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| Eric H.M. Robertson Cartwheels ca. 1920-21 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Oskar Schlemmer Dancer (Gesture) 1922 tempera and oil on canvas Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
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| Laura Knight Dancer Resting 1923 etching and aquatint Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Gino Severini Pierrot with Guitar 1923 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Anonymous German Photographer Trapeze Artist ca. 1930-40 photographic postcard Wellcome Collection, London |
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| Ken Whisson Juggler and Pink, Yellow and Blue Aerialists 1989-90 oil on canvas National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| John Bellany Portrait of actor Tom Fleming ca. 1990 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Wes Walters Tony 1990 oil on canvas National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Johan Zoffany Elizabeth Farren as Hermione in The Winter's Tale ca. 1780 oil on canvas National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Édouard Manet The Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet) 1866 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta Woman with a Guitar ca. 1870 oil on panel Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Giovanni Boldini Guitar Player 1872 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Edgar Degas Two Dancers ca. 1872 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Louis Anquetin Portrait of singer Yvette Guilbert 1893 oil on canvas Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi |
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| Marc Chagall Circus Backstage 1912 gouache on paper Denver Art Museum |
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| Walt Kuhn Young Clown 1932 oil on canvas Denver Art Museum |
from A Prelude
"I want the cries of my geese to echo in space."
– Jean-François Millet
– Jean-François Millet
I want the cries of my geese
To echo in space, and the land
They fly above to be astir beneath
The agreement of its forms, as if it were
A self one might inhabit: life
Under leaf, gulls going in
To echo in space, and the land
They fly above to be astir beneath
The agreement of its forms, as if it were
A self one might inhabit: life
Under leaf, gulls going in
Behind the encroachment of the plough.
– Charles Tomlinson (1963)