Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Chifflart - Gillray - Craig - Feint

François-Nicolas Chifflart
Persée
1867
etching
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

François-Nicolas Chifflart
Salvator Rosa amongst the Brigands
1863
etching
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

François-Nicolas Chifflart
The Surprise
1865
etching
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

François-Nicolas Chifflart
Triumph of Truth and Justice
1866
etching
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

James Gillray
The Apotheosis of Hoche
(anti-Jacobin satire)
1798
hand-colored etching
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas

James Gillray
Pylades & Orestes
(Boswell and Johnson)
1797
hand-colored engraving
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

James Gillray
The Great South Sea Caterpillar
transformed into a Bath Butterfly

(satire on the Prince Regent)
1795
hand-colored etching
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

James Gillray
Uncorking Old Sherry
(satire on British politicians)
1805
hand-colored engraving
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

Sybil Craig
Study of a Cast of the Dancing Faun
ca. 1924
drawing
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Sybil Craig
Interior
ca. 1935
gouache and ink on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Sybil Craig
Protea Flower Piece
1965
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Sybil Craig
Flowers
ca. 1942
linocut
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Adrian Feint
Flower Piece
1940
oil on canvass
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Adrian Feint
Ex Libris - Edward, Prince of Wales
1934
wood-engraving
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Adrian Feint
Strange Shore
1948
watercolor on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Adrian Feint
The Green Hen
1931
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

from In Memory of Sigmund Freud 

Only Hate was happy, hoping to augment
his practice now, and his dingy clientele
          who think they can be cured by killing
     and covering the gardens with ashes.

They are still alive, but in a world he changed
simply by looking back with no false regrets,
          all he did was to remember
     like the old and be honest like children.

He wasn't clever at all: he merely told
the unhappy Present to recite the Past
          like a poetry lesson till sooner
     or later it faltered at the line where

long ago the accusations had begun,
and suddenly knew by whom it had been judged,
          how rich life had been and how silly,
     and was life-forgiven and more humble,

able to approach the Future as a friend
without a wardrobe of excuses, without
          a set mask of rectitude or an
     embarrassing over-familiar gesture.

No wonder the ancient cultures of conceit
in his technique of unsettlement foresaw
           the fall of princes, the collapse of
     their lucrative patterns of frustration:

if he succeeded, why, the Generalised Life
would become impossible, the monolith
          of State be broken and prevented
     the co-operation of avengers.

– W.H. Auden (1939)