Oldenburg - Roberts - Brassaï - Jillposters

Claes Oldenburg
The Letter Q as Beach House with Sailboat
1972
lithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Claes Oldenburg
Geometric Mouse
1969-71
painted aluminum and steel
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Claes Oldenburg
Ice Cream Soda with Cookie
1963
painted plaster and glass with found objects
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Claes Oldenburg
Ice Bag (scale B)
1971
mixed-media construction
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Tom Roberts
Madame Hartl
1909-1910
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Tom Roberts
Smike Streeton, age 24
1891
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Tom Roberts
Study of Lena Brasch
ca. 1893
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Tom Roberts
Eileen
1892
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Brassaï
English Showgirl, Folies Bergère
1932
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Brassaï
Stagehand Asleep, Folies Bergère
ca. 1932
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Brassaï
Masked Women in Carnival Sideshow
ca. 1933
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Brassaï
Women on Parade in Carnival Sideshow
ca. 1933
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jillposters (feminist collective in Melbourne)
Stop Uranium Sales to France
ca. 1983-87
screenprint (postcard)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jillposters (feminist collective in Melbourne)
Agitate for Nuclear-free Fish
ca. 1983-87
screenprint (postcard)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jillposters (feminist collective in Melbourne)
No Child Need Ever Worry
1983
screenprint (poster)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jillposters (feminist collective in Melbourne)
Direct from Grower to You
1984
screenprint (poster)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

from A Walk after Dark

A cloudless night like this
Can set the spirit soaring:
After a tiring day

The clockwork spectacle is

Impressive in a slightly boring

Eighteenth-century way.

It soothed adolescence a lot

To meet so shameless a stare;

The things I did could not

Be so shocking as they said

If that would still be there

After the shocked were dead.

Now, unready to die

But already at the stage

When one starts to resent the young,

I am glad those points in the sky

May also be counted among

The creatures of middle age.

It's cosier thinking of night

As more an Old People's Home
Than a shed for a faultless machine,

That the red pre-Cambrian light
Is gone like Imperial Rome

Or myself at seventeen.

Yet however much we may like
The stoic manner in which

The classical authors wrote,

Only the young and the rich

Have the nerve or the figure to strike
The lacrimae rerum note.

– W.H. Auden (1948)