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| Nancy Spero Lovers 1962 oil on canvas Tate Modern, London |
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| John Baldessari Hope (Blue) supported by a Bed of Oranges (Life): Amid a Context of Allusion 1991 oil, vinyl, and acrylic paint on photographs Tate Modern, London |
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| Man Ray Pisces 1938 oil on canvas Tate Modern, London |
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| Robert Rauschenberg Almanac 1962 oil, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas Tate Modern, London |
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| Morris Louis Golden Age 1958 acrylic on canvas Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Morris Louis Phi 1960-61 acrylic on canvas Tate Modern, London |
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| Jasper Johns 0 through 9 1961 oil on canvas Tate Modern, London |
The Present
It was a vertical time. It was the expression, a spirit giving way onto an electric barren. We circled and were encircled and had no cause. It was a time of the self come on in a field of apparatuses. It was vignetted by sleep, and the sleep was in its center breached. Cold moving through the smell of gas. The big-leafed enclosure. It was a time that clattered at the horizons, whose recounting was already foreclosed, as in a numeral smudged in powder, as in a thin water making of the atmosphere a disc. It was a time of guzzling. A time amid what has been kept, a time of calendared trust, repeated appeal, erasures of flight. We begin with a weedy stem drawn against the winter sky. Dear hierophant, our decision initialed. The muffled sound of the closet and the machine.
– Ryo Yamaguchi (2018)
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| Robert Motherwell Scottish Ballad 1990 acrylic and collage on canvas Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland |
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| Robert Motherwell Open #122 in Scarlet and Blue 1969 acrylic on canvas Tate Modern, London |
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| Roy Lichtenstein In the Car 1963 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Roy Lichtenstein Purist Painting with Bottles 1975 oil on canvas Wolverhampton Art Gallery, West Midlands |
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| Kenneth Noland Newlight 1963 acrylic on canvas Ulster Museums, Belfast |
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| R.B. Kitaj The Architects 1981 oil on canvas Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Sussex |
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| R.B. Kitaj The Wedding 1989-93 oil on canvas Tate Modern, London |
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| R.B. Kitaj after William Blake Death's Door 2005 oil on canvas Tate Modern, London |