Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Visual Relics (1961-1968)

Morris Louis
Number 182
1961
acrylic on canvas
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Robert Motherwell
In White and Yellow Ochre
1961
oil paint, charcoal and collage on paper
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Leonard Baskin
Hendrik Goltzius
1962
etching
Cleveland Museum of Art

Leonard Baskin
Diego Velázquez
ca. 1963
woodcut
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Kansas City, Missouri

Christo
Wrapped Venus, Villa Borghese
1963
etching and lithograph with collage
Milwaukee Art Museum

Christo
Store-Front Project
1964
enamel paint, charcoal, crayon, fabric and tape
Milwaukee Art Museum

Frank Lobdell
Figure Drawing No. 7
1964
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Roberto Matta
Castronauts
1965
color etching and aquatint
Cleveland Museum of Art

Lucio Fontana
Concetto Spaziale Attesa
1965
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Helen Frankenthaler
Canyon
1965
acrylic on canvas
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Helen Frankenthaler
Blue-Fall
1966
acrylic on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Chet Helms
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
1966
lithograph (poster)
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Alex Katz
White Lilies
1966
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Richard Diebenkorn
Ocean Park No. 16
1968
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Byron Randall
Man Drying
1968
woodcut
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Larry Rivers
O'Hara Reading
1967
lithograph and collage
Minneapolis Institute of Art

On a day Fotis came running to me in great feare, and said that her mistresse, to worke her sorceries on such as she loved, intended the night following to transforme her selfe into a bird, and to fly whither she pleased. Wherefore she willed me privily to prepare my self to see the same. And when midnight came she led me softly into a high chamber, and bid me look thorow the chink of a doore: where first I saw how shee put off all her garments, and took out of a certain coffer sundry kindes of Boxes, of the which she opened one, and tempered the ointment therein with her fingers, and then rubbed her body therewith from the sole of the foot to the crowne of the head, and when she had spoken privily with her selfe, having the candle in her hand, she shaked the parts of her body, and behold, I perceived a plume of feathers did burgen out, her nose waxed crooked and hard, her nailes turned into clawes, and so she became an Owle. Then she cried and screeched like a Bird of that kinde, and willing to proove her force, mooved her selfe from the ground by little and little, til at last she flew quite away. 

– Apuleius, The Golden Ass, translated by William Adlington (1566)