Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Kurelek - Jawlensky - Kandinsky - Legros

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:
     How apt your homage to her innocent disdain.

Rosetta says:
     The figure I prefer is far away.

– W.H. Auden (1944-46)