http://www.barneybubbles.com/blog/archives/2855 The life and work of Barney Bubbles Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:35:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.barneybubbles.com/blog/archives/2855/comment-page-1#comment-632 Jan Vollaard Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:18:00 +0000 http://www.barneybubbles.com/blog/?p=2855#comment-632 Theo van Doesburg posthumously met Barney Bubbles in Leiden last Sunday. I started my tribute to Bubbles by playing Ian Dury's 'Sex & drugs & rock & roll' and pointed out that, although there was no rock & roll in the 1920's. Van Doesburg would have been delighted to hear this song played in his honour. In many ways he was the rock & roll rebel, or punk artist, of his time. Dada never dies. A captive audience listened to me speak about the Alfonse Mucha-, Kandinsky- and Pollock-references in Bubbles' work, before we reached the main course of the many van Doesburg-associated artists and styles that were touched upon in Barney's work. I made a display of album and 45 covers and many people stuck around to study the Do It Yourself wallpaper sleeves and the Blockhead watch that I got from Billy Bragg (thank you, Bill! It's always three o'clock in my workroom). If you can't come to Leiden before January 3, make sure to catch the van Doesburg & The International Avant-Garde exhibition in London's Tate Modern, opening in February next year. Barney would have approved. Theo van Doesburg posthumously met Barney Bubbles in Leiden last Sunday.
I started my tribute to Bubbles by playing Ian Dury’s ‘Sex & drugs & rock & roll’ and pointed out that, although there was no rock & roll in the 1920’s.
Van Doesburg would have been delighted to hear this song played in his honour. In many ways he was the rock & roll rebel, or punk artist, of his time.
Dada never dies.
A captive audience listened to me speak about the Alfonse Mucha-, Kandinsky- and Pollock-references in Bubbles’ work, before we reached the main course of the many van Doesburg-associated artists and styles that were touched upon in Barney’s work.
I made a display of album and 45 covers and many people stuck around to study the Do It Yourself wallpaper sleeves and the Blockhead watch that I got from Billy Bragg (thank you, Bill! It’s always three o’clock in my workroom).
If you can’t come to Leiden before January 3, make sure to catch the van Doesburg & The International Avant-Garde exhibition in London’s Tate Modern, opening in February next year.
Barney would have approved.

]]> http://www.barneybubbles.com/blog/archives/2855/comment-page-1#comment-626 Paul Gorman Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:27:43 +0000 http://www.barneybubbles.com/blog/?p=2855#comment-626 Dear Kitty provides an appetising entree to van Doesburg's work and his association with fellow artists and movements (with some great clips) here: http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2009/12/03/theo-van-doesburg-nelly-van-doesburg-dadaism-de-stijl/ Dear Kitty provides an appetising entree to van Doesburg’s work and his association with fellow artists and movements (with some great clips) here: http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2009/12/03/theo-van-doesburg-nelly-van-doesburg-dadaism-de-stijl/

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