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| Virginia Chihota The Constant Search for Self 2013 monoprint, oil stick and ink on paper Tate Gallery |
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| Lynette Yiadom-Boakye 10pm Saturday 2012 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Lucy McKenzie Side Entrance 2011 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Tala Madani A with Wagon 2010 oil paint on panel Tate Gallery |
A Term
At the last minute a word is waiting
not heard that way before and not to be
repeated or ever be remembered
one that always had been a household word
used in speaking of the ordinary
everyday recurrences of living
not newly chosen or long considered
or a matter for comment afterward
who would ever have thought it was the one
saying itself from the beginning through
all its uses and circumstances to
utter at last that meaning of its own
for which it had long been the only word
though it seems now that any word would do
– W.S. Merwin, from The Pupil (Knopf, 2001)
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| Cathy Wilkes Daddy Resting 2009 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Gary Hume Red Barn Door 2008 enamel paint on aluminum Tate Gallery |
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| Robert Mangold Column Structure II 2006 acrylic paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Gillian Carnegie Thirteen 2006 oil paint on board Tate Gallery |
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| Gerhard Richter Abstract Painting (Skin) (887-3) 2004 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Sigmar Polke Untitled (Triptych) 2002 polyester resin and acrylic paint on fabric Tate Gallery |
A Penitence
The joints within you
still won't dance.
Why the intense outcome?
Diamonds for every budget
customize tattered spaces.
It's nothing more, nor less,
than a seeming apocalypse:
air filled with air.
Someone will come along
to take care of you,
polish the millions of you
talking slang, happy as a zoo.
And it was so nice,
these leg warmers,
or a casual fugue.
Someday it will be as it is remembered.
Hurry, interesting life.
– John Ashbery, from Planisphere (Ecco, 2009)
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| Paul Feiler Janicon LXII 2002 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Howard Hodgkin Seafood 2001 etching, aquatint and carborundum on paper Tate Gallery |
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| Howard Hodgkin Tears Idle Tears 2001 etching, aquatint and carborundum on paper Tate Gallery |
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| Jock McFadyen Purfleet: from Dracula's Garden 2001 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |