Affinities

Atelier Van Lieshout
Operation
2007
polyester
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Atelier Van Lieshout
The Heart
2002
screenprint
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Eugène Atget
Passage Saint-Pierre, Paris
ca. 1900
albumen silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Eugène Atget
Porte, rue de l'Orangerie, Versailles
ca. 1910
albumen silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art 

Bartolomeo Veneto
Portrait of a Man
before 1531
oil on panel
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Bartolomeo Veneto
Portrait of a Woman
1530
oil on panel
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego

Max Beckmann
Corner of the Studio
1950
oil on canvas
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Max Beckmann
Still Life with Studio Window
1931
oil on canvas
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Jacques Blanchard
Mars and the Vestal Virgin
ca. 1637-38
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Jacques Blanchard
Semele and Jupiter
ca. 1632
oil on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art

Augustus John
Canadian Soldier
1918
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Augustus John
Reverie (Dorelia in Cornwall)
ca. 1914
oil on panel
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Oskar Kokoschka
Double Portrait of Hans Mardersteig and Carl Georg Heise
1919
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Oskar Kokoschka
Portrait of Frau Reuther
ca. 1921
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Gotthardt Kuehl
Blue Room
ca. 1900
oil on panel
Alte Nationalgalerie,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Gotthardt Kuehl
In the Orphanage
ca. 1890
oil on panel
Kunsthalle Bremen

from Orfeo

     "J'ai perdu mon Eurydice . . ."

I have lost my Eurydice,
I have lost my lover,
and suddenly I am speaking French
and it seems to me I have never been in better voice;
it seems these songs
are songs of a high order.

And it seems one is somehow expected to apologize
for being an artist,
as though it were not entirely human to notice these fine points.

– Louise Glück (1999)