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Syria

01 Sunday Sep 2013

Posted by michelinewalker in History, The Middle East

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Alex Colville, chemical weapons, congenital malfaesance, playing dead, provocation, Syria, The Middle East

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The Battle of Ager Sanguinis, 1119
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Syria: the Use of Chemical Weapons

As reported by Secretary of State John Kerry, on 21 August 2013, Syria “gassed to death” 1,429 of its citizens including 426 children. It has therefore made it imperative for the entire world to stand up and oppose the death of innocent people.

President Obama is absolutely right: “We cannot accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a terrible scale.”

provocation

However, I now suspect a motivation on the part of Syria to provoke the West in general and the United States in particular into entering endless hostilities, as though the Crusades had not ended. This, I believe, was provocation: see agent provocateur.   Under such circumstances, the US needs to consider “playing dead.” Something has to be done, but it would be my opinion that the United States’ best option is to be part of an international mission and to address, with partners, the use of chemical weapons.[i] They kill quickly and may harm an already ailing planet.

9/11

Please remember the brutal attacks of 9/11. There had to be a response on the part of the United States.  However, these attacks were perpetrated by a global terrorist organisation: Al-Qaeda, led by Osama bin Laden. These attacks were not perpetrated by a nation. Therefore, President Bush’s best recourse was to track down Osama bin Laden, thereby

  •  sparing the United States and the world two wars
  •  while avoiding the near collapse of an economy that has gone global. He chose war and he spent trillions.

The Current Conflict

In the eyes of some US citizens, barging in to avenge the misdeeds of the Middle East might seem the “American” thing to do. Such a belief is rooted, at least in part, in the antiquated Manifest Destiny. But the truth is that the US does not have to solve the problems of the World. Moreover, I doubt that it can enter a sovereign nation. The Syrians killed 1,429 of their own people and it may well be that they were trying to provoke the West, especially the United States. However, although I suspect provocation, there was no attack on the United States. The temptation to enter Syria and punish the barbarians who killed 1,429 of their own citizens, using chemical weapons to boot, must be enormous. Yet no nation can elbow its way into another nation to teach it a lesson? The Syrians acted criminally and should face the International Court of Justice.

Negotiations

Moreover, may I suggest that one does not help those who will not help themselves.  It is the duty of the embattled countries of the Middle East to put an end to their own misery. These factious nations are perfectly capable of finding their way to the negotiating table, if there is anyone left. For instance, the United States has long tried to broker a deal that would be acceptable to both the Israeli and the Palestinians.  However, whatever deal has been proposed has also been opposed. So why try to resolve conflicts the belligerents themselves want to perpetuate? In the case of Syria, why should any nation punish the malfaesants who killed their own people? They may have wanted to infuriate the West, but in doing so they committed a horrible crime. They must face the consequences of this crime, but need it be war? There’s a tribunal.

Conclusion

Too intense a degree of engagement on the part of the United States in the conflicts of the Middle East would harm Americans and I doubt it would help the Middle East. I am not saying that the US should contemplate isolationism, but it would be my opinion and conviction that it should 1) continue to pull out of the Middle East, where it remains the “ugly American,” 2) let congenital belligerents face an indignant world and, 3) when a nation has acted criminally, make sure the concerned individuals are brought to trial.

I very much fear another war, the evil that followed 9/11. I’m so glad the White House is still Barack’s house.

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Sources:

[i] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/obamas-bid-to-congress-on-syria-part-of-push-for-global-backing-un/article14065095/
[ii] http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/World/ID/2403722367/
 

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Alex Colville: Artist and Car & The Skater

25 Thursday Jul 2013

Posted by michelinewalker in Art

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Abstract art, Alex Colville, Apartment, Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Personal space, Wolfville, World War II

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Artist and Car, by Alex Colville, 2008
Dog and Priest, 1978 (below)
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Dear Readers,

Matters have not improved. I cannot even use the “Add Media” feature. I copied and pasted the pictures in this message. “Add Media” doesn’t work, nor do the “tags.” However, WordPress’ Happiness Engineers will fix the problem. I will also contact the computer company. Just in case. In the meantime, I feel totally abandoned. I miss reading your posts and writing my blog is now part of my daily routine.  Life is quite the challenge.

The weather is glorious. I own one ninth of a small apartment building and my personal space is a large apartment facing various backyards. My neighbours have lovely gardens and I can see mature trees. Moreover, on this side of the building, one does not hear cars.

I have inserted videos featuring Alex Colville speaking about his art. In my earlier posts, I did not mention that Mr Colville was very meticulously in his work. He drew lines, a grid, and then made his sketch. The results were magnificent, but his perfect renditions have sometimes been interpreted as realism. There is no doubt that the “Skater” is a perfect drawing and that it is a representational painting, i.e. it’s not an abstract painting. Nor is it a realist painting. We see a skater, or rather, the back of a skater, but why did he chose to paint the skater in reverse? At times, he paints a mundus inversus, a world in reverse. Colville’s “realism” is therefore deceptive, but his compositions are stunning.

Video dated 24 July 2013

The video dated 24 July 2013, the video I inserted in my last post, is like an exhibition. It includes a few artworks that depict World War II. Please click on the following link to view it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUkokSs3JR4.

Love to all of you,

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Alex Colville Speaks (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)

Dog and Priest — painting by Alex Colville

Skater — painting by Alex Colville

Skater, by Alex Colville, 1964

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The Ocean Limited, by Alexander Colville

24 Wednesday Jul 2013

Posted by michelinewalker in Art, Sharing

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The Ocean Limited, by Alex Colville, 1962

This is a very short post. My post on Alexander Colville keeps returning to an unpublished and unedited version. It does so when I try to log out.

I will therefore send you this note and see, once again, what the Happiness Engineers can do. I have tried to edit my settings, as they suggested, but it hasn’t worked. I may have to switch themes.

At the moment, I have no access to my reader and mail is piling up, as I am spending a lot of time trying to return WordPress to its pristine condition. Moreover, I am fighting an episode of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which means lying down in bed.

The Ocean Limited

During the years I spent teaching at St Francis Xavier University, I used to take the “Ocean Limited” to go and visit with my family. At one point, it travelled to Sherbrooke, Quebec. It now has a different route.

On Alex Colville, by Christopher Pratt (born 9 December 1935)
I had included a video of this video, but it has been removed.  However, I am providing the appropriate link.  The video can be seen.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2013/07/18/nl-christopher-pratt-alex-colville-719.html

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Alexander Colville (1920 – 2013)

22 Monday Jul 2013

Posted by michelinewalker in Art

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Dog and Fireplace, 1950 (graphite and gouache on watercolour board)

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Alexander Colville (1920 – 2013)

Artist Alex Colville PC CC ONS (24 August 1920 – 16 July 2013) passed away last week, a month shy of his 93rd birthday. I wrote two posts featuring artist Alex Colville’s 1954 “Horse and Train” (glazed tempera). When Colville created “Horse and Train,” he was inspired by Anglo-African poet and satirist Roy Campbell (2 October 1901 – 22 April 1957) who wrote (see Alexander Colville, Wikipedia):

Against a regiment I oppose a brain
And a dark horse against an armored train.
Roy Campbell
 

I also wrote a post on Alexander Colville, the artist: Artist Alexander Colville. At the top of this post, I showed an exceptional painting of a hound, “Hound in Field” (casein tempera [cocaine a tempera]), created in 1958 by Alexander Colville, and wrote comments on this painting. At the bottom of that post, I featured the painting shown at the top of the current post: “Dog and Fireplace.” That particular post included biographical notes. These require editing, after which I will insert them in this post.

Biographical Notes

Alex Colville was born in Toronto, in 1920. In 1929, the Colville family had moved to Amherst, Nova Scotia, after living in St. Catharines, Ontario for nearly three years. In Amherst, Colville took art lessons from Sarah Hart, a member of the Fine Arts faculty at Mount Allison University. These were extension classes organized by Stanley Royle. It is at this point that Stanley Royle, Head of the Fine Arts Department at Mount Allison, discovered Colville’s artistic potential and encouraged him to study the fine arts, which led him to enter Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick

Mount Allison University is one of Canada‘s finest small universities and, for a long time, the finest. Colville studied at Mount Allison from 1938 to 1942, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. That year, 1942, Alex Colville married Rhoda Wright, whom he had met in an art class where there were only ten students. That same year, 1942, Colville enlisted in the Canadian Army, in the infantry. His first son was born on 15 July 1944 when Colville was overseas and, since May 1944, had been working as official war artist, one of 31 artists chosen by the Canadian Government. Among other assignments, he was tasked with “depicting the horrors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.” (See Alexander Colville, Wikipedia)

Colville was posted to Ottawa until completion of his duties as war artist. He then returned to New Brunswick and taught art at Mount Allison University from 1946 until 1963. As of 1963, he devoted his life to his paintings. In 1965 (see Colville House), he painted “To Prince Edward Island,” perhaps his best-known painting. In the early 1970s, the Colville family moved to Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Rhoda Wright’s hometown. They settled in the house Rhoda’s father had built and where Rhoda was born. For ten years, beginning in 1981, Alex Colville was Chancellor of Acadia University, in Wolfville. He lost one of his sons on 22 February 2012 and, a few months later, on 29 December 2012, his wife Rhoda passed away. Colville died of a heart condition on 16 July 2013. He is survived by two sons and a daughter.

For further information and to see several paintings by Colville, visit Colville House and the Colville Website.

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Horse and Train, 1954 (glazed tempera)
 
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Hound in Field, 1958 (casein tempera [cocaine a tempera])

Comments

Incongruity

Alexander Colville was and will remain an internationally renowned master of his art, but I would prefer not to pigeon hole him.  However, I will note a degree of incongruity in his art. In “To Prince Edward Island,” the woman looks at the person(s) looking at the painting. I am reminded of Denis Diderot‘s (5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784) Paradoxe sur le comédien (written between 1770 and 1778; first published posthumously in 1830). Who is the spectator? Is it the actor (comédien)?

In “Dog and Child,” 1952 and “Woman and Terrier,” 1963, the artist focusses on the dogs. This is particularly true of “Woman and Terrier.” That painting seems a re-ordering of human beings and animals, not to say a re-ordering of the great chain of beings. To a certain extent, it would be legitimate to compare a painting such as “Horse and Train” (1954) to Édouard Manet‘s “Déjeuner sur l’herbe” (“The Luncheon on the Grass”). Both artworks feature elements that do not seem to belong. The horse does not seem to belong, except symbolically. Colville’s “Woman with Gun” and his “Pacific” also give expression to incongruity. Guns do not belong in those “settings,” except symbolically.

But I would prefer not to associate Colville with a School.  All I can say is that Colville’s art is a perfectly crafted and controlled expression of a personal unconscious and personal world view, which probably reflects his experience as official war artist. What Alex Colville saw and depicted at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was an instance of inconceivable inhumanity. Could this explain the juxtaposition in “Woman with Gun” and in “Pacific,” of a human being and a gun, a gun that does not seem to belong? It may and it may not.

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Woman with Gun, 1987 (acrylic polymer emulsion on hardboard)
Pacific, 1967 (acrylic polymer emulsion on hard board)
 

The Brain

Yet, “Horse and Train” may also depict the superiority of the human brain and human imagination. The human brain created trains and cars, horse-power, and the human brain created technologies of all kinds. Artificial intelligence is the product of the human brain. So, the human brain and the brain of animals are superior to all the technologies currently available.

Conclusion

Yes there is incongruity in Alex Colville’s paintings.  However not only does his art depict the human condition in its broadest acceptation, but Colville’s paintings also portray very ordinary moments, moments that do not usually constitute a successful subject matter for a painting, unless one is Alexander Colville. The “Refrigerator,” 1977, is an example of an ordinary moment transformed into a work of art. We have just seen Japonisme, ukiyo-e prints rendered in flat colours. There is a degree of that flatness, but a textured flatness, in the manner Colville applies his colours. From both the point of view of composition and that of colouring, his “Hound in Field” is an example of Japonism, down to the diagonal line. This, he may not, and need not, have realized.

Alexander Colville’s art is contained just as his life was contained and stable. There is considerable drama to his “Horse and Train,” to his “Woman with Gun” and “Pacific.” And there is drama emanating from the juxtaposition of a large dark dog and a pale naked child. However, that dog is domesticated. That dog is the dog depicted at the top of this post.  He is spleeping  peacefully in front of an unadorned yet beautifully designed fireplace. So I will close here. It’s comfortable.

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The Refrigerator
Holland and Germany, 1944
Infantry at Nijmegen, 1946 (The Canadian War Museum, Ottawa)
Dog and Child, 1952
Woman and Terrier, 1963 (Photo credit: Kerrisdale Gallery)
To Prince Edward Island, 1965
The River Spree, 1971
Refrigerator, 1977
Cat and Artist, 1979 (Photo credit: Bert Christensen)
Seven Crows, 1980 
 
  
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A Thank You Note

26 Saturday May 2012

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Someone wrote to me and pointed out that, in my blog on Alex Colville, I had included a photograph that was not a photograph of Mr Colville.

I have lost that person’s comment, but did edit my blog accordingly.

 

So thank you, in my name, and also on behalf of WordPress.

My best regards to all my faithful readers.

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From Coast to Coast: The Iron Horse, part 1

24 Thursday May 2012

Posted by michelinewalker in Canada, History

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Horse and Train, by Alex Colville
1954
glazed tempera
Gift of Dominion Foundries and Steel Limited 
Collection of the Art Gallery of Hamilton
 

Roy Campbell, (2 October 1901 – 22 April 1957) was an Anglo-African poet and satirist. (Wikipedia)

 Against a regiment I oppose a brain and a dark horse against an armoured train.

When artist Alexander Colville heard this poem, he was inspired to paint his “Horse and Train.”

There is truth to Roy Campbell’s lines.  The dark horse built the train or humans built the train, which makes humans, represented by a dark horse, more powerful than the train, which makes them: iron men.

However, it is not the train that was difficult to build, it was the railway.  The train existed, but only Colville’s dark horse could build the railway and the dark horse, to a large extent, consisted of Chinese immigrants who worked for a dollar a day to build a railway through several ranges of mountains.

Motivation

A Mari usque ad Mare

We cannot dismiss the territorial imperative that led to the view of a Dominion of Canada that would stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, but the dream of a country that went from sea to sea was also very compelling.  The moment this dream entered the imagination of the Fathers of Confederation, it played a powerful role:

It appears the phrase A Mari usque ad Mare was first used by George Monro Grant, C.M.G. (22 December 1835 – 10 May 1902) a  “Canadian church minister, writer, and political activist” from Stellarton, Nova Scotia, who would later serve as principal of Queen’s College, Kingston, Ontario for 25 years, from 1877 until 1902.  Reverend Grant was very much in favour of Confederation, and although his book entitled Ocean to Ocean (1873) was published after Confederation, the Reverend Grant helped shape public opinion in Nova Scotia.

Protection

Moreover, intrusions by Fenians in New Brunswick also shaped public opinion.  The Fenians had attacked New Brunswick and were attempting to cross the 49th parallel nearly all the way to the United Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, the amalgamation, in 1866, of the Colony of Vancouver Island and the Colony of British Columbia.  In 1868, Thomas D’Arcy Étienne Hughes McGee, PC, (April 13, 1825 – April 7, 1868) would be assassinated.  He died at the age of 42.  The population wanted protection.

Furthermore the threat of annexation by the United States, despite the Oregon Treaty of 1846, was not a figment of the people’s imagination.  According to Wikipedia:

[w]hen American Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the Alaska Purchase in 1867, it was part of his plan to incorporate the entire northwest Pacific Coast, chiefly for the long-term commercial advantages to the United States in terms of Pacific trade. Seward believed that the people in British Columbia wanted annexation and that Britain would accept this in exchange for the “Alabama claims”. (Wikipedia: History of British Columbia)

Consequently, within three years of the Charlottetown Conference, held from September 1 and September 9 September 1864, Confederation was achieved and it included Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario.  In 1870, Louis Riel had negotiated the entry of Manitoba into Confederation and on 20 July 1871, the afore-mentioned amalgamated Colonies of Vancouver Island and British  Columbia joined the Dominion of Canada.

However, they joined the Dominion of Canada on the condition that a railway be built that would stretch from sea to sea, but nevertheless entered early.  Queen Victoria had also acted promptly.  She was given the task of choosing a capital for the future Dominion of Canada in December 1857 and did so very quickly.  She chose Ottawa.

I would like to tell of the story of the railway today, but there is no room left.   So we will have a part 2 to the Iron Horse.  Confederation preceded the building of the railway.  Moreover, Confederation was negotiated.  As for the Dominion of Canada, it had a capital before it was a country.

Moreover, Canada did not have a Wild West.  The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrived at its the various destinations at about the same time as the settlers, if not earlier.  The Royal Northwest Mounted Police (RNWMP) was founded 1873.  They became the Royal Canadian Mountain Police in 1920 when there was a merger of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police with the Dominion Police (founded 1868).

A Video: please click on the title to hear and see the video.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police tribute 
 

A Mari usque ad Mare (“From Sea to Sea”), Canada’s motto (devise), was derived from Psalm 72:8, which reads in Latin “Et dominabitur a mari usque ad mare, et a flumine usque ad terminos terræ,” and in the King James version, “He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.”  (Wikipedia: A Mari usque ad Mare)

 Related Blog: From Coast to Coast: the Fenian Raids

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On Artist Alexander Colville

20 Sunday May 2012

Posted by michelinewalker in Art, Canada

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Hound in Field, by Alexander Colville*

*1958 casein tempera (cacéine a tempera)

Alexander Colville is great artist and, among all of his paintings, this is one I truly like.

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It has what I call definition.  There is nothing impressionistic about it.  It is a portrait of a dog drawn and painted with precision.  Yet the dog could not possibly have been posing.  It could be that it was photographed, but I doubt it.  For painters, photographs are best used to record lightness and darkness.  Yet, Colville is definitely familiar with the anatomy of dogs running, or dogs sleeping in front of a fireplace.

I also like this painting because it features a beautiful dog.  There are people for whom the subject of the painting is important.  I love sailboats, I love paintings of elegant interiors, paintings of flowers and, obviously, paintings featuring gorgeous dogs: man’s best friend.

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I am certain Mr Colville spent a great deal of time perfecting his Hound in Field, but the composition of this painting is simple: a sloping line and curved lines (the dog), then, above the sloping line, barely articulated dark trees that give depth to the painting.  The sloping line at the back is intersected by a sloping line in the portrait of the dog.  And there are several golden sections.  As for the colours, the painting has a monochromatic quality: black and greenish gold and white, but nothing busy.

However, the positioning of the dog is simply extraordinary.  If the dog were not turning around, he would fall off the painting, except that Colville is not letting him do so.  He is simply bringing to dog back to a more central point, yet not central.  The dynamics of this painting are superb.

Biographical Notes:  Alex Colville was born in Toronto, in 1920, but, after spending nearly three years in St. Catharines, Ontario, his family moved to Amherst, Nova Scotia when he was nine (in 1929).  He was educated (1938-1942) at Mount Allison University, in Sackville, New Brunswick, probably the best small university in Canada.

In 1942, the year he graduated from Mount Allison and married Rhoda Wright, Colville enrolled in the Canadian army, working as a war artist from 1944 until six months or so after the end of the war.  He met his future wife in art class.  There were only ten students in the class.  They had four children.

Colville taught art at Mount Allison from 1946 until 1963 and then devoted his life to his paintings, except that he moved his family to Wolfville, Nova Scotia in the early 1970s.  He was made Chancellor of Acadia University, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.  He now lives in Wolfville.

For further information and to see several paintings, visit Colville House, by clicking.

Brahms: Ballade Op 10 No 2 in D major, Glenn Gould
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Dog and Fireplace (but unnamed), 1951 graphite and gouache on watercolour board

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