Friday, August 2, 2024

Estes - Kandinsky - Man Ray - Jillposters

Richard Estes
Venezia - Murano
1979
screenprint
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

Richard Estes
Nass Linoleum
1972
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Richard Estes
Big Diamonds for Less
ca. 1974
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Richard Estes
Restaurant
1979
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Wassily Kandinsky
Cup and Saucer
designed for State Porcelain Manufactory, Saint Petersburg

ca. 1921-23
porcelain
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Wassily Kandinsky
Comets
1938
lithograph
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia

Wassily Kandinsky
Sign
1925
oil on board
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Wassily Kandinsky
The Farewell
1903
color woodblock print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Man Ray
Portrait of photographer Berenice Abbott
ca. 1925
gelatin silver print
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Man Ray
Puériculture
ca. 1945
painted plaster and coffee can
Art Institute of Chicago

Man Ray
Untitled (Paris)
1924
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Man Ray
Variation
1946
oil on panel
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Jillposters (feminist collective in Melbourne)
Childcare is not just a Women's Issue
(Greek version)
1984
screenprint (poster)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jillposters (feminist collective in Melbourne)
she beckoned to me from the bar
ca. 1983-87
screenprint (postcard)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jillposters (feminist collective in Melbourne)
at the age of five
I decided to stop serving him

ca. 1983-87
screenprint (postcard)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jillposters (feminist collective in Melbourne)
U.S. Bases Out
1983
screenprint (poster)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Sonnets from China

                                 IX

He looked in all His wisdom from His throne
Down on the humble boy who herded sheep,
And sent a dove. The dove returned alone:
Song put a charmed rusticity to sleep.

But He had planned such future for this youth:
Surely, His duty now was to compel,
To count on time to bring true love of truth
And, with it, gratitude. His eagle fell.

It did not work: His conversation bored
The boy, who yawned and whistled and made faces,
And wriggled free from fatherly embraces,

But with His messenger was always willing
To go where it suggested, and adored,
And learned from it so many ways of killing. 

– W.H. Auden (1938)