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| Maurice Denis Fountain at Villa Medici, Rome 1904 oil on board Indianapolis Museum of Art |
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| Henri Matisse The Terrace, Saint-Tropez 1904 oil on canvas Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
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| Karl Mediz Académie 1904 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Friedrich Viktor Spitzer Portrait of painter Ferdinand Hodler 1904 photogravure Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Pharaon de Winter Self Portrait 1904 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
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| Eugène Atget Bosquet de l'Arc de Triomphe, Versailles 1904 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Eugène Atget Le Buffet, Grand Trianon, Versailles 1905 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Emma Barton Study 1905 photogravure Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| William-Adolphe Bouguereau Dans les Bois 1905 oil on canvas Frye Art Museum, Seattle |
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| Karoly Jozsa Portrait of artist Adolph Menzel 1905 woodcut Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Aristide Maillol Study for La Mediterranée 1905 bronze Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| Paula Modersohn-Becker Portrait of sculptor Clara Rilke Westhoff 1905 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Odilon Redon Chariot of Apollo 1905 oil on panel Clemens Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany |
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| Carl Schmoll von Eisenwerth The Walk 1905 oil on canvas Kunsthalle Mannheim |
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| John Sloan Turning Out the Light 1905 etching Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Édouard Vuillard Bouquet 1905 oil on board Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
from The Rock
III
Forms of the Rock in a Night-Hymn
The rock is the gray particular of man's life,
The stone from which he rises, up – and – ho,
The step to the bleaker depths of his descents . . .
The rock is the stern particular of the air,
The mirror of the planets, one by one,
But through man's eye, their silent rhapsodist,
Turquoise the rock, at odious evening bright
With redness that sticks fast to evil dreams;
The difficult rightness of half-risen day.
The rock is the habitation of the whole,
Its strength and measure, that which is near, point A
In a perspective that begins again
At B: the origin of the mango's rind.
It is the rock where tranquil must adduce
Its tranquil self, the main of things, the mind,
The starting point of the human and the end,
That in which space itself is contained, the gate
To the enclosure, day, the things illumined
By day, night and that which night illumines,
Night and its midnight-minting fragrances,
Night's hymn of the rock, as in a vivid sleep.
– Wallace Stevens (1954)