Study in China

Raoul Dufy's regattas I have nothing to say about Dufy. Just wanted to plunge in his blue. This water... There's something about blue that touch us deeply. "Because the sky is blue it makes me cry Because the sky is... blue!" John Lennon

YES - Yoko Ono's Yes Painting that attracted John Lennon This is the Yoko work that Lennon visited and first met her: "Ceiling Painting (YES Painting), Yoko Ono, 1966." " "Climb up a ladder. Look at the painting on the ceiling with a magnifying glass, and find the word ‘YES’" Maybe men are not catch only by the stomach. Here is what Lennon said: Q: How did you meet Yoko? John Lennon: There was a sort of underground clique in London; John Dunbar, who was married to Marianne Faithfull, had an art gallery in London called Indica, and I'd been going around to galleries a bit on me off days in between records, also to a few exhibitions in different galleries that showed sort of unknown artists or underground artists. I got the word that this amazing woman was putting on a show the next week, something about people in bags, in black bags, and it was going to be a bit of a happening and all that. So I w...

If you listen you'll see that what he said portrays the world as it is today. By that time musicians, artists, writers,and all of those who were in the culture arena were part of the anti-establishment movement, anti-war movement or counterculture or any movement for fight for freedom and a better world. It was not about leadership. It has to do with saying what many who don't have a microphone was thinking and uniting people who wanted to change the world. In the era of celebrities it was lost. "I think that our society is run by insane people for insane objectives..." "If anybody can put on paper what our government, the American government etc., and Russian and China, what they are actually trying to do, what do they think they're doing I would be very pleased to know what they think they're doing!" "All we have to do is awaken the power in the people. The people are unaware, they are not educated to realize that they hav...

John Lennon's Mind Games Mind Games John Lennon We're playing those mind games together Pushing the barriers planting seeds Playing the mind guerrilla Chanting the Mantra peace on earth We all been playing those mind games forever Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil Doing the mind guerrilla Some call it magic the search for the grail Love is the answer and you know that for sure Love is a flower you got to let it grow So keep on playing those mind games together Faith in the future out of the now You just can't beat on those mind guerrillas Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind Yeah we're playing those mind games together Projecting our images in space and in time Yes is the answer and you know that for sure Yes is surrender you got to let it go So keep on playing those mind games together Doing the ritual dance in the sun Millions of mind guerrillas Putting their soul p...

  Michael Horowitz * , Timothy Leary's longtime archivist, has permitted the Timothy Leary Archives website to publish a transcription of a tape recorded conversation between Dr. Leary and his wife Rosemary, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono, made during John and Yoko's Bed-In for Peace in Montreal, May 1969. Tim had given it to Michael, in 1984, as a present for finishing Tim's bibliography. The conversation took place during John and Yoko’s week-long

John H. Twachtman's Winter Harmony explained by Christopher Volpe Right: Winter Harmony,1890-1900, by John H. Twachtman Left: detail I just came across with Christopher Volpe's blog and I'm amazed by the way he make us "see" and "feel" a painting. Excerpts of what he wrote about "Winter Harmony" by John H. Twachtman: "Twachtman's "Winter Harmony" employs a circular composition to keep the eye moving throughout. But that's not what earned this painting its more or less permanent place in history. The entire thing is a luminous riot of alternating currents - familiar scenery and an extraordinary scene, warm and cool colors, rounded horizontal and straight vertical lines, all playing counterpoint to each other within the larger, circular composition that keeps the eye moving and jumping all over the canvas until the naked lyrical miracle of th...

Copyright 2012 Dr. Timothy Leary’s Futique Trust Michael Horowitz, Tim’s longtime archivist and contributing editor to this website, has brought us this transcript from a tape recording of a conversation between Timothy and Rosemary Leary and John Lennon and Yoko Ono, which he found buried in his personal archives. Photo by Stephen Sammons. Rosemary Leary, Timothy Leary, Yoko Ono and John Lennon, reading the local paper about their "Bed-In." From Michael: “Back in 1984, Tim gave me this as a present to ce