(Daily Yomiuri) Rene Magritte, a Communist Party member
Tomoyuki Tanaka
i'm trying to remember how i was introduced to Magritte.
i think it was in my 5th, 6th, 7th grade art classes (in Japan).
how do American kids get introduced to Magritte, Picasso, etc in
school?
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http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/0407cu19.htm
...
BRUSSELS -- To celebrate the centennial of the birth of Rene
Magritte, .... , the Brussels Royal Museum of Fine Arts ...
The Magritte exhibition, which continues until June 28, is being
hailed as one of the biggest cultural events in Europe this
year. ...
Two Magritte paintings are on loan from the Toyota Municipal
Museum of Art in Toyoda, Aichi Prefecture. The Utsunomiya Museum
of Art, the Osaka City Museum of Modern Art and the Yokohama
Museum of Art have each lent one work to the exhibition.
The Belgian painter began his career as a wallpaper designer.
Even after he became established as an artist, Magritte
continued to design fashion advertisements and wine labels.
....
Magritte, a Communist Party member, said before his death in
1967: "My art is only valuable as far as it struggles against
bourgeois ideology."
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Steve Sundberg
Tomoyuki Tanaka (ez07...@dilbert.ucdavis.edu) wrote:
:
: i'm trying to remember how i was introduced to Magritte.
: i think it was in my 5th, 6th, 7th grade art classes (in Japan).
:
: how do American kids get introduced to Magritte, Picasso, etc in
: school?
We had a book of Picasso prints at home, so I must've been 'introduced' to
Picasso even before I entered grade school. :0 (I saw my first
Shakespeare performance in third grade, though, at the Guthrie Theater.)
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Jungkwon Chin
ez07...@dilbert.ucdavis.edu (Tomoyuki Tanaka) wrote:
>i'm trying to remember how i was introduced to Magritte.
>i think it was in my 5th, 6th, 7th grade art classes (in Japan).
>how do American kids get introduced to Magritte, Picasso, etc in
>school?
Ah, I remember how i was introduced to Magritte,
i think it was in my 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade at classes.
His early "jockey" series which can be characterized as a sort of
symbolism and surrealism,
and series of surrealist paintings which are based on the linguistic
permutation.
and following "human condition" series which have something to do with
phenomenology..
and 'le mot et le chose' series which has some affinity with
Wittgensteins philosophy...
and the final impressionist experiments which I didn't like much...
I remember I liked "human condition" series best...
What did you learn in your art class?
What did the teacher say?
How much is his tableau?
10 million Yen?
regards,
Jungkwon Chin
HippieChick
Jungkwon Chin wrote:
>
> ez07...@dilbert.ucdavis.edu (Tomoyuki Tanaka) wrote:
>
> >i'm trying to remember how i was introduced to Magritte.
> >i think it was in my 5th, 6th, 7th grade art classes (in Japan).
>
> >how do American kids get introduced to Magritte, Picasso, etc in
> >school?
>
> Ah, I remember how i was introduced to Magritte,
> i think it was in my 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade at classes.
> His early "jockey" series which can be characterized as a sort of
> symbolism and surrealism,
> and series of surrealist paintings which are based on the linguistic
> permutation.
> and following "human condition" series which have something to do with
> phenomenology..
> and 'le mot et le chose' series which has some affinity with
> Wittgensteins philosophy...
> and the final impressionist experiments which I didn't like much...
>
I wasn't introduced to Magritte (although I'd seen his paintings, I
didn't have a name) until I read GEB, actually. But I first thumbed
through GEB when I was 14 or so, so it's understandable. Out of
curiosity, did everyone read through GEB on the first shot? I know I
first just went through the dialogues...then I came back and tried to go
straight through it, giving up on the chapters right before
genetics...but then I put it in my bathroom and read it every time I was
there straight through on the third shot. Of course, since I was young
then, I kept coming back to it and renoticing things. In retrospect
they seem obvious, but it took me 2 readings to see the acrostic, 3
readings to notice the coppahs Silva and Gould, as well as the whole
point to Sloth Cannon. I would really like to have a copy of GEB with
the notes he made for the purposes of translation...it would be
interesting to see all the stuff I missed.
Tomoyuki Tanaka
what an amazing story.
i guess this is a huge news in Japan now.
he returned for a short visit.
a real story like this one gives some credibility to the "US
MIAs in Vietnam".
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http://nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/world/japan-pow-returns.html
April 12, 1998
After 53 Years, Soldier Goes Home to Japan
... after 53 years in Siberia waiting for the dusts of World War
II to settle, Meguro has finally been allowed to come home.
...
"When I saw those cherry blossoms again," Meguro said, speaking
in Russian because he has mostly forgotten his Japanese, "I
realized how much I am Japanese. I realized how happy I am to
come back to Japan."
...
"On the collective, people accepted me and were very kind," he
said. "I married, and my wife's family was very good to me."
...
et...@fkym.daiichi-net.or.jp
Tomoyuki Tanaka wrote:
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>
> what an amazing story.
> i guess this is a huge news in Japan now.
It rated inside page news for at least one day last
week. I didn't see it on TV. Even without speaking
Japanese for decades, I am unsure of how
someone can lose their native tongue.
> he returned for a short visit.
>
> a real story like this one gives some credibility to the "US
> MIAs in Vietnam".
I am glad to see you appear to have sympathy for
the plight of American MIAs. As with Mr. Meguro
(or abducted Japanese in N. Korea) it is believed
any GIs remaining in Asia have integrated by
now. Details are spotty, and the motives of those
with such information are questionable.
Eric Takabayashi
Fukuyama, Japan
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> http://nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/world/japan-pow-returns.html
>
> April 12, 1998
>
> After 53 Years, Soldier Goes Home to Japan
>
> ... after 53 years in Siberia waiting for the dusts of World War
> II to settle, Meguro has finally been allowed to come home.
> ...
>
> "When I saw those cherry blossoms again," Meguro said, speaking
> in Russian because he has mostly forgotten his Japanese, "I
> realized how much I am Japanese. I realized how happy I am to
> come back to Japan."
> ...
>
> "On the collective, people accepted me and were very kind," he
> said. "I married, and my wife's family was very good to me."
> ...
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