The Glamourous Life - Cheerfulness

Cheerfulness as a state of supreme well being and good spirits.

Today's quote is from tonight's CBC Ideas programme
-part 2 of

'the Pleasures of the Flesh' Gilbert Reid (the real spelling of his name)

'You cannot arrange for happiness. You CAN arrange for pleasure. I make many of these arrangements'

Catherine Deneuve
(not English)



jouissance- a keen and deep pleasure.

Now this can be arranged by many things. Beauty through any of the senses, can do this.


Photos

Cheerfulness (6"x6" acrylic mixed medium on canvas hardboard. $119.00 available!)

Ice on the fire wood






Today's cheerful music courtesy of the vinyl and CD collection of E.Schmidt who didn't even know that cheerfuness was today's image. LOVE it.

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Virtuoso Mandolins

vivaldi scarlatti

old Italian court dances.

AND

Romeo and Juliet

Prokofiev

-the dance of the knights-

The Glamourous Life -Joy

Joy a State of supreme well being and good spirits.

Tonight, propitiously, CBC radio has Gilbert Reed talking on Ideas, the topic -The Pleasures of the Flesh- !!!
With the soundscapes of old movies, translations of language, he talks of the pleasure of just flirting, the eye contact, open appreciation, just the pleasure of being alive, breathing, following the curve of the street to meet the next moment...

Where is he? Paris.

That is the joy that burbles and trills along as a color of the day.

Osho said...
"Ecstasy is our very nature, not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable. That's why you look so tired, because misery is real hard work; to maintain it is really difficult, because you are doing something against the nature. You are going upstream – that's what misery is."


Today's Artwork of interest...

Woman Bitten by a Snake 1847 Marble statue

Auguste Clésinger (1814-1883)
Musee d'Orsay.


The model was Apollonie Sabatier. Courtesans.

Photos
La Joie/Joy

and where it came from

The Glamourous Life - Joyfulness

A little bit more on 'A State of Supreme Well-being and Good Spirits’

Joyfulness

This series is on the canvas covered hardboard that is recommended by the 'painting a day' discipline.
6"x 6" is a good little size, hmm?

I love the invitation of space that comes of moving from one size surface to another. How different requests are made from one.

How sometimes, strangely, it is easier to get more detail into a small painting than a large one.


I hope you are enjoying the free form of this series. I am!

Tomorrow is the beginning of the pre grand opening of Art Gallery of Alberta. Lucky me, I have a ticket! I will give my review, hot off the press, when I get back from the tour!




Today's music
Arcangelo Corelli- 1653-1713 composer of Baroque music


Corelli -Concerti Grossi op.6
Ensemble 415
Chiara Banchini
Jesper Christensen

This is in continuation of the idea introduced in yesterday's music -the lute or theorbo being used as a bass in the music.

Excerpt from the notes
"This production of Corelli's Opus 6 is the result of the converging of a shared passion and research that gave birth to the joint project of creating a large orchesta similar to the one Corelli conducted in Rome."


And
Tom Van der Geld and Children at Play
Album -Patience
The vibraphone! Jazz

The sound is great as it is a vinyl record that arrived in the post a few days ago from England. The album cover has the cut mark on the bottom indicating it was a demo copy. A bit of provenance. So many details in the world!


credits:
LoML,Elgar Schmidt and his astounding collection and knowledge of music which he so generously shares with me... and you!