Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Gauguin, Hughes-Stanton, Kentridge (Printmakers)

Paul Gauguin
L'Univers est crée (Creation of the universe)
1893-94
woodcut
Art Institute of Chicago

Paul Gauguin
L'Univers est crée (Creation of the universe)
1893-94
color woodcut
British Museum

Paul Gauguin
Mahna no Varua Ino (The Devil speaks)
1893-94
woodcut
British Museum

Paul Gauguin
Auti te Pape (Women at the river)
1893-94
woodcut with stencil coloring
British Museum

Paul Gauguin
Te Atua (The Gods)
1893-94
color woodcut
British Museum

Tahiti Trot

We close in on ourselves,
then yelp that the world is awry.
If one person could see his (or her)
reflection outlined in the mirror

the last knot would come untied,
the great ship slip into the depths
of the Atlantic Ocean. Who told you
to say that? Why have you come here?

We need more people like you
to tell us what we're not like. True,
aging would get lost in the process.
We'd be sitting on the grass like young

idiots, involved in some personal spell
when the boiler exploded. You'd say
"I can't get over that hat," and I,
pretending not to understand, would say,
"Can I get you anything?"

– John Ashbery (1993)

Blair Hughes-Stanton
A Man Died
(tribute to D.H. Lawrence, marking his recent death)

1930
wood-engraving
British Museum

Blair Hughes-Stanton
 Figures in cemetery
(illustration to Erewhon by Samuel Butler for Gregynog Press)
1932
wood-engraving
British Museum

Blair Hughes-Stanton
The Brothers
(illustration to Milton's Comus for Gregynog Press)
1931
wood-engraving
British Museum

Blair Hughes-Stanton
Pastoral III
(illustration to Four Poems by Milton for Gregynog Press)
1932
wood-engraving
British Museum

Blair Hughes-Stanton
 Zephir with Aurora
(illustration to Four Poems by Milton for Gregynog Press)
1932
wood-engraving
British Museum

from Comus: A Masque

Second Brother: 
How charming is divine Philosophy!
Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,
But musical as is Apollo's lute,
And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets,
Where no crude surfeit reigns.

Elder Brother:
List! list! I hear
Some far-off hallo break the silent air.

Second Brother:
Methought so too; what should it be?

Elder Brother:
For certain,
Either some one like us night-foundered here,
Or else some neighbour woodman, or, at worst,
Some roving robber calling to his fellows.

Second Brother:
Heaven keep my sister! Again, again and near!
Best draw, and stand upon our guard.

Elder Brother:
I'll hallo.
If he be friendly, he comes well; if not,
Defence is a good cause, and Heaven be with us!

– John Milton (1638)

William Kentridge
Grape Print - Jug
(Pages from Mrs Beeton's Household Management - with jug)
2000
lithograph
British Museum

William Kentridge
Grape Print - La Cosecha
(Pages from Mrs Beeton's Household Management - with grape carrier)
2000
lithograph
British Museum

William Kentridge
Pages from De Peccato Originali with Landscape
2000
lithograph
British Museum

William Kentridge
Woozebear and the Zoo Bears
(poster for Junction Avenue Theatre Co., Johannesburg)
1981
lithograph (recto)
British Museum

William Kentridge
Woozebear and the Zoo Bears
(poster for Junction Avenue Theatre Co., Johannesburg)
1981
lithograph (verso)
British Museum

At The Zoo

On the back of an invoice
I wrote my name in large Capitalist June Blue Letters

And because money was involved
And so was my name ever in jeopardy

On the back of the same invoice
I rewrote my name in large Capitalist June Blue Letters

And in Leopardy and in Jeopardy
I resolved, dissolved upon a radical eradicator

Inking in, dissolving upon
Jeopardizing in my own name in large Capitalist June Blue Letters

– Alfred Starr Hamilton (1914-2005)