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| Edwina Leapman Untitled Deep Blue 1964-65 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Edwina Leapman Untitled Orange 1964-65 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Peter Stroud Six Thin Reds 1960 polyvinyl acetate paint on hardboard Tate Gallery |
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| John Hoyland April 1961 1961 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
Love and Art
As pen and ink alike serve him who sings
in high or low or intermediate style;
as the same stone hath shapes both rich and vile
to match the fancies that each master brings;
so, my loved lord, within thy bosom springs
pride mixed with meekness and kind thoughts that smile:
when I draw nought, my sad self to beguile,
but what my face shows – dark imaginings.
He, who for seed sows sorrow, tears, and sighs,
(the dews that fall from heaven, though pure and clear
from different germs take divers qualities)
must needs reap grief and garner weeping eyes;
and he, who looks on beauty with sad cheer,
gains doubtful hope and certain miseries.
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| John Hoyland No. 22 20-2-62 1962 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Olle Bærtling Ardek 1963 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Terry Frost June, Red and Black 1965 acrylic paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Jack Bush Colour Column on Suede 1965 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Patrick Heron Cadmium with Violet, Scarlet, Emerald, Lemon and Venetian: 1969 1969 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Patrick Heron Purple Shape in Blue: 1964 1964 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
Beauty and the Artist
A heart of flaming sulphur, flesh of tow,
bones of dry wood, a soul without a guide
to curb the fiery will, the ruffling pride
of fierce desires that from the passions flow;
a sightless mind that weak and lame doth go
mid snares and pitfalls scattered far and wide; –
what wonder if the first chance brand applied
to fuel massed like this should make it glow?
Add beauteous art, which, brought with us from heaven,
will conquer nature; – so divine a power
belongs to him who strives with every nerve.
If I was made for art, from childhood given
a prey for burning beauty to devour,
I blame the mistress I was born to serve.
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| Josef Albers Study for Homage to the Square 1963 oil paint on fibreboard Tate Gallery |
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| Josef Albers Study for Homage to the Square 1964 oil paint on fibreboard Tate Gallery |
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| Josef Albers Study for Homage to the Square: Beaming 1963 oil paint on fibreboard Tate Gallery |
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| Josef Albers Study for Homage to the Square: Departing in Yellow 1964 oil paint on fibreboard Tate Gallery |
– sonnets by Michelangelo Buonnaroti (1475-1564), as translated by John Addington Symonds (1840-1893)