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| Walter Sickert Queen's Road Station, Bayswater ca. 1916 oil on canvas Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Charles Demuth Love, Love, Love. Homage to Gertrude Stein 1928 oil on panel Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Christopher Wood Girl with Cakes before 1930 oil on canvas Dudley Museums, West Midlands |
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| John Worsley Portrait of John Henry 'Rob' Derbyshire 1948 oil on canvas Victoria Baths, Manchester |
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| Jasper Johns Alphabet 1959 oil on paper, mounted on board Art Institute of Chicago |
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| E.L.T. Mesens Mouvement Immobile II 1960 acrylic and collage on board Tate Modern, London |
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| David Hockney Egyptian Head Disappearing into Descending Clouds 1961 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
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| Ken Currie Glasgow Communist Party Committee Banner ca. 1983-85 acrylic on canvas Glasgow Caledonian University |
Rain at Reading
We had gathered under a tent in the park
for some words before lunch and after separate mornings,
and when – twice – the poet said "capital,"
the lightning bolts that followed the noun
had me bolting too; I'd always suspected
God's communist leanings, but now I regretted
how few exchanges we know
between craft and climate:
imagine a rhyme inciting a rainbow,
blood feuds bruising the sky,
hymns of forgiveness bringing a soft
new light to the faces watching the last act,
waltzes and songs and declamations –
this would be capital entertainment! –
locked in a clinch with open air.
But the lightning was as quick as it was loud.
The clouds dispersed,
and then so did the crowd.
– Rachel Wetzsteon (2010)
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| Simon Linke The Estate of Tony Smith ca. 1985 acrylic on canvas Southampton City Art Gallery |
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| Kay Rosen Torsos Rot 1989 enamel sign paint on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Derek Jarman Morphine 1992 oil and collage on canvas Southbank Centre, London |
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| Tony Morgan Le Mot 1997 oil and acrylic on canvas Southbank Centre, London |
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| Ed Ruscha The End #40 2003 acrylic on paper Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Bob and Roberta Smith I Went to an Event at the Tate 2009 commercial paint on fridge door Tate Modern, London |
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| Tala Madani A with Wagon 2010 oil on panel Tate Modern, London |