Ancient Greek Culture Eros as Lamp Holder 1st century BC bronze Dallas Museum of Art |
Henry Havemeyer Ladies Bathing at Bailey's Beach, Newport ca. 1890 gelatin silver print Newport Historical Society, Rhode Island |
Robert Henri Green Stockings before 1929 colored chalk and graphite on paper New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
Édouard Manet George Moore in Manet's Garden ca. 1879 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Clark Hobart A Dream of California ca. 1915 oil on canvas Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California |
Pär Hennix Coat Rack ca. 1950 drawing Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
Timothy Horn Gorgonia 5 (Full Fathom Five) 2015 nickel-plated brass and mirrored blown-glass Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
Jim Houser (1928-2021) Sentinel ca. 1969 mixed media on canvas NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
Jim Houser (1928-2021) At the Beach ca. 1965 oil on canvas NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
Jim Houser (born 1973) Iso Ball 2022 acrylic and collage on panel private collection |
Anton Horchler 17th-century jurist Samuel von Pufendorf 1844 marble Neue Pinakothek, Munich |
Anthony Hopkins Exploding in Spasm: Earth Light ca. 1998 pastel on paper National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Leonhard Holle (printer) Illustration to The Book of Wisdom 1483 hand-colored woodcut and letterpress North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
Tua Hayes Red Cabbage ca. 1967 oil on canvas Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
James Hayllar A Family Group 1864 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
Oliver Herring Mondrian Miek 2000 C-print Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina |
Consider
Consider this and in our time
As the hawk sees it or the helmeted airman:
The clouds rift suddenly – look there
The clouds rift suddenly – look there
At cigarette-end smouldering on a border
At the first garden party of the year.
Pass on, admire the view of the massif
Through plate-glass windows of the Sport Hotel;
Join there the insufficient units
Dangerous, easy, in furs, in uniform,
And constellated at reserved tables,
Supplied with feelings by an efficient band,
Relayed elsewhere to farmers and their dogs
Sitting in kitchens in the stormy fens.
Long ago, supreme Antagonist,
More powerful than the great northern whale,
Ancient and sorry at life's limiting defect,
In Cornwall, Mendip, or the Pennine moor
Your comments on the highborn mining-captains,
Found they no answer, made them wish to die
– Lie since in barrows out of harm.
You talk to your admirers every day
By silted harbours, derelict works,
In strangled orchards, and a silent comb
Where dogs have worried or a bird was shot.
Order the ill that they attack at once:
Visit the ports and interrupting
The leisurely conversation in the bar
Within a stone's throw of the sunlit water,
Beckon your chosen out. Summon
Those handsome and diseased youngsters, those women
Your solitary agents in the country parishes;
And mobilise the powerful forces latent
In soils that make the farmer brutal,
In the infected sinus, and the eyes of stoats.
Then, ready, start your rumour, soft
But horrifying in its capacity to disgust
Which, spreading magnified, shall come to be
A polar peril, a prodigious alarm,
Scattering the people, as torn-up paper
Rags and utensils in a sudden gust,
Seized with immeasurable neurotic dread.
Seekers after happiness, all who follow
The convolutions of your simple wish,
It is later than you think; nearer that day
Far other than that distant afternoon
Amid rustle of frocks and stamping feet
They gave the prizes to the ruined boys.
You cannot be away, then, no
Not though you pack to leave within an hour,
Escaping humming down arterial roads:
Escaping humming down arterial roads:
The date was yours; the prey to fugues,
Irregular breathing and alternate ascendancies
After some haunted migratory years
To disintegrate on an instant in the explosion of mania
Or lapse for ever into a classic fatigue.
– W.H. Auden (1930)