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Dean Frey
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aka Deny Fear 📷 Esther Bubley Man on Platform, c. 1951 Profile: Nicola D'Ascenzo's "His Master's Voice" stained-glass window "And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling." - Bruce Chatwin
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Nov 20
Another cup of coffee? No thanks, I've had plenty... Ha ha ha ha ha! I'm just kidding. Keep 'em coming. ☕️☕️☕️

Lew Baxter in Her Own Money, 1922

This is a print from the great French photographer Roger Corbeau's silent Hollywood film collection.
Baxter, offered a cup of coffee, waves the woman with the pot away.
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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 4h
The Velvet Underground, Filmmakers' Cinematheque, New York City, February 8, 1966 by Fred W. McDarrah #LouReed #JohnCale
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Sezen @sezen1.bsky.social · 18h
Her readers are so ready.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1d
Anne Carson, you ready?
Anne Carson by Jeff Brown, 2013 The next Nobel Laureate for Literature?
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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 18h
Isn't it pretty to think so (I'm sure she's to be robbed once again).
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Anne Carson, you ready?
Anne Carson by Jeff Brown, 2013 The next Nobel Laureate for Literature?
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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 18h
Nobel wagers. The prize would be in excellent hands. 🇨🇦
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Anne Carson, you ready?
Anne Carson by Jeff Brown, 2013 The next Nobel Laureate for Literature?
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1d
Anne Carson, you ready?
Anne Carson by Jeff Brown, 2013 The next Nobel Laureate for Literature?
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 18h
Qimaajuk Ukali (Running Rabbit) by Tim Pitsiulak, 2016
Painting of a running rabbit wearing a bllue hoodie
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qan-dys.bsky.social @qan-dys.bsky.social · 23h
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1d
Anne Carson, you ready?
Anne Carson by Jeff Brown, 2013 The next Nobel Laureate for Literature?
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Big Cypress Box Set @waveofhopepatrol.bsky.social · 1d
Twiggy Stardust
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1d
Yo-Yo Ma, aged nine, by Irving Penn, 1964
The serious young cellist with his instrument
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1d
For Yo-Yo Ma’s birthday 🎂

Robert Leighton
New Yorker
January 25, 2016
Caption: "No wonder these Yo-Yo Ma tickets were still available. He's going to be playing the saxophone." Description: A couple sits reading a playbill in a nearly-empty concert hall.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1d
On Yo-Yo Ma’s birthday I’m listening to his 1987 set of Beethoven’s complete works for cello & piano with Emanuel Ax.

I’m having as much fun listening to this as the two of them are obviously having in Bill King’s cover photo.

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Now Playing Cassette case of Ma & Ax’s Complete Sonatas & Variations. The two musicians smiling & laughing.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1d
Happy birthday Yo-Yo Ma 🎂
📷 Mark Hauser, 1993

“Ma has the virtuosity and musicianship to express every nuance and colour, from rich, golden tone to whispered harmonic, and he brings them all into full play.”
- Fiona Maddocks
Closeup of Ma, one hand on his cello
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Oct 7
The Mitchell/Riopelle exhibition at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec & the AGO Toronto, "Nothing in Moderation", paired the works of long-time couple Joan Mitchell & Jean-Paul Riopelle.

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📷 Andrew Francis Wallace, 2018
A woman stands back & looks at two large abstract expressionist paintings on an art gallery wall
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Oct 7
Jean-Paul Riopelle in his Paris studio, 52 Rue Durantin, Paris 18e
📷 Denise Colomb, 1952

"He preferred to talk about fishing, or hockey, or food. He was never on time."
- Bonnie Baxter
Riopelle looks at the camera from behind a paint-spattered window in his studio
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Oct 7
Joan Mitchell & Jean-Paul Riopelle in Chicago, 1957
anonymous photographer

"Mitchell & Riopelle took nothing, especially painting, in moderation when they were setting the agenda of abstract art in Europe and North America in the years following World War II."
- Kenneth Brummel
Mitchell & Riopelle sit on a sofa in front of an abstract expressionist painting
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Oct 7
Jean-Paul Riopelle
Triptyque orange

"His painting, guided by creative intelligence, has a penetrating quality & density redolent of jewelry."
- Yoyo Maeght

Today we're celebrating the great Canadian painter's birthday 🎂
An abstract expressionist tryptich, with two green and black panels surrounding an orange and black one.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Oct 7
Riopelle, Arctique
📷 Claude Duthuit, July 1977

In the 1970s, Jean-Paul Riopelle, who had lived in Paris for most of the previous two decades, began to spend more time in Canada.
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Riopelle stands in a boulder-strewn, behind huge chunks of melting ice.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Oct 7
Jean-Paul Riopelle's design for the 1978 Chateau Mouton Rothschild label.

A very good year, but if you have a few cases left in your cellar, I imagine you should drink them up soon.
Wine label with Riopelle-designed medallions in an abstract expressionist style. Cette récolte 1978 a produit 268.350 bordelaises et demies 3.170 magnums et jéroboams tout mis en bouteilles au Château
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Oct 7
Here's another Jean-Paul Riopelle photo I love, by Loomis Dean for Life magazine, 1959. He's with his beautiful Bugatti. He has a second model to strip for parts!
Riopelle, smoking a cigarette, stands in front of two vintage Bugattis, one beautifully restored, the other an identical model broken down & stripped for parts.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Oct 7
Jean-Paul Riopelle
Feu vert, 1957
Centre Pompidou
Abstract expressionist painting by Rioppelle. Over top of a background of orange, red & yellow splotches are black markings reminiscent of a forest, perhaps.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Oct 7
In a nod, perhaps, to Martha Holmes' famous 1949 Life photos of Jackson Pollock as 'action painter', Denise Colomb, in 1952, shows Jean-Paul Riopelle at work on the floor of his studio.

"Greatest American painter" vs. "sexy Canadian painter".
Pollock, a cigarette in his mouth, dribbles paint onto a canvas spread out on his studio floor. Riopelle, sitting on the floor of his studio in front of a large abstract expressionist painting, paints a canvas on the floor.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Oct 7
It's underlined by the additional shot of his studio shoes.

Jean-Paul Riopelle by Denise Colomb, Paris, 1952
Paint-encrusted shoes on a paint-spattered floor
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Oct 7
I love the mock-heroic pose of Jean-Paul Riopelle in this Denise Colomb portrait from 1952.
Riopelle stands in front of one of his large abstract expressionist paintings, in a paint-spattered studio.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Oct 7
Jean-Paul Riopelle by Denise Colomb, 52 rue Durantin, Paris 18e, 1952

"Painting is akin to an illness. Someone suddenly decides that, with or without means, he is going to paint, and then he paints all his life…"
Riopelle looks intently into the camera. He's standing in front of a paint-streaked window in his studio.
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