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| Cindy Sherman Untitled 1985 C-print Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Frank Stella Gobba, Zoppa e Collotorto 1985 painted magnesium and aluminum Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Gerhard Richter Station (577-2) 1985 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Doreen Minuto A Moment in Time 1985 oil on board (illustration for paperback cover) New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
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| Anne Noggle Carol and Arnold Jolles 1985 gelatin silver print Tacoma Art Museum, Washington State |
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| Jedd Garet Wondrous Orbs of Life 1985 lithograph Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Richard Slee Flower 1985 glazed earthenware Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Alain Kirili Generations 1985 forged and painted iron Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas |
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| Dianne Blell Eros & Psyche 1985 C-print New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
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| Emilio Sánchez Looking West from My Studio 1985 oil on canvas Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia |
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| Emilio Sánchez Lauderdale Hotel 1985 oil on canvas NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| Francis Dennis Ramsay Untitled 1985 tempera on panel Frye Art Museum, Seattle |
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| Julian Schnabel A Boy From Naples 1985 aquatint, etching and lithograph Dallas Museum of Art |
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| John Fraser Page 196 1985 collage on paper McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
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| Ad Gerritsen In Reference to the Book of Wisdom II 1985 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| William Hawkins Perkins Mansion 1985 enamel on board Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
from Bucolics
Sylvan meant savage in those primal woods
Piero di Cosimo so loved to draw,
Where nudes, bears, lions, sows with women's heads,
Mounted and murdered and ate each other raw,
Nor thought the lightning-kindled bush to tame
But, flabbergasted, fled the useful flame.
Reduced in patches, owned by hunting squires,
Of villages with ovens and a stocks,
They whispered still of most unsocial fires,
Though Crown and Mitre warned their silly flocks
The pasture's humdrum rhythms to approve
And to abhor the licence of the grove.
Guilty intention still looks for a hotel
That wants no details and surrenders none;
A wood is that, and throws in charm as well,
And many a semi-innocent, undone,
Has blamed its nightingales who round the deed
Sang with such sweetness of a happy greed.
Those birds, of course, did nothing of the sort,
And, as for sylvan nature, if you take
A snapshot at a picnic, O how short
And lower-ordery the Gang will look
By those vast lives that never took another
And are not scared of gods, ghosts, or stepmother.
– W.H. Auden (1952)