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| George Bellows Figure Study ca. 1923 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Francis Cadell Figure Study before 1937 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Lovis Corinth Model with Hat ca. 1910 wash drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Frank Dobson Nude 1946 drawing Tate Gallery |
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| Max Klinger Figure Study ca. 1900-1910 drawing on green paper British Museum |
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| George Luks Study for The Wrestlers ca. 1905 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Human Beauty
If you write a poem about love . . .
the love is a bird,
the poem is an origami bird.
If you write a poem about death . . .
the death is a terrible fire,
the poem is an offering of paper cut-out flames
you feed to the fire.
We can see, in these, the space between
our gestures and the power they address
– an insufficiency. And yet a kind of beauty,
a distinctly human beauty. When a winter storm
from out of nowhere hit New York one night
in 1892, the crew at a theater was caught
unloading props: a box
of paper snow for the Christmas scene got dropped
and broken open, and that flash of white
confetti was lost
inside what it was a praise of.
– Albert Goldbarth (2004)
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| William Orpen Figure Studies before 1922 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Juan Muñoz Back Drawing 1990 chalk and ink on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| William Orpen after Michelangelo Anatomical Study - Turning Man ca. 1906 drawing Tate Gallery |
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| John Singer Sargent Figure Study ca. 1917-21 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Charles Sheeler Torso ca. 1920 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Reijer Stolk Figure Study before 1945 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Keith Vaughan Warrior 1960 drawing Tate Gallery |
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| Christopher Wood Figure Study before 1930 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |