Sunday, November 10, 2024

Rembrandt - Stradanus - Kandinsky - Westerik

Rembrandt
Jacob blessing Ephraim and Manasseh
1656
oil on canvas
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Rembrandt
Portrait of Petronella Buys
1635
oil on panel
Leiden Collection, New York

Rembrandt
Risen Christ
1661
oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Rembrandt
Study for one of the Syndics - Volkert Jansz
ca. 1662
drawing
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Johannes Stradanus
Ulysses and Aeolus at the Cave of the Winds
ca. 1600-1605
drawing
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Johannes Stradanus
Ulysses and Companions blinding Polyphemus
ca. 1600-1605
drawing
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Johannes Stradanus
Ulysses and the Cattle of Helios
ca. 1600-1605
drawing
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Johannes Stradanus
Ulysses at the Entrance to Hades
ca. 1600-1605
drawing
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Wassily Kandinsky
Ergänztes Braun
1935
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Wassily Kandinsky
Large Study
1914
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Wassily Kandinsky
Strahlenlinien
1927
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Wassily Kandinsky
Sunday (Old Russia)
1904
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Co Westerik
Girl with Hair in the Water
1982
oil and tempera on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Co Westerik
Gramophone Player
1971
oil and tempera on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Co Westerik
Angèle Vandenberg
1945-46
drawing
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Co Westerik
Hens at work
1947
drawing
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

For Jane Myers

Sap rises from the sodden ditch
and glues two green ears to the dead
birch twig. Perilous beauty –
and already Jane is digging out
her colored tennis shoes,
one mauve, one yellow, like large crocuses.

And by the laundromat
the Bartletts in their tidy yard –

as though it were not
wearying, wearying

to hear in the bushes 
the mild harping of the breeze,
the daffodils flocking and honking –

Look how the bluet falls apart, mud
pockets the seed.
Months, years, then the dull blade of the wind.
It is spring! We are going to die!

And now April raises up her plaque of flowers
and the heart
expands to admit its adversary.

– Louise Glück (1975)