Porque este blogue fez 9 anos no dia 14 :-)

Robert Indiana, Nine (2001)

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«(...) o nove, na símbologia numérica medieval, é a Sabedoria, o Conhecimento Supremo (...).»

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In Matilde Asensi, O Último Catão, Lisboa, Dom Quixote, 2005, p. 149.
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Contador das cenas familiares (1570-1580, Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, Porto)

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 Marcel Duchamp, Neuf moules mâlic (1914-1915)

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Almada Negreiros, Fábulas (1943, Museu do Abade de Baçal)

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Almada Negreiros, Relação 9/10 (1957, CAM)

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Sol LeWitt, Nine-sided figure (1989) 

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Ellsworth Kelly, Nine squares (1977)

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Rachel Whiteread, Untitled (Nine Tables) (1998)

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Jean Pillement, Conjunto de 9 botões com paisagens (c. 1790, Museu Nacional do Traje)

Com votos de Feliz Dia do Pai

Marcel Duchamp, Retrato do Pai do Artista (1910, Philadelphia Museum of Art)

E Rodas...

Roda da fortuna: facial da cabeceira do túmulo de D.Pedro I (séc. XIV, Mosteiro de Alcobaça)

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Fra Angelico, Mystic Wheel (The Vision Of Ezekiel) (1451-1452, Museo di San Marco, Florença)

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Coche da embaixada ao Papa Clemente XI, dos Oceanos (1716, Museu Nacional dos Coches)

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Marc Chagall, La Grande Roue

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Marcel Duchamp, Roue de bicyclette (1913, Israel Museum, Jerusalem)

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Stanley Pinker, The Wheel Of Life (1974)

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Wojciech Siudmak, La Roue Du Temps

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Pensamentos

Marcel Duchamp, Avoir l'apprenti dans le soleil (1914, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia)

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"(…) How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of nature! Are you well up in your Jean Paul?"

"Fairly so. I worked back to him through Carlyle."

"That was like following the brook to the parent lake. He makes one curious but profound remark. It is that the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. It argues, you see, a power of comparison and of appreciation which is in itself a proof of nobility. There is much food for thought in Richter. (…)»

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2097/2097-h/2097-h.htm

O Xadrez

«Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make people happy.»

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Siegbert Tarrasch.

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Lewis chesspieces (1150-1200, British Museum - Link)

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Sofonisba Anguissola, Lucia, Minerva and Europa Anguissola Playing Chess (1555 - Link)

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Cornelis de Man, The Chess Players (c. 1670, Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest - Link) -

Moore (?), Jogando Xadrez (Museu de Lamego - Link)

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Jean-Léon Gérôme, Arnauts Playing Chess (1859, Wallace Collection, London - Link)

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Thomas Eakins, The Chess Player (1876, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Link)

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«While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.»

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Marcel Duchamp.

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Marcel Duchamp, Chess Game (1910, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia - Link)

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Paul Klee, The great chess game (1937, Kunsthaus, Zurich - Link)

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Paul Wunderlich, A Game of Chess (Link)

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Rosa Ramalho, Bispo preto (séc. XX, Museu Nacional de Etnologia - Link)

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Links interessantes sobre o tema:

• «Chess in Paintings», 10/1/2011, http://www.alinalami.com/2011/01/chess-in-paintings.html
• «Chess in the Arts», http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_in_the_arts
• «Marcel Duchamp: Chess Master», http://www.slu.edu/x29638.xml

As Bicicletas

Estão muito na moda, porque fazem bem à saúde, são ecológicas e económicas

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Há quem faça arte sobre e com elas, em diversos géneros e estilos. Ficam alguns exemplos.

Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle wheel (1913, Israel Museum, Jerusalem - Link)

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Ai Weiwei, Shanghai Forever Co (Link)

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Linda Apple, Afternoon Delight (2010 - Link)

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Ciclista (Museu da Guarda - Link)

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Prato (Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro - Link)

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Mas eu, sinceramente, quando olho para elas, é nisto que penso:

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O Xadrez

Thomas Eakins, The chess players (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

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«The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem».

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Marcel Duchamp.