Sunday, August 24, 2025

Expectedness (Sixties)

Ron Kroutel
Twenty-Seven Part Profile
ca. 1967
acrylic on canvas
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia


Serge Lemoyne
Composition IV
1962
acrylic on panel
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

Roy Lichtenstein
4th New York Film Festival
1966
screenprint (poster)
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Kenneth Lochhead
Ascending Color
1964
acrylic on canvas
Beaverbrook Ary Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Kenneth Lochhead
Soft White Repose
1966
acrylic on canvas
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario

Helen Lundeberg
Arcanum #2
1968
acrylic on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Helen Lundeberg
Blue Sky
1966
acrylic on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Helen Lundeberg
Looking Through
1964
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Knox Martin
Mulberry Field
1964
oil paint and enamel on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Alice Trumbull Mason
Paradox #5
1969
oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Richard McLean
Still Life with Black Jockey
1969
oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Tomoko Miho
Partnership for Change - New York Model Cities
1968
offset-lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

André Minaux
Atelier Mourlot - New York
ca. 1967
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Claes Oldenburg
7 Up
1961
painted plaster
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Claes Oldenburg
Soft Scissors
1968
lithograph
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Gordon Onslow-Ford
Who Lives
1962
acrylic on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Toshinobu Onosato
Painting A
1961-62
oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

ODE – A name used in English with great laxity, and not perhaps to be tied down too much without loss.  The word itself, in Greek, means simply a song.  But the choric odes of the Greek dramatists, and the non-dramatic odes of Pindar, being couched in a peculiar form – irregular at first sight, but exactly correspondent when examined – have created a certain tendency to restrict the term ode, sometimes with the epithet "regular," to things similar in English (see, in list of poets, Cowley, Congreve, Gray).  On the other hand, the Latins – especially Horace, whose influence has been even wider – extend the term to pieces in short, obviously regular stanzas identically repeated, and the majority of English odes are of this kind.

– George Saintsbury, from Historical Manual of English Prosody (1910)