William Kurelek Lumberjacks' Breakfast 1973 mixed media on panel Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia |
William Kurelek Lumberjacks' Breakfast 1974 mixed media on panel Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
William Kurelek The Bachelor 1955 mixed media on panel Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
William Kurelek Then He Permitted Him (Baptism of Christ) 1977 mixed media on panel Museum London, Ontario |
Alexei Jawlensky Coast at Carantec 1905-1906 oil on board Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
Alexei Jawlensky Lago Maggiore ca. 1918 oil on paper Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena |
Alexei Jawlensky Small Abstract Head 1929 watercolor and ink on paper Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena |
Alexei Jawlensky Still Life ca. 1906 oil on board North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
Wassily Kandinsky Open Green 1923 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena |
Wassily Kandinsky Round and Pointed 1930 oil on board Kunsthalle Mannheim |
Wassily Kandinsky Unequal 1932 oil and gouache on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena |
Wassily Kandinsky Untitled 1929 lithograph Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
Alphonse Legros Portrait of artist Edward Poynter ca. 1877 etching and drypoint Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
Alphonse Legros Autumn 1904 drawing National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
Alphonse Legros Figure Studies of Old Man ca. 1870 drawing High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
Alphonse Legros Peasants in Church ca. 1860 etching National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
from Part Three of The Age of Anxiety
Malin says:
As we cycle silent through a serious land
For hens and horses, my hunger for a live
Person to father impassions my sense
Of this boy's beauty in battle with time.
These old-world hamlets and haphazard lanes
Are perilous places; how plausible here
All arcadian cults of carnal perfection,
How intoxicating the platonic myth.
Emble says:
Pleasant my companion but I pine for another.
Quant says:
Our canoe makes no noise; monotonous
Ramparts of reeds surround our navigation;
The waterway winds as it wants through the hush:
O fortunate fluid her fingers caress.
Welcome her, world; sedge-warblers, betray your
Hiding places with song; and eddy, butterflies,
In frivolous flights about that fair head:
Welcome her, world; sedge-warblers, betray your
Hiding places with song; and eddy, butterflies,
In frivolous flights about that fair head:
How apt your homage to her innocent disdain.
Rosetta says:
The figure I prefer is far away.
Rosetta says:
The figure I prefer is far away.
– W.H. Auden (1944-46)