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| Joseph Mallord William Turner The Falls of the Clyde ca. 1845 oil on canvas Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| William Etty Académie before 1849 oil on panel Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Howard Hodgkin Silence 2004 oil on panel Victoria Art Gallery, Bath |
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| Henry Liverseege The Conversation (sketch for The Story of My Life) before 1832 oil on panel Manchester Art Gallery |
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| William Gear Red Feature 1966 gouache and oil pastel on paper McManus Gallery, Dundee |
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| Helen Frankenthaler Saturn 1963 acrylic on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
Light-years
It's a beautiful world, you said,
with these trees, marshes, deserts,
grasses, rivers and seas
and so on. And the moon is really something
in its circuits
of relative radiance. Include
the wingèd M, voluptuous
Venus, hotheaded Mars, that lucky devil
J and cranky Saturn, of course, plus
U and N and the wanderer P, in short
the whole solar family, complete with its
Milky Way, and count up all the other
systems with dots and spots and in
that endless emptiness what you've got
is a communion of you-know-what. It's a beautiful
universe, you said, just take a good look
through the desert's dark glasses
for instance or on your back
in seas of grass, take a good look
at the deluge of that Rorschach – we're standing out there
somewhere, together.
– Hester Knibbe, translated by Jacquelyn Pope (2010)
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| Derek Jarman Queer 1992 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Graham Sutherland Hanging Form over Water 1959 oil on canvas Southampton City Art Gallery |
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| follower of Joachim Patinir Landscape with the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah ca. 1510-30 oil on panel Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Patrick Procktor Beneath the Surface 1964 oil on canvas Museums Sheffield, Yorkshire |
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| Robin Philipson Fighting Horses (study for altarpiece, Defenders of the Realm) 1965 oil and vinyl toluene on paper, mounted on board Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow |
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| Philip Scoular Académie 1975 oil on board Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen |
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| Francis Bacon Study of a Dog 1952 oil on canvas Tate Modern, London |
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| Edward Wadsworth Composition on a Red Ground 1931 oil on panel Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
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| Ugolino di Nerio Crucifixion with Donors ca. 1317-27 tempera and gold leaf on panel Courtauld Gallery, London |