folco Orselli
- Mario Lavezzi con Lorenzo Vizzini
- Marina Viola
- Ricky Gianco
- Diego Abatantuono
- Roberta Carrieri
- Bove e Limardi
- Oliviero Malaspina con Fabio Gallesi
Gran finale
tutti gli artisti accompagnati dai TekaP canteranno la versione tradizionale di El purtava i scarp del tenis
Durante tutto lo spettacolo saranno presenti suI palco i disegnatori Fabiano Ambu e Sergio Gerasi, due delle firme della mostra a fumetti “La mia gente”, che accompagneranno lo show disegnando dal vivo.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was published by the Dulwich Picture Gallery.
David Hockney
David Hockney, who was born on the 9th. July 1937, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer.
He is an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960's, and is considered to be one of the most influential British artists of the 20th. and 21st. centuries.
Hockney has owned homes and studios in Bridlington and London, as well as two residences in California, where he has lived intermittently since 1964: one in the Hollywood Hills, and one in Malibu.
He has an office and stores his archives on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California.
On the 15th. November 2018, Hockney's 1972 work Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold at Christie's auction house in NYC for $90 million (£70 million), becoming the most expensive artwork by a living artist sold at auction.
It broke the previous record which was set by the 2013 sale of Jeff Koons' Balloon Dog (Orange) for $58.4 million. Hockney held the record until the 15th. May 2019 when Koons reclaimed the honour by selling his Rabbit for more than $91 million at Christie's in New York.
David Hockney - The Early Years
David Hockney was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, the fourth of five children of Kenneth Hockney who was an accountant's clerk who later ran his own accountancy business, and who had been a conscientious objector in the Second World War.
David's mother Laura (née Thompson) was a devout Methodist and strict vegetarian.
He was educated at Wellington Primary School, Bradford Grammar School, Bradford College of Art, and the Royal College of Art in London, where he met R. B. Kitaj and Frank Bowling.
At the Royal College of Art, Hockney featured – alongside Peter Blake – in the exhibition New Contemporaries, which announced the arrival of British Pop art. He was associated with the movement, although his early works display expressionist elements which are similar to some of Francis Bacon's works.
When the RCA said it would not let him graduate if he did not complete an assignment of a life drawing of a live model in 1962, Hockney painted Life Painting for a Diploma in protest.
David refused to write an essay required for the final examination, and said that he should be assessed solely on his artworks. Recognising his talent and growing reputation, the RCA changed its regulations and awarded him a diploma.
David Hockney's Career
After leaving the RCA, David taught at Maidstone College of Art for a short time. He taught at the University of Iowa in 1964.
Later in 1964, Hockney moved to Los Angeles, where he was inspired to make a series of paintings of swimming pools in the comparatively new acrylic medium using vibrant colours.
He also taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1965 before teaching at UCLA from 1966 to 1967, and then at UCB in 1967.
David lived at various times in Los Angeles, London, and Paris from the late 1960's to 1970's. In 1974 he began a decade-long personal relationship with Gregory Evans who moved with him to the US in 1976 and as of 2019 remains a business partner.
In 1978 David rented a home in the Hollywood Hills; he later bought and expanded the house to include his studio. He also owned a 1,643-square-foot beach house at 21039 on the PCH in Malibu, which he sold in 1999 for about $1.5 million.
In the 1990's, Hockney returned more often to Yorkshire, usually every three months, to visit his mother who died in 1999.
Until 1997, David rarely stayed for more than two weeks, when his friend Jonathan Silver who was terminally ill, encouraged him to capture the local surroundings. At first he did this with paintings based on memory, some from his boyhood.
In 1998, he completed his painting of the Yorkshire landmark, Garrowby Hill. Hockney returned to Yorkshire for increasingly longer stays, and by 2003 was painting the countryside en plein air in both oils and watercolour.
David set up residence and a studio in a converted bed and breakfast, in the seaside town of Bridlington, about 75 mi (121 km) from where he was born. The oil paintings he produced after 2005 were influenced by his intensive studies in watercolour, a series titled Midsummer: East Yorkshire (2003–2004).
He created paintings made of multiple smaller canvases — two to fifty — placed together. To help him visualise work at that scale, he used digital photographic reproductions to study the day's work.
In spring 2020 he stayed at La Grande Cour, a farmhouse and studio in Normandy, during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Since that date he has settled full-time in Normandy.
David Hockney's Work
Hockney has experimented with painting, drawing, printmaking, watercolours, photography, and many other media including a fax machine, paper pulp, computer applications and iPad drawing programs.
The subject matter of interest ranges from still lifes to landscapes, portraits of friends, his dogs, and stage designs for the Royal Court Theatre, Glyndebourne, and the Metropolitan Opera in NYC.
-- Portraits
Hockney repeatedly returned to painting portraits throughout his career. From 1968, and for the next few years, he painted portraits and double portraits of friends, lovers, and relatives just under life-size in a realistic style that adroitly captured the likenesses of his subjects.
Hockney has repeatedly been drawn to the same subjects – his family, employees, artists Mo McDermott and Maurice Payne, various writers he has known, fashion designers Celia Birtwell and Ossie Clark (Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy, 1970–71), curator Henry Geldzahler, art dealer Nicholas Wilder, George Lawson and his ballet dancer lover, Wayne Sleep, and also his romantic interests throughout the years, including Peter Schlesinger and Gregory Evans.
Perhaps more than all of these, Hockney has turned to his own figure year after year, creating over 300 self-portraits.
From 1999 to 2001 Hockney used a camera lucida for his research into art history as well as his own work in the studio. He created over 200 drawings of friends, family, and himself using this antique lens-based device.
In 2016, the Royal Academy exhibited Hockney's series entitled 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life which traveled to Ca' Pesaro in Venice and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 2017, and to the LA County Museum of Art in 2018.
Hockney calls the paintings started in 2013 "twenty-hour exposures," because each sitting took six to seven hours on three consecutive days.
-- Printmaking
Hockney experimented with printmaking as early as a lithograph Self-Portrait in 1954 (see above), and worked in etchings during his time at RCA.
In 1965, the print workshop Gemini G.E.L. approached him to create a series of lithographs with a Los Angeles theme. Hockney responded by creating The Hollywood Collection, a series of lithographs recreating the art collection of a Hollywood star, each piece depicting an imagined work of art within a frame.
Hockney went on to produce many other portfolios with Gemini G.E.L. including Friends, The Weather Series, and Some New Prints.
During the 1960's David produced several series of prints that he thought of as 'graphic tales', including A Rake's Progress (1961–63) after Hogarth, Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C. P. Cavafy (1966) and Illustrations for Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm (1969).
In 1973 Hockney began a fruitful collaboration with Aldo Crommelynck, Picasso's preferred printer. In his atelier, he adopted Crommelynck's trademark sugar lift, as well as a system of the master's own devising of imposing a wooden frame onto the plate to ensure colour separation.
Their early work together included Artist and Model (1973–74) and Contrejour in the French Style (1974).
In 1976–77 Hockney created The Blue Guitar, a suite of 20 etchings, each utilising Crommelynck's techniques and filled with references to Picasso. The frontispiece to the suite mentions Hockney's dual inspiration:
"The Blue Guitar: Etchings By David Hockney
Who Was Inspired By Wallace Stevens Who
Was Inspired By Pablo Picasso".
The etchings refer to themes in a poem by Wallace Stevens, The Man with the Blue Guitar, which was published by Petersburg Press in October 1977. That year, Petersburg also published a book in which the images were accompanied by the poem's text.
In the summer of 1978, David Hockney stayed for six weeks with his friend the printer Ken Tyler at Tyler's studio in New York. Tyler invited Hockney to try a new technique with liquid paper. The process is painting with the paper itself, so the artist had to do it himself by hand.
Each image becomes a unique work between printmaking and painting. In six weeks, Hockney created a total of 29 artworks with a series of 17 sunflowers and swimming pools. Many of the works are very similar, differentiated by changes in colour choice and application of the colour. Some are solely coloured using paper pulp, while some use spray paint to achieve certain details.
Some of Hockney's other print portfolios include Home Made Prints (1986), Recent Etchings (1998) and Moving Focus (1984–1986), which contains lithographs related to A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlan.
A retrospective of David's prints, including 'computer drawings' printed on fax machines and inkjet printers, was exhibited at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London from February – May 2014 and Bowes Museum, County Durham from June – September 2014, with an accompanying publication, Hockney, Printmaker, by Richard Lloyd.
-- Photocollages
In the early 1980's, Hockney began to produce photo collages— which, in his early explorations within his personal photo albums, he referred to as "joiners" — first using Polaroid prints and subsequently 35mm, commercially processed colour prints.
Using Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject, Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image. Because the photographs are taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the result is work that has an affinity with Cubism, one of Hockney's major aims — discussing the way human vision works.
Some pieces are landscapes, such as Pearblossom Highway #2, others are portraits including Kasmin 1982; and My Mother, Bolton Abbey, 1982.
Creation of the "joiners" occurred accidentally. He noticed in the late 1960's that photographers were using cameras with wide-angle lenses. He did not like these photographs because they looked somewhat distorted.
While working on a painting of a living room and terrace in Los Angeles, he took Polaroid shots of the living room and glued them together, not intending for them to be a composition on their own. On looking at the final composition, he realised it created a narrative, as if the viewer moved through the room.
He began to work more with photography after this discovery, stopping painting for a while to pursue this new technique exclusively.
However over time, he discovered what he could not capture with a lens, saying:
"Photography seems to be rather good at
portraiture, or can be. But, it can't tell you
about space, which is the essence of
landscape. For me anyway.
Even Ansel Adams can't quite prepare you
for what Yosemite looks like when you go
through that tunnel and you come out the
other side."
(Ansel Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist).
Frustrated with the limitations of photography and its 'one-eyed' approach, he returned to painting.
-- Other Technology
In December 1985 Hockney used the Quantel Paintbox, a computer program that allowed the artist to sketch directly onto the screen. The resulting work was featured in a BBC series that profiled several artists.
In 1999 – 2001, David's sister, Margaret, began experimenting with digital photography, scanning and computer printing, particularly making images of flowers scanning a small Japanese vase and fresh flowers.
In 2003, she was experimenting with Photoshop, scanning summer flowers and building up images in layers which Margaret printed out on an A3 printer. In 2004, David went to stay with Margaret, and she helped him scan his sketchbook of Yorkshire landscapes, and David soon began using a Wacom pad and pen directly into Photoshop.
Since 2009, Hockney has painted hundreds of portraits, still lifes and landscapes using the Brushes iPhone and iPad application, often sending them to his friends.
In 2010 and 2011, Hockney visited Yosemite National Park in order to draw its landscape on his iPad. David used an iPad in designing a stained glass window at Westminster Abbey which celebrated the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Unveiled in September 2018, the Queen's Window is located in the north transept of the Abbey and features a hawthorn blossom scene which is set in Yorkshire.
From 2010 to 2014, Hockney created multi-camera movies using three to eighteen cameras to record a single scene. He filmed the landscape of Yorkshire in various seasons, jugglers and dancers, and his own exhibitions within the de Young Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts.
His earlier photo collages influenced his shift to another medium, digital photography. He combined hundreds of photographs to create multi-viewpoint "photographic drawings" of groups of his friends in 2014.
Hockney picked the process back up in 2017, this time using the more advanced Agisoft PhotoScan photogrammetric software which allowed him to stitch together and rearrange thousands of photos.
The resulting images were printed out as massive photomurals, and were exhibited at Pace Gallery and LACMA in 2018.
-- Plein Air Landscapes
In June 2007, Hockney's largest painting, Bigger Trees Near Warter or Peinture sur le Motif pour le Nouvel Age Post-Photographique, which measures 15 by 40 feet (4.6 by 12.2 m), was hung in the Royal Academy's largest gallery in its annual Summer Exhibition.
This work is a monumental-scale view of a coppice in Hockney's native Yorkshire, between Bridlington and York. It was painted on 50 individual canvases, mostly working in situ, over five weeks the previous winter.
In 2008, he donated it to Tate in London, saying:
"I thought if I'm going to give something to the
Tate I want to give them something really good.
It's going to be here for a while. I don't want to
give things I'm not too proud of... I thought this
was a good painting because it's of England...
it seems like a good thing to do."
The painting was the subject of a BBC1 Imagine film documentary by Bruno Wollheim called David Hockney: A Bigger Picture (2009) which followed Hockney as he worked outdoors over the preceding two years.
-- Theatre Works
Hockney's first stage designs were for Ubu Roi at London's Royal Court Theatre in 1966, Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1975, and The Magic Flute for Glyndebourne in 1978.
In 1980, he agreed to design sets and costumes for a 20th.-century French triple bill at the Metropolitan Opera House with the title Parade.
The works were Parade, a ballet with music by Erik Satie; Les Mamelles de Tirésias, an opera with libretto by Guillaume Apollinaire, and L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, an opera with libretto by Colette.
The re-imagined set of L'Enfant et les Sortilèges from the 1983 exhibition Hockney Paints the Stage is a permanent installation at the Spalding House branch of the Honolulu Museum of Art.
David designed sets for another triple bill of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, Le Rossignol, and Oedipus Rex for the Metropolitan Opera in 1981, as well as Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde for the Los Angeles Music Center Opera in 1987.
David also created sets for Puccini's Turandot in 1991 at the Chicago Lyric Opera, and Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten in 1992 at the Royal Opera House in London.
In 1994, he designed costumes and scenery for twelve opera arias for the TV broadcast of Plácido Domingo's Operalia in Mexico City.
Technical advances allowed him to become increasingly complex in model-making. At his studio he had a proscenium opening 6 feet (1.8 m) by 4 feet (1.2 m) in which he built sets in 1:8 scale.
He also used a computerised setup that let him punch in and program lighting cues at will and synchronise them to a soundtrack of the music.
In 2017, Hockney was awarded the San Francisco Opera Medal on the occasion of the revival and restoration of his production for Turandot.
The majority of David's theatre works and stage design studies are found in the collection of The David Hockney Foundation.
Exhibitions of David Hockney's Work
David Hockney has been featured in over 400 solo exhibitions and over 500 group exhibitions.
He had his first one-man show at Kasmin Limited when he was 26 in 1963, and by 1970 the Whitechapel Gallery in London had organised the first of several major retrospectives, which subsequently travelled to three European institutions.
LACMA also hosted a retrospective exhibition in 1988 which travelled to the Met, New York, and the Tate, London. In 2004, he was included in the cross-generational Whitney Biennial, where his portraits appeared in a gallery with those of a younger artist he had inspired, Elizabeth Peyton.
In October 2006, the National Portrait Gallery in London organised one of the largest ever displays of Hockney's portraiture work, including 150 paintings, drawings, prints, sketchbooks, and photocollages from over five decades.
The collection ranged from his earliest self-portraits to work he completed in 2005. Hockney assisted in displaying the works and the exhibition, which ran until January 2007, was one of the gallery's most successful.
In 2009, "David Hockney: Just Nature" attracted some 100,000 visitors at the Kunsthalle Würth in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany.
From January to April 2012, the Royal Academy presented A Bigger Picture, which included more than 150 works, many of which took up entire walls in the gallery's brightly lit rooms.
The exhibition is dedicated to landscapes, especially trees and tree tunnels of his native Yorkshire. Works included oil paintings, watercolours, and drawings created on an iPad and printed on paper. Hockney said, in a 2012 interview:
"It's about big things. You can make
paintings bigger. We're also making
photographs bigger, videos bigger,
all to do with drawing."
The exhibition drew more than 600,000 visitors in under 3 months. The exhibition moved to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain from May to September, and from there to the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany, between October 2012 and February 2013.
From October 2013 to January 2014, David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition was presented at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
The largest solo exhibition Hockney has had, with 397 works of art in more than 18,000 square feet, was curated by Gregory Evans, and included the only public showing of The Great Wall, developed during research for Secret Knowledge, and works from 1999 to 2013 in a variety of media from camera lucida drawings to watercolours, oil paintings, and digital works.
From February to May 2017 David Hockney was presented at the Tate Britain, becoming the most-visited exhibition in the gallery's history. The exhibition marked Hockney's 80th. year and gathered together an extensive selection of David Hockney's most famous works celebrating his achievements in painting, drawing, print, photography and video across six decades.
The show then travelled to Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The wildly popular retrospective landed among the top ten ticketed exhibitions in London and Paris for 2017, with over 4,000 visitors per day at the Tate, and over 5,000 visitors per day in Paris.
After the blockbuster exhibitions in 2017 of the works of decades past, Hockney went on to display his newest paintings on hexagonal canvases and mural-size 3D photographic drawings at Pace Gallery in 2018.
He revisited paintings of Garrowby Hill, the Grand Canyon, and Nichols Canyon Road, this time painting them on hexagonal canvases to enhance aspects of reverse perspective.
In 2019, his early work featured in his native Yorkshire at The Hepworth Wakefield.
In April–June 2022 an exhibition "Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction" was held at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and at the city's Heong Gallery.
In 2023 the Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) presented "David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed, Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation."
The exhibition is the largest retrospective print exhibition of Hockney's career, with more than 100 colourful prints, collages and photographic and iPad drawings, in a variety of media, spanning six decades of the artist's career.
David Hockney's Personal Life
Hockney came out as gay when he was 23, while studying at the Royal College of Art in London. Great Britain decriminalised homosexual acts seven years later in the Sexual Offences Act 1967.
Hockney has explored the nature of gay love in his work, such in as the painting We Two Boys Together Clinging (1961), named after a poem by Walt Whitman.
In 1963 he painted two men together in the painting Domestic Scene, Los Angeles, one showering while the other washes his back.
In the summer of 1966, while teaching at UCLA, he met Peter Schlesinger, an art student who posed for paintings and drawings, and with whom he became romantically involved.
Another of Hockney's romantic partners who was the subject of his work was Gregory Evans; the two met in 1971 and began a relationship in 1974. While no longer romantically involved, they still work together, with Evans managing the David Hockney Studio.
Hockney's current partner is longtime companion Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima. Also known as JP, he also works with Hockney in his studio as his chief assistant.
In March 2013, Hockney's 23-year-old assistant, Dominic Elliott, died as a result of drinking drain cleaner at Hockney's Bridlington studio; he had earlier taken both drugs and alcohol.
Hockney's partner drove Elliott to Scarborough General Hospital where he later died. The inquest returned a verdict of death by misadventure. In November 2015 Hockney sold his house in Bridlington, thereby ending his connections with the town.
Next he moved to Normandy, and now lives near the village of Beuvron-en-Auge. He holds a California Medical Marijuana Verification Card, which enables him to buy cannabis for medical purposes.
David has used hearing aids since 1979, but realised he was going deaf long before then. As of 2018, he has been keeping fit by spending half an hour in the swimming pool every morning.
Hockney has synaesthetic associations between sound, colour and shape.
David Hockney Collections
Many of Hockney's works are housed in the 1853 Gallery at Salts Mill in Saltaire, near his hometown of Bradford. Another large group of works are held by The David Hockney Foundation. His work is in numerous public and private collections worldwide, including:
Honolulu Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Institute of Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
National Portrait Gallery, London
Tate, U.K.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Turku, Finland
Mumok, Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA
Official Recognition for David Hockney
In 1967, Hockney's painting Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool won the John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
In 1983, the Hamburg-based Alfred Toepfer Foundation awarded Hockney its annual Shakespeare Prize in recognition of his life's work.
David was offered a knighthood in 1990 but declined it, before later accepting an Order of Merit.
He was awarded The Royal Photographic Society's Progress medal in 1988, and the Special 150th. Anniversary Medal and an Honorary Fellowship in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography in 2003.
David was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1997, and awarded The Cultural Award from the German Society for Photography (DGPh). He is a Royal Academician.
In January 2012, David was appointed to the Order of Merit, an honour restricted to 24 members at any one time for their contributions to the arts and sciences.
He was a Distinguished Honoree of the National Arts Association, LA, in 1991, and received the First Annual Award of Achievement from the Archives of American Art, LA, in 1993.
In 2003, Hockney was awarded the Lorenzo de' Medici Lifetime Career Award of the Florence Biennale, Italy.
Commissioned by The Other Art Fair, a November 2011 poll of 1,000 British painters and sculptors declared him Britain's most influential artist of all time.
David is an honorary member of the Printmakers Council.
David Hockney and Sgt. Pepper
In 2012, Hockney was among the British cultural icons selected by the artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life that he most admires.
To see the original album cover and to read about how it was developed, please search for the tag 56BLA53
David Hockney and the Art Market
On the 21st. June 2006, Hockney's painting The Splash sold for £2.6 million.
David's A Bigger Grand Canyon, a series of 60 canvases that combined to produce one enormous picture, was bought by the National Gallery of Australia for $4.6 million.
Beverly Hills Housewife (1966–67), a 12-foot-long acrylic that depicts the collector Betty Freeman standing by her pool in a long hot-pink dress, sold for $7.9 million at Christie's in New York in 2008, the top lot of the sale and a record price for a Hockney.
This was topped in 2016 when his Woldgate Woods landscape made £9.4 million at auction.
The record was broken again in 2018 with the sale of Piscine de Medianoche (Paper Pool 30) for $11.74 million
The Splash was offered for auction again on the 11th. February 2020, with an estimate of £20 – 30 million and sold, to an unknown buyer, for £23.1 million.
In 2018 Sotheby's sold Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica for $28.5 million.
On the 15th. November 2018, David Hockney's 1972 painting Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold at Christie's for $90.3 million, surpassing the previous auction record for a living artist of $58.4 million, held by Jeff Koons for one of his Balloon Dog sculptures. David had originally sold the painting for $20,000 in 1972.
The Hockney–Falco Thesis
The Hockney–Falco thesis is a theory of art history, advanced by David Hockney and physicist Charles M. Falco.
They argue that advances in realism and accuracy in the history of Western art since the Renaissance were primarily the result of optical instruments such as the camera obscura, camera lucida, and curved mirrors, rather than solely due to the development of artistic technique and skill.
Nineteenth-century artists' use of photography has been well documented.
In a 2001 book, Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters, Hockney analyzed the work of the Old Masters, and argued that the level of accuracy represented in their work is impossible to create by "eyeballing it".
Since then, Hockney and Falco have produced a number of publications on positive evidence of the use of optical aids, and the historical plausibility of such methods.
In the 2001 television programme and book Secret Knowledge, which was revised in 2006, Hockney suggested that the Old Masters used lens techniques that projected the image of the subject onto the surface of the painting.
Hockney argued that this technique migrated gradually from Northern Europe to Italy, and is the reason for the photographic style of painting seen in the Renaissance and later periods of art.
The hypothesis has led to a variety of conferences and heated discussions.
David Hockney in Public Life
Like his father, Hockney was a conscientious objector, and worked as a medical orderly in hospitals during his National Service, 1957–1959.
David was a founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 1979.
He was on the advisory board of the political magazine Standpoint; he contributed original sketches for its launch edition in June 2008, as well as agreeing to allow Standpoint to publish his previous views and pictures over the years.
David is a staunch pro-tobacco campaigner. In 2005 he fought to stop the ban on smoking in pubs and restaurants.
At the Labour Party conference he held up a card saying:
"DEATH awaits you all
even if you do smoke".
He was invited to guest-edit BBC Radio's Today programme on the 29th. December 2009 in which he aired his views on the subject.
In October 2010, he and a hundred other artists signed an open letter to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Jeremy Hunt, protesting against cutbacks in the arts.
In 2013 David wrote a foreword and provided illustrations for a book by John Staddon, Unlucky Strike.
David Hockney In Popular Culture
In 1966, while working on a series of etchings based on love poems by the Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy, Hockney starred in a documentary by filmmaker James Scott, entitled Love's Presentation.
He was the subject of Jack Hazan's 1974 biopic, A Bigger Splash, named after Hockney's 1967 pool painting of the same name.
Hockney was commissioned to design the cover and pages for the December 1985 issue of the French edition of Vogue. Consistent with his interest in cubism and admiration for Pablo Picasso, Hockney chose to paint Celia Birtwell (who appears in several of his works) from different views for the cover, as if the eye had scanned her face diagonally.
Hockney was inducted into Vanity Fair's International Best-Dressed Hall of Fame in 1986.
In 2005, Burberry creative director Christopher Bailey centred his entire spring/summer menswear collection around the artist.
Hockney was also the inspiration for artist Billy Pappas in the documentary film Waiting for Hockney (2008), which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2011, British GQ named him one of the 50 Most Stylish Men in Great Britain.
In 2012, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, a close friend, named a checked jacket after Hockney.
David Hockney: A Rake's Progress (2012) is a biography of Hockney covering the years 1937–1975, by writer/photographer Christopher Simon Sykes.
In 2012, Hockney featured in BBC Radio 4's list of The New Elizabethans to mark the diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. A panel of seven academics, journalists and historians named Hockney among the group of people in the UK:
"... whose actions during the reign of Elizabeth II
have had a significant impact on lives in these
islands and given the age its character".
In March 2013, David was listed as one of the Fifty Best-Dressed Over-50's by The Guardian.
The 2015 Luca Guadagnino's film A Bigger Splash was named after Hockney's painting.
In 2022, he was portrayed by Laurence Fuller in the 7th. episode of the 1st. season of Minx.
In BoJack Horseman, a caricature of Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) hangs on the wall of the title character's home office. In this version, horses replace the two human figures of the original.
The David Hockney Foundation
The David Hockney Foundation — both the UK-registered charity and the US private operating foundation — was created by the artist in 2008.
In 2012, Hockney, worth an estimated $55.2 million (approx. £36.1 m), transferred paintings valued at $124.2 million (approx. £81.5 m) to the David Hockney Foundation, and gave an additional $1.2 million (approx. £0.79 m) in cash to help fund the foundation's operations.
The foundation's mission is to advance appreciation and understanding of visual art and culture through the exhibition, preservation, and publication of David Hockney's work.
Richard Benefield, who organised David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition in 2013–2014 at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, became the first executive director in January 2017.
The foundation owns over 8,000 works – paintings, drawings, watercolours, complete editioned prints, stage design, multi-camera movies, and other media.
They also hold 203 sketchbooks and Hockney's personal photo albums from 1961 to 1990.
The foundation manages various loans to museums and exhibitions around the world.
These include Happy Birthday, Mr. Hockney! at the Getty celebrating his 80th. birthday, and the retrospective exhibitions of 2017–2018 at the Metropolitan Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, and Tate Britain.
Books by David Hockney
David Hockney's publications include:
— (1971). 72 Drawings. London: Jonathan Cape.
— (1976). David Hockney. London: Thames & Hudson.
— (1977). Blue Guitar: Etchings by David Hockney Who Was Inspired by Wallace Stevens Who Was Inspired by Pablo Picasso. New York: Petersburg Press.
— (1978). Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink. New York: Petersburg Press.
— (1979). Stangos, Nikos (ed.). Pictures by David Hockney. London: Thames & Hudson.
— (1980). Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink. London: Tate Gallery.
— (1981). Looking at Pictures in a Book at the National Gallery (The artist's eye). London: National Gallery.
— (1982). Photographs. New York: Petersburg Press.
— (1983). Hockney's Photographs. London: Arts Council of Great Britain.
— Stangos, Nikos (1985). Martha's Vineyard and other places: My Third Sketchbook from the Summer of 1982. London: Thames and Hudson.
— (1987). David Hockney: Faces 1966–1984. London: Thames & Hudson.
— Stangos, Nikos (1989). That's the Way I See It. London: Thames and Hudson.
— Spender, Stephen (1991). Hockney's Alphabet. London: Random House.
— (1993). David Hockney: Some Very New Paintings. William Hardie (Introduction). Glasgow: William Hardie Gallery.
— (1994). Off the Wall: A Collection of David Hockney's Posters 1987–94. Brian Baggott. Pavilion Books.
— (1995). David Hockney: Poster Art. Chronicle Books.
— (1999). Picasso. Galerie Lelong.
— (1999). Une éducation artistique. Galerie Lelong.
— (2001). Hockney's Pictures. London: Thames & Hudson.
— (2006). Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the lost techniques of the Old Masters (Expanded ed.). Thames & Hudson; Viking Studio.
— (2008). Hockney on Art: Conversations with Paul Joyce. Paul Joyce. New York: Little, Brown and Company.
— (2011). David Hockney's Dog Days. London: Thames & Hudson.
— (2011). A Yorkshire Sketchbook. London: Royal Academy of Arts.
— (2012). David Hockney: A Bigger Picture. London: Thames & Hudson.
— (2013). David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Del Monico with Prestel.
— (2016). A History of Pictures. Martin Gayford. London: Thames & Hudson.
— (2021). Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy. Martin Gayford. London: Thames & Hudson.
— (2022). David Hockney: Moving Focus. Texts by Wayne Sleep et al. Lucerne, London: Kunstmuseum Luzern, Tate Publishing.
-- A Bigger Book
In October 2016 Taschen published David Hockney: A Bigger Book, costing £1,750 (£3,500 with an added loose print).
David curated the selection of more than 60 years of his work reproduced within 498 pages. The book, weighing 78 lbs, had gone through 19 proof stages.
The book came with an (optional) substantial wooden lectern. He unveiled the book at the Frankfurt Book Fair where he was the keynote speaker at the opening press conference.
The Postcard
A Kings Series postcard that was published by G. R. Thompson of Llandudno.
The Pier Pavilion Theatre to the left of the Grand Hotel burnt down in 1994.
The card was posted in Llandudno using a ½d. stamp on Friday the 16th. August 1907. It was sent to:
Miss Louie Dearlove,
Walton Lodge,
Boston Spa,
Yorks.
The brief pencilled message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Having a good
time.
A. G. L."
Boston Spa
Boston Spa is a village in the Leeds Metropolitan District in West Yorkshire. In 1744, John Shires established it as a spa town when he discovered sulphur springs in the magnesian limestone. Spa baths were built to allow visitors to take the waters.
By 1819, Boston Spa had a population of more than 600, and several inns and other houses offering accommodation had been built.
However Boston Spa declined when Harrogate became more popular as a spa town.
The Boston Spa hoard, a Romano-British coin hoard dating to the mid second-century AD was found in 1848. It comprised a grey ware vessel and 172 silver denarii.
Llandudno
Llandudno is a seaside resort in Conwy County Borough, Wales, located on the Creuddyn peninsula, which protrudes into the Irish Sea. The town's name is derived from its patron saint, Saint Tudno.
Llandudno is the largest seaside resort in Wales, and as early as 1861 was being called 'the Queen of the Welsh Watering Places' (a phrase later also used in connection with Tenby and Aberystwyth; the word 'resort' came a little later).
History of Llandudno
The town of Llandudno developed from Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements over many hundreds of years on the slopes of the limestone headland, known to seafarers as the Great Orme and to landsmen as the Creuddyn Peninsula.
The origins in recorded history are with the Manor of Gogarth conveyed by King Edward I to Annan, Bishop of Bangor in 1284.
The Great Orme
Mostly owned by Mostyn Estates, the Great Orme is home to several large herds of wild Kashmiri goats originally descended from a pair given by Queen Victoria to Lord Mostyn.
The summit of the Great Orme stands at 679 feet (207 m). The Summit Hotel, now a tourist attraction, was once the home of world middleweight champion boxer Randolph Turpin.
The limestone headland is a haven for flora and fauna, with some rare species such as peregrine falcons and a species of wild cotoneaster (cambricus) which can only be found on the Great Orme.
The sheer limestone cliffs provide ideal nesting conditions for a wide variety of sea birds, including cormorants, shags, guillemots, razorbills, puffins, kittiwakes, fulmars and numerous gulls.
There are several attractions including the Great Orme Tramway and the Llandudno Cable Car that takes tourists to the summit. The Great Orme also has the longest toboggan run in Britain at 750m.
The Development of Llandudno
By 1847 the town had grown to a thousand people, served by the new church of St. George, built in 1840. The great majority of the men worked in the copper mines, with others employed in fishing and subsistence agriculture.
In 1848, Owen Williams, an architect and surveyor from Liverpool, presented Lord Mostyn with plans to develop the marshlands behind Llandudno Bay as a holiday resort. These were enthusiastically pursued by Lord Mostyn.
The influence of the Mostyn Estate and its agents over the years was paramount in the development of Llandudno, especially after the appointment of George Felton as surveyor and architect in 1857.
Between 1857 and 1877 much of central Llandudno was developed under Felton's supervision. Felton also undertook architectural design work, including the design and execution of the Holy Trinity Church in Mostyn Street.
The Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Electric Railway operated an electric tramway service between Llandudno and Rhos-on-Sea from 1907, this being extended to Colwyn Bay in 1908. The service closed in 1956.
Llandudno Attractions
The Beach and The Parade
A beach of sand, shingle and rock curves two miles between the headlands of the Great Orme and the Little Orme.
For most of the length of Llandudno's North Shore there is a wide curving Victorian promenade. The road, collectively known as The Parade, has a different name for each block, and it is on these parades and crescents that many of Llandudno's hotels are built.
Llandudno Pier
The pier is on the North Shore. Built in 1878, it is a Grade II listed building.
The pier was extended in 1884 in a landward direction along the side of what was the Baths Hotel (where the Grand Hotel now stands) to provide a new entrance with the Llandudno Pier Pavilion Theatre, thus increasing the pier's length to 2,295 feet (700 m); it is the longest pier in Wales.
Attractions on the pier include a bar, a cafe, amusement arcades, children's fairground rides and an assortment of shops & kiosks.
In the summer, Professor Codman's Punch and Judy show (established in 1860) can be found on the promenade near the entrance to the pier.
The Happy Valley
The Happy Valley, a former quarry, was the gift of Lord Mostyn to the town in celebration of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. The area was landscaped and developed as gardens, two miniature golf courses, a putting green, a popular open-air theatre and extensive lawns.
Ceremonies connected with the Welsh National Eisteddfod were held there in 1896, and again in 1963.
In June 1969, the Great Orme Cabin Lift, a modern alternative to the tramway, was opened with its base station adjacent to the open-air theatre. The distance to the summit is just over 1 mile (1.6 km), and the four-seater cabins travel at 6 miles per hour (9.7 km/h) on a continuous steel cable over 2 miles (3.2 km) long.
It is the longest single-stage cabin lift in Great Britain, and the longest span between pylons is over 1,000 feet (300 m).
The popularity of the 'Happy Valley Entertainers' open-air theatre having declined, the theatre closed in 1985. Likewise the two miniature golf courses closed, and were converted in 1987 to create a 280-metre (920 ft) artificial ski slope and toboggan run. The gardens were extensively restored as part of the resort's millennium celebrations, and remain a major attraction.
Marine Drive
The first route round the perimeter of the Great Orme was a footpath constructed in 1858 by Reginald Cust, a trustee of the Mostyn Estate. In 1872 the Great Orme's Head Marine Drive Co. Ltd. was formed to turn the path into a carriage road.
Following bankruptcy, a second company completed the road in 1878. The contractors for the scheme were Messrs Hughes, Morris, Davies, a consortium led by Richard Hughes of Madoc Street, Llandudno.
The road was bought by Llandudno Urban District Council in 1897. The 4 mile (6.4 km) one-way drive starts at the foot of the Happy Valley. After about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) a side road leads to St. Tudno's Church, the Great Orme Bronze Age Copper Mine and the summit of the Great Orme.
Continuing on the Marine Drive the Great Orme Lighthouse (now a small hotel) is passed, and, shortly afterwards on the right, the Rest and Be Thankful Cafe and information centre.
Below the Marine Drive at its western end is the site of the wartime Coast Artillery School (1940–1945), now a scheduled ancient monument.
The West Shore
The West Shore is a quiet beach on the estuary of the River Conwy. It was here at Pen Morfa that Alice Liddell (of Alice in Wonderland fame) spent the long summer holidays of her childhood from 1862 to 1871.
There are a few hotels and quiet residential streets. The West Shore is linked to the North Shore by Gloddaeth Avenue and Gloddaeth Street, a wide dual carriageway.
Mostyn Street
Running behind the promenade is Mostyn Street, leading to Mostyn Broadway and then Mostyn Avenue. These are the main shopping streets of Llandudno. Mostyn Street accommodates the high street shops, the major high street banks and building societies, two churches, amusement arcades and the town's public library.
The last is the starting point for the Town Trail, a planned walk that facilitates viewing Llandudno in a historical perspective.
Victorian Extravaganza
Every year in May bank holiday weekend, Llandudno has a three-day Victorian Carnival, and Mostyn Street becomes a funfair.
Madoc Street and Gloddaeth Street and the Promenade become part of the route each day for a mid-day carnival parade. Also the Bodafon Farm fields become the location of a Festival of Transport for the weekend.
Venue Cymru
The North Wales Theatre, Arena and Conference Centre, built in 1994, and extended in 2006 and renamed "Venue Cymru", is located near the centre of the promenade on Penrhyn Crescent.
It is noted for its productions of opera, orchestral concerts, ballet, musical theatre, drama, circus, ice shows and pantomimes.
The Llandudno Lifeboat
Until 2017, Llandudno was unique within the United Kingdom in that its lifeboat station was located inland, allowing it to launch with equal facility from either the West Shore or the North Shore as needed.
In 2017, a new lifeboat station was completed, and new, high-speed, offshore and inshore lifeboats, and a modern launching system, were acquired. This station is close to the paddling pool on North Shore.
Llandudno's active volunteer crews are called out more than ever with the rapidly increasing numbers of small pleasure craft sailing in coastal waters. The Llandudno Lifeboat is normally on display on the promenade every Sunday and bank holiday Monday from May until October.
The Ancient Parish Church
The ancient parish church dedicated to Saint Tudno stands in a hollow near the northern point of the Great Orme, and is two miles (3 km) from the present town.
It was established as an oratory by Tudno, a 6th.-century monk, but the present church dates from the 12th. century and it is still used on summer Sunday mornings.
Llandudno's Links with Mametz and Wormhout
-- Mametz
The 1st. (North Wales) Brigade was headquartered in Llandudno in December 1914, and included a battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, which had been raised and trained in Llandudno.
Skirting the Fricourt salient, the British 7th. Division took the village of Mametz in the afternoon of the 1st. July 1916. However Mametz Wood to the north-east of the village held great German resistance. This blocked all Allied progress in a northeasterly direction.
After eight days of fierce combat, with heavy losses, did the 38th. Welsh Division capture the wood on the 12th. July 1916.
A monument to the 38th. Welsh Division was inaugurated on the 11th. July 1987. The monument takes the form of a plinth surmounted by a red dragon, the emblem of Wales. With its wings held aloft, it carries in its claws pieces of barbed wire, attesting to the fierce nature of the fighting.
The hostilities brought about the total destruction of Mametz village by shelling. After the war, the people of Llandudno (including returning survivors) contributed generously to the fund for the reconstruction of the village of Mametz.
-- Wormhout
Llandudno is twinned with the Flemish town of Wormhout which is 10 miles (16 km) from Dunkirk. It was near there that many members of the Llandudno-based 69th. Territorial Regiment were ambushed and taken prisoner.
The Site Mémoire de la Plaine au Bois near Wormhout commemorates the massacre of these prisoners on the 28th. May 1940. The men had been retreating towards Dunkirk ahead of the advancing Germans.
About 100 troops, having run out of ammunition, surrendered to the Germans, assuming that they would be taken prisoner according to the Geneva Convention.
However they were all imprisoned in a small barn, and the SS threw stick-grenades into the building, killing many POW's.
However the grenades failed to kill everyone, largely due to the bravery of two British NCO's, Stanley Moore and Augustus Jennings, who hurled themselves on top of the grenades, using their bodies to shield their comrades from the blast.
In order to finish off the remaining soldiers, the SS fired into the barn with rifles and automatic weapons. A few survived to tell the tale, but no-one was ever indicted for war crimes because of insufficient evidence.
A replica of the barn can be seen at the site of the massacre.
Llandudno's Cultural Connections
Matthew Arnold gives a vivid and lengthy description of 1860's Llandudno - and of the ancient tales of Taliesin and Maelgwn Gwynedd that are associated with the local landscape - in the first sections of the preface to 'On the Study of Celtic Literature' (1867).
Llandudno is also used as a location for dramatic scenes in the stage play and film 'Hindle Wakes' by Stanley Houghton, and the 1911 novel, 'The Card', by Arnold Bennett, and its subsequent film version.
Elisabeth of Wied, the Queen Consort of Romania and also known as writer Carmen Sylva, stayed in Llandudno for five weeks in 1890.
On leaving, she described Wales as "A beautiful haven of peace". Translated into Welsh as "Hardd, hafan, hedd", it became the town's official motto.
Other famous people with links to Llandudno include the Victorian statesman John Bright and multi-capped Welsh international footballers Neville Southall, Neil Eardley, Chris Maxwell and Joey Jones.
Australian ex-Prime Minister Billy Hughes attended school in Llandudno. Gordon Borrie QC (Baron Borrie), Director General of the Office of Fair Trading from 1976 to 1992, was educated at the town's John Bright Grammar School when he lived there as a wartime evacuee.
The international art gallery Oriel Mostyn is in Vaughan Street next to the post office. It was built in 1901 to house the art collection of Lady Augusta Mostyn. It was requisitioned in 1914 for use as an army drill hall, and later became a warehouse, before being returned to use as an art gallery in 1979. Following a major revamp the gallery was renamed simply 'Mostyn' in 2010.
Llandudno has its own mini arts festival 'LLAWN' (Llandudno Arts Weekend). It is a mini festival that rediscovers and celebrates Llandudno’s past in rather a unique way; via art, architecture, artefact, sound, performance, and participation.
The festival takes place over three days of a weekend in late September, originally conceived as a way to promote what those in the hospitality sector refer to as the ‘shoulder season’, which means a lull in the tourist calendar.
In January 1984 Brookside character Petra Taylor (Alexandra Pigg) committed suicide in Llandudno.
In 1997, the English cookery programme "Two Fat Ladies" with Jennifer Patterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright filmed an episode in Llandudno.
Harry Frederick Whitchurch VC
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 16th. August 1907 marked the death of Harry Frederick Whitchurch.
Harry Frederick Whitchurch, who was born in Kensington, London on the 22nd. September 1866, was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Whitchurch was 28 years old, and a surgeon-captain in the Medical Service of the Indian Army during the Chitral Expedition of 1895 when, on the 3rd. March, the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. It was published in the London Gazette on the 16th. July 1895:
"During the sortie from Chitral Fort at the commencement of the siege, Surgeon-Captain Whitchurch went to
the assistance of Captain Baird, 24th. Bengal Infantry, who was mortally wounded, and brought him back to
the fort under a heavy fire from the enemy.
Captain Baird had only a small party of Gurkhas and men of the 4th Kashmir Rifles. He was wounded at a
distance of a mile and a half from the fort. When Surgeon-Captain Whitchurch proceeded to his rescue, the
enemy, in great strength, had broken through the fighting line.
Darkness had set in and Captain Baird, Surgeon-Captain Whitchurch, and the sepoys were completely isolated
from assistance. Captain Baird was placed in a dooly by Surgeon-Captain Whitchurch, and the party then
attempted to return to the fort.
The Gurkhas bravely clung to the dooly until three were killed and a fourth was severely wounded.
Surgeon-Captain Whitchurch then put Captain Baird upon his back and carried him some distance with heroic
courage and resolution. The little party kept diminishing in numbers, being fired at the whole way.
On one or two occasions Surgeon-Captain Whitchurch was obliged to charge walls, from behind which the
enemy kept up an incessant fire. At one place particularly the whole party was in imminent danger of being
cut up, having been surrounded by the enemy.
Surgeon-Captain Whitchurch gallantly rushed the position, and eventually succeeded in getting Captain Baird
and the sepoys into the fort. Nearly all the party were wounded, Captain Baird receiving two additional wounds
before reaching the fort."
Harry Whitchurch was invested with his Victoria Cross by Queen Victoria at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, on the 27th July 1895.
-- The Death of Harry Frederick Whitchurch
Harry later achieved the rank of Surgeon-Major, and died at the age of 40 in Dharmsala, Punjab, India from enteric fever. He was laid to rest in the churchyard of St. John in the Wilderness, Dharmsala.
Harry's VC forms part of the Lord Ashcroft collection in the Imperial War Museum, London.
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Mrs. Arthur S. Burden at Newport
1913 August 29 (date created or published later by Bain)
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows socialite and art collector Mrs. Arthur Scott Burden (1884-1966), formerly the Honorable Cynthia Burke Roche of London. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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By Elizabeth Edwards, and published in 2008 by Natula Publications (ISBN 9781897887714), this 18-page booklet has several colour pictures and a photograph of Cecil "Cis" Biles (1899-1981) - the last miller at Parsons' Mill - as well as telling the story of this much loved mill and many of its owners.
[Published on Dawn.com as a part of a media gallery]
Girl | March 30, 2011 | She came up to me quietly and asked if I would take her photo.
First published in Penguin in 1965.
Reprinted in 1967,1969,1970,1971 and 1972.
This reprint published in 1973.
The cover shows a detaiil of a painting by Paul Klee
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Opening-act dei The Darkness al Carroponte di Sesto San Giovanni a Milano, gli Hangarvain.
In apertura gli Hangarvain, con la loro ottima miscela personale di rock e blues. La giovane band vanta un curriculum e una fan base di tutto rispetto costruiti con decine di date tra Italia, UK ed Est Europa ed è in procinto di pubblicare il suo quarto album di cui saranno rivelati a breve maggiori dettagli.
Nati nel 2013 dalle ceneri di un progetto precedente, gli Hangarvain hanno iniziato a far parlare di sé a partire dal 2014 con l’esordio discografico Best Ride Horse (Red Cat Records). Nel giro di pochi anni, la rock band ha raggiunto un vasto pubblico con un’estensiva attività live in Italia ed Europa, ed altri due lavori in studio, l’Ep acustico Naked del 2015 ed il full lenght Freaks uscito nel 2016 per Volcano Records, che le ha permesso di guadagnare sostenitori ed una fanbase appassionata in tutta Europa. La band ha raccolto un successo repentino e piuttosto ampio superando con Freaks ben presto la fatidica soglia delle 1000 copie vendute grazie soprattutto al relativo #StayFreakStayFree Tour 2016, partito dalla Spagna e terminato in Est Europa dopo oltre sessanta concerti. Gli Hangarvain hanno diviso il palco tra gli altri con Gilby Clarke (Guns N’ Roses), Y&T, Fabio Lione (Angra), Hardcore Superstar, Skillet, The Darkness, Niterain, DGM, Pino Scotto, e sono stati special guest per tutto il tour italiano 2016 dei leggendari L.A. Guns.A dicembre 2016, dopo uno show in teatro a Napoli, la band ha sospeso completamente le sue attività per poi annunciare, a inizio 2018, il ritorno con un nuovo lavoro in studio.
Gli Hangarvain hanno pubblicato un nuovo album dal titolo “Roots and returns” uscito in tutto il Mondo il 25 maggio 2018 per Volcano Records e seguito da un tour in Italia ed Europa di oltre quaranta date.
Il quarto disco degli Hangarvain è atteso per ottobre 2019.
Sergio Toledo Mosca - lead vocals
Alessandro Liccardo - guitar and backing vocals
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 27th of July 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
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I Television, una delle più innovative band emerse dalla scena underground della New York della metà degli anni ’70, in grado di ideare un nuovo linguaggio chitarristico e di influenzare decine di band a venire, arrivano in Italia per riproporre in versione integrale quello che è considerato il loro indiscusso capolavoro, “Marquee Moon”.
La musica dei Television ha sempre seguito direzioni non convenzionali, gettando le fondamenta per molte band post-punk della fine degli anni ’70 e dell’inizio degli anni ‘80. I chitarristi Tom Verlaine e Richard Lloyd non si sono mai uniformati ai canoni tradizionali dell’improvvisazione nel rock, accantonando il blues in favore dell’energia grezza del garage, e aggiungendo complessi richiami al jazz nelle parti soliste.
I Television si formano a New York alla fine del 1973, dall’incontro del cantante / chitarrista Tom Verlaine con il batterista Billy Ficca, il bassista Richard Hell (in seguito sostituito da Fred Smith) e il chitarrista Richard Lloyd. La band inizia a esibirsi in un locale in Bowery Street: si tratta di un club destinato a entrare nella storia del rock, il leggendario CBGB, che presto sarebbe diventato un’importante venue per artisti punk e new wave, quali Patti Smith, Blondie, Ramones e Talking Heads. Dopo aver pubblicato il singolo autoprodotto “Little Johnny Jewel”, i Television attirano l’attenzione di alcune major e, nel 1977, dopo aver firmato con l’ Elektra Records, pubblicano il loro album di debutto, “Marquee Moon”. Il disco negli U.S.A. viene accolto con grande favore dalla critica, pur non riuscendo ad attrarre un grande pubblico; in UK, al contrario, arriva al n. 28 delle charts, e anticipa un tour sold out nei teatri. Il loro secondo album, “Adventure”, viene pubblicato nel 1978, ma alcuni mesi dopo il gruppo si scioglie improvvisamente.
Nel 1991, i Television si riformano, registrando un nuovo omonimo album per la Capitol Records. Da allora la band ha continuato a esibirsi sporadicamente, partecipando, tra gli altri, al Noise Pop Festival a Chicago, all’ATP in UK ed L.A. e a numerosi show in Europa, Giappone, Sud America. Nel 2007 Lloyd ha lasciato la band ed è stato sostituito da Jimmy Rip, già collaboratore di Tom Verlaine dall’inizio degli anni ’80.
La band è al lavoro con le registrazioni di un nuovo album. L’attuale line-up comprende Tom Verlaine (chitarra e voce principale), Jimmy Rip (chitarra e backing vocals), Fred Smith (basso e backing vocals), e Billy Ficca alla batteria.
Published in a National Geographic Traveler special supplement: "The Western Balkans: Land of Discovery"
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Ghali apre la performance di Martin Garrix per Milano Rocks, sabato 10 settembre 2022 all’Ippodromo Snai San Siro.
Fru di The Jackal ha il compito di presentare Ghali e con lui sul palco come ospiti ci sono Axell, Tedua, Digital Astro, Pyrex, Baby Gang e Charlie Charles.
Ghali Amdouni, alias Ghali, è un rapper italiano. Nato a Milano il 21 Maggio 1993 da genitori tunisini, ha sempre vissuto in Italia, nello specifico a Baggio, periferia milanese.
Ha iniziato ad avvicinarsi all'hip hop utilizzando lo pseudonimo Fobia, mutato successivamente in Ghali Foh. Nel 2011 ha fondato i Troupe D'Elite, gruppo nel quale erano presenti anche il rapper Er Nyah (ora conosciuto come Ernia), la cantante Maite e il produttore Fonzie (ora conosciuto come Fawzi).
Il 26 Gennaio 2018 Ghali ha pubblicato il suo singolo Cara Italia, brano cult che ha superato le 128milioni di visualizzazioni su YouTube, venendo certificato triplo disco di platino nel giro di un mese e restando stabilmente ai vertici delle classifiche di airplay del paese per settimane. Un successo straordinario che segna il coronamento di un percorso lungo 4 anni che porta Ghali alla ribalta come vero e proprio riferimento della musica italiana ed europea.
Gianluca Colucci, in arte Fru è un attore e comico italiano nato nel 1995. Fru è uno dei membri del gruppo comico The Jackal insieme a Simone Ruzzo, Ciro Priello, Fabio Balsamo, Claudia Napolitano e Aurora Leone.
Arrivato nel gruppo comico solamente nel 2016, undici anni dopo la fondazione della società di produzione The Jackal, Fru nel 2020 è entrato a far parte del cast della nuova serie italiana originale Netflix in collaborazione con i The Jackal, insieme a Fabio Balsamo, Generazione 56K e nel 2021 è uno dei comici in gara nel comedy show di Amazon, LOL: Chi ride è fuori e nel 2022 è in coppia con Aurora Leone nella nuova edizione di Pechino Express 2022 – La Rotta dei sultani.
Axell è nato in Senegal, ma a 12 anni si è trasferito a Torino nel quartiere Barriera di Milano. Parla francese e italiano, due lingue che si mischiano nelle sue canzoni e che gli danno un sapore internazionale, transalpino, ma unito alla fame, alla rabbia e a quel rap italiano che inevitabilmente ha assorbito nel quartiere torinese dove è cresciuto. Suona il pianoforte e la tromba, ama il rap, ma ascolta anche musica classica, la sua ultima canzone, Que Pasa, è stata condivisa anche dal calciatore interista Hachraf Hakimi. Le sue peculiarità artistiche hanno attirato l’attenzione di Ghali ed Axell ha firmato per Sto Records e ha pubblicato Que Pasa.
Tedua, pseudonimo di Mario Molinari (Genova, 21 febbraio 1994[2]), è un rapper italiano. Precedentemente noto come Incubo o Duate, è uno dei componenti di Wild Bandana, collettivo musicale genovese di cui fanno parte anche Izi, Vaz Tè, Guesan e Ill Rave.
Digital Astro, al secolo Rida Amaouch, è un artista classe 2000. Nasce ad Acireale da genitori marocchini e comincia ad avere contatti con la musica sin dalla tenera età avvicinandosi a diversi generi che lo porteranno a creare uno stile molto personale. Nel 2017 conosce il producer Sadturs che si rivelerà essere una figura chiave nel suo cammino e con il quale formerà la più classica delle coppie rapper-producer.
Nel 2020 viene notato proprio da Ghali che, intuendone le grandi potenzialità, decide di inserirlo nella cantera di Sto Records facendogli firmare il suo primo contratto. I suoi primi singoli ufficiali “Preghiera per il blocco” e “Tutto Passa” vengono fin da subito apprezzati dal pubblico che iniziano a conoscere il mondo di Digital Astro. Questo ruota attorno al racconto delle difficoltà che i ragazzi delle nuove generazioni devono affrontare.
Dark Pyrex, detto anche Principe Pyrex o Prynce, è il letterato della Dark Polo Gang. Il suo vero nome è Dylan Thomas Cerulli ed è nato nel 1994 da padre romano e madre afro-americana di New York.
Incontra Dark Side, Tony Effe e Wayne da adolescente a scuola. Inizia a rappare con loro per gioco, finché Sick Luke, figlio di Duke Montana, li convince a fare le cose sul serio confezionando i primi beat. Nasce così Dark Polo Gang, collettivo che inizialmente è addirittura un quintetto, insieme a un altro ragazzo romano, Bangerz.
Baby Gang, pseudonimo di Zaccaria Mouhib, è un rapper italiano di origini marocchine. Nasce a Lecco nel 2001 e a partire dagli undici anni passa gli anni tra carceri minorili e comunità educative.
Nel 2018 pubblica Street, il suo primo singolo, ma poco dopo viene arrestato e condannato alla detenzione nel carcere minorile Beccaria di Milano, dal quale esce grazie all’intervento di Don Claudio Burgio che lo porta nella propria comunità. Nel 2019 pubblica i singoli Fuck la Pula, Educazione e Cella 1. Ottiene un discreto successo nel 2020 grazie alla collaborazione con la 167 Gang nel singolo Baby Gang e Bimbi Soldato con Sacky. Dopo una lunga serie di singoli, nel 2021 pubblica prima EP1, progetto di 7 brani con le collaborazioni di Il Ghost, Omar, Neima Ezza, Rondodasosa e Escomar. Per fine agosto è previsto Delinquente, il suo primo disco ufficiale pubblicato per Warner Music Italy.
Charlie Charles, pseudonimo di Paolo Alberto Monachetti, è un produttore discografico e disc jockey italiano, ritenuto tra i principali esponenti della scena hip hop e trap italiana degli anni 2010.
Charlie Charles inizia la sua carriera ascoltando e producendo musica elettronica e techno, dedicandosi anche alla composizione di colonne sonore. Dopo diversi cambi di scuola, abbandonò le superiori per dedicarsi solo alla musica, creando a Seguro un proprio studio di registrazione. Intorno allo stesso periodo conosce il rapper Sfera Ebbasta, intraprendendo una collaborazione musicale culminata nel 2015 con l'album in studio XDVR. Il 2015 segna inoltre la collaborazione con Marracash per l'etichetta discografica indipendente Roccia Music, producendo vari brani e album con Ghali, Tedua, Izi, Gué Pequeno e la Dark Polo Gang, oltre a Sfera Ebbasta.
From Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Vol 13. Spring 2016.
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Group of officers of the 9th Rifle Brigade bathing in a stream behind the lines are (left to right, excluding the two obscured faces): Captain Arthur Mckinstry, wounded (date unknown), Second Lieutenant William Hesseltine, killed (August 21, 1916), Captain William Purvis, wounded September 15, 1916), Second Lieutenant Joseph Buckley, killed (December 23, 1917), Lieutenant Morris Heycock, wounded (August 22, 1916), (Two obscured faces behind him unknown), Captain Eric Parsons, killed (September 15, 1916), Second Lieutenant Sidney Smith (in background) killed (August 25, 1916) and Second Lieutenant Walter Elliott, killed (November 20, 1916).
This photo of Meacham Grove has been published in the Fall 2012 issue of the "Conservationist." It is a publication of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County.
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Al Forum, il ritorno della storica band di "Like Clockwork".
I Queens of the Stone Age (o anche QOTSA) sono una band alternative metal statunitense, nata nel 1996 in seguito allo scioglimento dei Kyuss, band cardine e vero fulcro attorno a cui è nato e si è sviluppato il cosiddetto stoner rock.
I Queens of the Stone Age erano stati originariamente formati con il nome Gamma Ray dal chitarrista Josh Homme, assieme al batterista Alfredo Hernandez. Lo stesso Homme ha descritto lo stile della band come robot rock, nome che vuole dare l'idea della continua ripetizione di riff che lo caratterizzano.
Josh Homme - voce, chitarra, basso
Jon Theodore - batteria
Troy Van Leeuwen - chitarra, basso, cori
Michael Shuman - basso, cori, sintetizzatore
Dean Fertita - tastiere, cori
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Al Forum, il ritorno della storica band di "Like Clockwork".
I Queens of the Stone Age (o anche QOTSA) sono una band alternative metal statunitense, nata nel 1996 in seguito allo scioglimento dei Kyuss, band cardine e vero fulcro attorno a cui è nato e si è sviluppato il cosiddetto stoner rock.
I Queens of the Stone Age erano stati originariamente formati con il nome Gamma Ray dal chitarrista Josh Homme, assieme al batterista Alfredo Hernandez. Lo stesso Homme ha descritto lo stile della band come robot rock, nome che vuole dare l'idea della continua ripetizione di riff che lo caratterizzano.
Josh Homme - voce, chitarra, basso
Jon Theodore - batteria
Troy Van Leeuwen - chitarra, basso, cori
Michael Shuman - basso, cori, sintetizzatore
Dean Fertita - tastiere, cori
The Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was published in Great Britain. It features the usual execrable poem that seems to be a mandatory feature of early greetings cards.
The card was posted in Manchester using a ½d. stamp on Thursday the 27th. July 1916. It was sent to:
Miss E. Hallam,
43, Oakfield Street,
Altrincham.
The pencilled message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"To wish you very many
Happy Returns of the
Day.
Love Phyllis."
The Battle of Delville Wood
So what else happened on the day that Phyllis posted the card to Elsie?
Well, on the 27th. July 1916, a massive artillery barrage by the British destroyed much of the German defenses in Delville Wood, with patrols describing:
"A horrible scene of chaos
and destruction".
However despite horrific losses, German forces recovered and launched a counter-assault on the eastern side of the wood.
-- 'At Delville'
'At Delville' is a poem written by Robert Ernest Vernède in 1916. He was Second Lieutenant in a battalion of The Rifle Brigade.
Robert was wounded during the Battle of the Somme, and was killed in action at Havrincourt on the 9th April 1917.
He is buried in Le Bucquière Communal Cemetery Extension. This poem was found among his belongings after his death.
'At Delville I lost three Sergeants
And never within my ken
Had one of them taken thought for his life
Or cover for aught but his men.
Not for two years of fighting
Through that devilish strain and noise;
Yet one of them called out as he died -
"I've been so ambitious, boys"...
And I thought to myself, "Ambitious!"
Did he mean that he longed for power?
But I knew that he'd never thought of himself
Save in his dying hour.
And one left a note for his mother,
Saying he gladly died
For England, and wished no better thing..
How she must weep with pride.
And one with never a word fell,
Talking's the one thing he'd shirk,
But I never knew him other than keen
For things like danger and work.
Those Sergeants I lost at Delville
On a night that was cruel and black,
They gave their lives for England's sake,
They will never come back.
What of the hundreds in whose hearts
Thoughts no less splendid burn?
I wonder what England will do for them
If ever they return?'
The Execution of Charles Fryatt
Also on that day, English civilian ferry captain Charles Fryatt was executed at Bruges, Belgium, after a German court-martial condemned him for attempting to ram a U-boat in 1915.
Keenan Wynn
The 27th. July 1916 also marked the birth in NYC of the American character actor Keenan Wynn.
Keenan is known for his character supporting roles in films such as Annie Get Your Gun and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.
His expressive face was his stock-in-trade; although he rarely carried the lead role, he had prominent billing in most of his film and television roles.
-- Keenan Wynn - The Early Years
Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn was the son of vaudeville comedian Ed Wynn and his wife, the former Hilda Keenan who was a minor actress. His father was Jewish and his mother was of Irish Catholic background.
He took his stage name from his maternal grandfather, Frank Keenan, one of the first Broadway actors to star in Hollywood.
During the height of his father's Broadway popularity, Keenan grew up in the lap of luxury, and was educated at St. John's Military Academy.
-- Keenan Wynn's Theatre and Radio Work
Wynn began his career as a stage actor. He appeared in several plays on Broadway, including Remember the Day (1935), Black Widow (1936), Hitch Your Wagon (1937), The Star Wagon (1938), One for the Money (1939), Two for the Show (1940), and The More the Merrier (1941).
Wynn starred in the radio show The Amazing Mr. Smith in 1941. He played the title role, a carefree young man who runs into trouble galore and becomes an involuntary detective.
-- Keenan Wynn's Film and Television Work
Wynn appeared in hundreds of films and television series between 1934 and 1986. He was a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player during the 1940's and 1950's.
He had a brief role as a belligerent, unsympathetic drunk in the wartime romance The Clock (1945). Arguably his most dynamic performance was a small role in The Hucksters (1948) with Clark Gable.
Keenan's early postwar credits include The Three Musketeers (1948), playing D'Artagnan's servant; Annie Get Your Gun (1950); Royal Wedding (1951); Kiss Me, Kate (1953); The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956); The Absent-Minded Professor (1961); The Americanization of Emily (1964) and Dr. Strangelove (1964).
The Wynns, father and son, both appeared in the original 1956 Playhouse 90 television production of Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight. Keenan had helped his father overcome professional collapse, a harrowing divorce, and a nervous breakdown to return to work a decade earlier, and he now helped convince Serling that the elder Wynn should play the wistful trainer.
Both Keenan and his father also appeared in a subsequent TV drama called The Man in the Funny Suit (1960), which detailed the problems they had experienced while working on that series. In it, the Wynns, Serling, and many of the cast and crew played themselves.
Keenan also featured in another Rod Serling production, a Twilight Zone episode entitled, "A World of His Own" (1960) as playwright Gregory West, who uniquely caused series creator Rod Serling to disappear.
In 1959 Wynn starred in S. J. Perelman's Hollywood satire, "Malice in Wonderland", broadcast on NBC's prestigious Sunday afternoon anthology series Omnibus.
He had a leading role in the third Beach Party movie, Bikini Beach (1964) as a scheming newspaper publisher who wants to banish the local young people. Later he played Hezakiah in the comedy film The Great Race (1965).
Wynn took a dramatic turn as Yost in the crime drama Point Blank (1967) with Lee Marvin.
Keenan was the voice of the Winter Warlock in Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970). He also appeared in several Disney films, including Snowball Express (1972), Herbie Rides Again (1974) and The Shaggy D.A. (1976).
He appeared as villainous businessman Alonzo Hawk in three Disney films – The Absent-Minded Professor, Son of Flubber, and Herbie Rides Again.
Keenan also appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's musical Finian's Rainbow (1968), Sergio Leone's epic western Once Upon a Time in the West (also 1968), and Robert Altman's Nashville (1975).
During this time, his guest television roles included Alias Smith and Jones (1971–1972), Emergency! (1975), Movin' On (1975) and The Bionic Woman (1978).
Wynn appeared in ten episodes of TV's Dallas during the 1979–1980 season, playing the role of former Ewing family partner-turned-enemy Digger Barnes.
Wynn was initially cast in Superman (1978) to play Perry White (the boss of Clark Kent and Lois Lane at the Daily Planet) in April 1977. However by June 1977 (production had moved to Pinewood Studios in England), Wynn collapsed from exhaustion and was rushed to a hospital. He was replaced by Jackie Cooper.
Keenan played Charles Picker Dobbs in a 1982 episode of The Love Boat. In 1983, he guest-starred in one of the last episodes of Taxi, and Quincy, M.E. In 1984. He also starred in the television film Call to Glory, which later became a weekly television series.
-- Keenan Wynn's Personal Life
Wynn was married to former stage actress Eve Lynn Abbott (1914–2004) until their divorce in 1947, whereupon Abbott married actor Van Johnson, one of the couple's closest friends.
Abbott contended that her marriage to Wynn was a happy one, but that her divorce and remarriage were engineered by MGM studio boss Louis B. Mayer, who refused to renew Wynn's contract unless Abbott divorced him and married Johnson, who was the subject of rumors that he was homosexual.
One son, the actor and writer Ned Wynn (born Edmond Keenan Wynn), wrote the autobiographical memoir We Will Always Live In Beverly Hills.
Keenan's other son, Tracy Keenan Wynn, is a screenwriter whose credits include The Longest Yard and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (both 1974).
His daughter Hilda was married to Paul Williams, and his granddaughter is the actress Jessica Keenan Wynn.
-- Keenan Wynn's Later Life and Death
Although his later years were marred by a severe case of tinnitus (a ringing in the ear that blocks out exterior sound), Keenan was able to continue acting until the very end. One of his last roles was as a regular on the short-lived television series The Last Precinct (1986).
In his later years, Wynn undertook a number of philanthropic endeavors, and supported several charity groups. He was a long-standing active member of the Westwood Sertoma service club, in West Los Angeles.
During his last years, Wynn suffered from pancreatic cancer, which caused his death at the age of 70 on the 14th. October 1986.
His ashes were interred in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park in The Great Mausoleum, Daffodil Corridor, Columbarium of the Dawn, in a niche alongside his father Ed Wynn, his daughter Emily (1960 – 1980), who died from lupus, and his aunt.
-- A Final Thought From Keenan Wynn
"My billing has always been "and",
or "with", or "including".
That's all right - let the stars take
the blame."
Rosemary Brown
Also born on that day, in London, was the British composer and spiritualist Rosemary Brown.
Rosemary claimed to have been able to channel the spirits of deceased composers such as Franz Liszt in order to produce new compositions.
Rosemary Isabel Brown (nee Dickeson) was an English composer, pianist and spirit medium who claimed that dead composers dictated new musical works to her.
Many other members of Brown's family were allegedly psychic, including her parents and grandparents.
She created a media sensation in the 1970's by presenting works purportedly dictated to her by Claude Debussy, Edvard Grieg, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Igor Stravinsky, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Concert pianists Peter Katin, Philip Gammon, Howard Shelley, Cristina Ortiz and John Lill have all performed her music.
An LP spoofing her work, Rosemary Brown Psyches Again! was issued in 1982 by Enharmonic Records.
Brown was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 drama, The Lambeth Waltz by Daniel Thurman, first broadcast in 2017.
-- Rosemary Brown - The Early Years
Rosemary Isabel Dickeson was born in London. She claimed to have been only seven years old when she was first introduced to the world of dead musicians.
She reported that a spirit with long white hair and a flowing black cassock appeared and told her he that was a composer, and that he would make her a famous musician one day.
She claimed that she did not know who he was until, about ten years later, she saw a picture of Franz Liszt.
Rosemary worked for the Post Office from the age of 15. In 1948 she acquired a second-hand upright piano, and took some lessons for three years. In 1952 she married Charles Brown, a government scientist. They had a son and a daughter before her husband died in 1961.
-- Communication With Deceased Musicians
In 1964 Liszt supposedly renewed contact, and Brown began transcribing original compositions that she said were dictated to her by great musicians of the past.
Brown transcribed pieces from Johannes Brahms, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Franz Schubert, Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Liszt.
These included:
-- A 40-page sonata that she attributed to Schubert
-- A Fantaisie-Impromptu in three movements that
she attributed to Chopin
-- 12 songs that she attributed to Schubert
-- 2 sonatas and 2 symphonies that she attributed to Beethoven.
Brown claimed that each composer had his own way of dictating to her:
-- Liszt controlled her hands for a few bars at a time, and then she wrote down the notes
-- Chopin told her the notes and pushed her hands on to the right keys
-- Schubert tried to sing his compositions
-- Beethoven and Bach simply dictated the notes.
Rosemary claimed that the composers spoke to her in English.
-- Rosemary Brown's Critical Reception
Brown's claims about spirit communication were disputed by sceptics. However, this opinion was not universal - there were a number of musicians and musicologists who supported her claims.
Humphrey Searle, who was an authority on Liszt, wrote in his autobiography Quadrille with a Raven, referring to Grubelei, a piece inspired by Liszt:
'It is certainly in keeping with Liszt's
experimental style, being mostly
written in single notes in each hand;
it is highly chromatic, and one hand
is written in 5/4 time against 3/2 in
the other.
The latter is not a thing that Liszt
ever did as far as I know, but it is
the sort of thing he might have done
as I said in my broadcast, which was
reproduced on this record sleeve
without my knowledge!
Since then Fiona and I have got to
know Rosemary well, and believe her
to be perfectly genuine. Even if the
pieces dictated to her by dead
composers are not masterpieces -
although some of them are very nice
works - she has had no technical
training in composition, and could not
possibly produce pastiches like, say,
those by Joseph Cooper in his TV
programme "Face the Music"."
Professor Ian Parrott was also a supporter, and wrote Rosemary Brown's obituary for the Guardian:
"Grübelei, partly dictated under the watchful
gaze of BBC reporter Peter Dorling and a
television studio crew, is undoubtedly a most
spectacular and unusual piece.
It has strong harmonies, cross-rhythms and
occasional instructions in French - a point
conferring authenticity, but difficult to fake."
The composer and Liszt specialist Humphrey Searle said:
"We must be grateful to Mrs Brown
for making it available to us."
After studying her compositions, many musicologists and psychologists came to the conclusion they were the work of Brown's own subconscious.
Leonard Zusne and Warren H. Jones in their book Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking (1989) noted that:
"Brown wrote hundreds of pieces of music
dictated by the various composers. They
were passable works, entirely in the style
of these composers, but appeared to be
simply reworkings of existing pieces."
Professor of psychology John Sloboda wrote that:
"Brown's music offers the most convincing
case of unconscious composition on a large
scale."
Psychologist Robert Kastenbaum analysed Brown's music compositions and came to doubt that they were dictated to Brown by spirits of well known composers. According to Kastenbaum:
"There are no striking themes, complex structures,
depths of feelings, or harmonic, tonal, or rhythmic
innovations.
During their days on earth all the composers not
only created distinguished music but also contributed
to the development of compositions for the keyboard.
One of the characteristics that made each of them so
remarkable was their unpredictability.
Their next composition might well open a new domain
in musical sensitivity or technique.
Alas, they have now all fallen into desuetude. Nothing
new shows up to enrich their post-mortem compositions,
and nothing surprises, except perhaps the lack of
surprises.
Kastenbaum suggested the composers were secondary personalities of Brown herself.
PhD student Erico Bonfim studied a particular sonata by Schubert produced by Brown and said:
"I chose to investigate a sonata attributed to Schubert
because Schubert has a very special and particular
way of dealing with sonata form.
What is very impressive, in this sonata I analysed,
we can see all the most important characteristics of
Schubert's treatment of sonata form.
So this is certainly not a superficial imitation.
So when the sceptics claimed that she was making
just a superficial imitation, something maybe
improvisatory and so on, I don't believe they were
accurate – at least regarding some of her better
pieces."
Rosemary Brown maintained that she had never had any musical training aside from a few piano lessons, though paranormal investigator Harry Edwards says:
"A perusal of newspaper reports about Ms. Brown
elicits contradictory information about her alleged
lack of musical education.
Originally she stated that she had had no musical
training; later she was reported to have had only
a couple of years of music lessons, and recently
admitted to belonging to a musical household
and being a competent musician and pianist."
According to the psychologist Andrew Neher:
"Brown loved music as a child, there was a piano
in her home while she was growing up, her mother
played the piano, and she herself took piano
lessons.
All of this, together with the enhanced skill often
displayed in altered states of consciousness,
seems sufficient to account for her musical
compositions."
Musicologist Denis Matthews described her music as "charming pastiches," and suggested that she was re-creating compositions.
Similarly Alan Rich, music critic of New York magazine, having heard a privately issued record of Brown's piano pieces, concluded that they were just sub-standard re-workings of some of their purported composers' better-known compositions.
-- Publications of Rosemary Brown
Rosemary Brown wrote three books:
-- Unfinished Symphonies: Voices from the Beyond, William Morrow (1971)
-- Immortals at My Elbow, Bachman & Turner (1974)
-- Look Beyond Today, Bantam Press (1986).
-- The Death of Rosemary Brown
Rosemary died at the age of 85 in London on the 16th. November 2001.
Cтатья с фотографиями Екатерины Мухиной в журнале "Счастливая Свадьба", 2011 год. Статья о путешествии в Грецию на Крит и Санторини с интервью от моей невесты.
Article in a russian wedding magazine "Happy wedding" in 2011, including my photos from the Santorini wedding I shot in sept, 2010
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A fascinating textbook on Outdoor Advertising - "its function in modern advertising and marketing" published in 1953 and claiming to be the first such volume published since Cyril Sheldon's 1916 "Billposting" that had been reissued in 1927. The book considers, in three sections, the practical production of advertising including the contractor, agent and designer; a second looking at application of planning and selection of advertising type and location including the impact of the then new planning laws and, finally, research into target audiences for various campaigns.
The book has numerous illustrations including a series of uncredited sketches showing aspects of advertising in the 'townscape' as well as various reproductions of poster artwork.
Cadbury's Bourn-Vita was the company's 'answer' to Ovaltine and Horlicks, a chocolate/cocoa based drink promoted as an aid to restful sleep. This page looks at how a continuing theme in press advertising can lead to a more minimalist approach due to product recognition. The sleepy mug and night hat was available in real life as a moulded earthenware mug and plastic 'cap' and indeed I still have an example. The main poster is by "Clynick".