Showing posts with label collage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collage. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1973)

Frans Zwartjes
Rehearsal
1973
gelatin silver print
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Andy Warhol
Mao
1973
screenprint and acrylic paint
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina

Julian Trevelyan
Athletes
1973
etching and aquatint
Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia

George A. Tice
Interior, W. Milton Avenue, Rahway, NJ
1973
gelatin silver print
Dallas Museum of Art

Hans Krondahl for Katja of Sweden
Pacific
1973
screen-printed cotton fabric panel
Art Institute of Chicago

James Strombotne
Herman Hesse
1973
oil on canvas
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Frank Stella
Rozdol II
1973
felt, canvas, paint and cardboard on wood
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Larry Rivers
Untitled
1973
screenprint and lithograph
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Bridget Riley
Study for Painting
1973
gouache on paper
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

Clayton Pond
The Other Chair
1973
lithograph
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

David Plowden
La Crosse, Wisconsin
1973
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Kenneth Noland
Untitled
1973
screenprint
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Louise Nevelson
Untitled
1973
screenprint
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Lowell Nesbitt
Grey Shoes
1973
oil on canvas
Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia

Alice Neel
Dorothy Pearlstein
1973
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Robert Motherwell
Suchard on Orange #5
1973
acrylic paint and collage on board
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

The Epigoni

No use invoking Apollo in a case like theirs; 
The pleasure-loving gods had died in their chairs
And would not get up again, one of them, ever,
Though guttural tribes had crossed the Great River,
Roasting their dead and with no name for the yew;
No good expecting long-legged ancestors to
Return with long swords from pelagic paradises
(They would be left to their own devices,
Supposing they had some); no point pretending
One didn't foresee the probable ending
As dog-food, or landless, submerged, a slave:
Meanwhile, how should a cultured gentleman behave?
It would have been an excusable failing
Had they broken out into womanish wailing
Or, dramatising their doom, held forth
In sonorous clap-trap about death;
To their credit, a reader will only perceive
That the language they loved was coming to grief,
Expiring in preposterous mechanical tricks,
Epanaleptics, rhopalics, anacyclic acrostics:
To their lasting honor, the stuff they wrote
Can safely be spanked in a scholar's foot-note,
Called shallow by a mechanised generation to whom
Haphazard oracular grunts are profound wisdom.

– W.H. Auden (1955)

Sunday, September 6, 2026

Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1972)

Georg Baselitz
Fingermalerei - Birken
1972
oil on canvas
Hall Collection, Schloss Derneburg, Germany

Ely Bielutin
Untitled
1972
oil on canvas
Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina

Ilya Bolotowsky
Red Rectangle
1972
acrylic on canvas
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

William Christenberry
Cannon's Grocery
1972
C-print
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee

Joseph Cornell
Untitled (Derby Hat)
1972
paper collage with photogravure
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Jay DeFeo
Untitled
1972
gelatin silver print
Menil Collection, Houston

Equipo Realidad (art collective)
Home Sweet Home
1972
oil on canvas
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Spain

Richard Estes
Oriental Cuisine
1972
screenprint
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine

Lee Friedlander
Chrysanthemums at Flower Market, Paris
1972
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Elisabeth Frink
The Pardoner's Tale
(illustration to The Canterbury Tales)
1972
etching and aquatint
Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia

Sam Gilliam
Cordial I
1972
oil on canvas
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Nan Goldin
Christmas at The Other Side, Boston
1972
gelatin silver print
Portland Museum of Art, Maine

Jörg Immendorff
Pose These Questions to the Artists - Insist on Answers!
1972
distemper on canvas
Hall Collection, Schloss Derneburg, Germany

Alfred Jensen
The Ten Thousand Things
1972
oil on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art

Roy Lichtenstein
Still Life with Pitcher
1972
oil on canvas
Seattle Art Museum

Frank Lobdell
Untitled
(series, Dance)
1972
oil on paper
San Jose Museum of Art, California

The History of Science

All fables of adventure stress 
The need for courtesy and kindness:
Without the Helpers none can win
The flaxen-haired Princess.

They look the ones in need of aid,
Yet, thanks to them, the gentle-hearted
Third Brother beds the woken Queen,
While seniors who made

Cantankerous replies to crones
And dogs who begged to share their rations,
Must expiate their pride as daws
Or wind-swept bachelor stones.

Few of a sequel, though, have heard:
Uneasy pedagogues have censored
All written reference to a brother
Younger than the Third. 

Soft-spoken as New Moon this Fourth,
A Sun of gifts to all he met with,
But when advised "Go South for a while!",
Smiled "Thank You!" and turned North,

Trusting some map in his own head,
So never reached the goal intended
(His map, of course, was out) but blundered
On a wonderful instead,

A tower not circular but square,
A treasure not of gold but silver:
He kissed a shorter Sleeper's hand
And stroked her raven hair.

Dare sound Authority confess
That one can err his way to riches,
Win glory by mistake, his dear
Through sheer wrong-headedness?

– W.H. Auden (1955)

Thursday, September 3, 2026

Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1970)

Lou Stoumen
Berkeley
1970
gelatin silver print
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Garry Winogrand
Untitled (Man with Birds)
1970
gelatin silver print
Dallas Museum of Art

Kenneth Josephson
New York State
1970
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Leon Levinstein
Untitled
1970
gelatin silver print
Portland Museum of Art, Maine

Leonard Baskin
Daggoo
(character in Moby Dick)
1970
lithograph
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington State

Frank Bowling
Middle Passage
1970
acrylic and aerosol paint and crayon on canvas
Menil Collection, Houston

John Clem Clarke
Untitled (Caravaggio Pastiche)
1970
lithograph
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

Peter Dean
Evil Eye Drive-In
1970
oil on canvas
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

José Guerrero
Black Arches
1970
oil on canvas
Museo de Bellas Artes de Granada, Spain

Allen Harrill
Six Aligned (Plunge Series)
1970
acrylic on canvas
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Asger Jorn
Sulla Strada II
1970
lithograph
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Luigi Lucioni
Arrangement in Blue
1970
oil on canvas
Denver Art Museum

Conrad Marca-Relli
Summer Suite
1970
paper and textile collage on panel
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

Jules Olitski
Mauve/Blue with Green and Yellow
1970
screenprint
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Thomas Algernon Weir
Parker Ranch
1970
cyanotype
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Fred Dasch
Flea Market
1970
C-print
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington State

from Homage to Clio

Our hill has made its submission and the green
     Swept on into the north: around me,
From morning to night, flowers duel incessantly,
     Color against color, in combats

Which they all win, and at any hour from some point else
     May come another tribal outcry
Of a new generation of birds who chirp,
     Not for effect but because chirping

Is the thing to do. More lives than I perceive
     Are aware of mine this May morning
As I sit reading a book, sharper senses
     Keep watch on an inedible patch

Of unsatisfactory smell, unsafe as
     So many areas are: to observation
My book is dead, and by observations they live
     In space, as unaware of silence

As Provocative Aphrodite or her twin,
     Virago Artemis, the Tall Sisters
Whose subjects they are. That is why, in their Dual Realm,
     Banalities can be beautiful,

Why nothing is too big or too small or the wrong
     Color, and the roar of an earthquake
Rearranging the whispers of streams a loud sound
     Not a din: but we, at haphazard

And unseasonably, are brought face to face
     By ones, Clio, with your silence. After that
Nothing is easy. We may dream as we wish
     Of phallic pillar or navel-stone

With twelve nymphs twirling about it, but pictures
     Are no help: your silence already is there
Between us and any magical centre
     Where things are taken in hand. Besides,

Are we so sorry? Woken at sun-up to hear
     A cock pronouncing himself himself
Though all his sons had been castrated and eaten,
     I was glad I could be unhappy: if

I don't know how I shall manage, at least I know
     The beast-with-two-backs may be a species
Evenly distributed but Mum and Dad
     Were not two other people. To visit

The grave of a friend, to make an ugly scene,
     To count the loves one has grown out of,
Is not nice, but to chirp like a tearless bird,
     As though no one dies in particular

And gossip were never true, unthinkable:
     If it were, forgiveness would be no use,
One-eye-for-one would be just and the innocent
    Would not have to suffer.

– W.H. Auden (1955)

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Aqueous

James Tissot
Seated Woman
1873
watercolor and gouache on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford


Amedeo Modigliani
Caryatid
1914
gouache and ink on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Charles Demuth
Vaudeville Musicians
1917
watercolor on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Henri-Eugène Callot
Surf and Rocks
ca. 1920
gouache on paper
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Georges Valmier
Fugue
1920
watercolor, gouache, ink and collage on paper
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Alexandra Exter
Composition
ca. 1921
gouache on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Jacques Lipchitz
Study for Sacrifice
ca. 1947
watercolor and gouache on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Albert Swinden
Abstraction
1952
gouache on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Béla Kádár
Music
before 1955
gouache on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Jean-Paul Riopelle
Untitled
1955
watercolor, gouache and ink on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Georges Noël
La Flèche
1963
gouache on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Alexander Calder
Harlequin's Dream
1963
gouache on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Geneviève Claisse
No.3 ADN (Jaune, Noir, Blanc)
1971
gouache on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

A.R. Penck
Untitled
1980
gouache on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Anna Andreeva
Moscow Olympics
1980
gouache on paper (design for children's textile)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Mary Heilmann
Big Bill
1987
gouache and acrylic on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Amy Sillman
Somewhere through although sometimes
1997
gouache on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

from The Last Man

SCENE: the abyss of Space: Ambrosius and Cynthia in the car, returning to the earth

Ambrosius:  O what a deep delight it is to cleave,
                    Out-darting thought, above all sight and sound,
                    And sweep the ceiling of the universe,
                    Thus with our locks!  How it does mad the heart,
                    How dances it along the living veins,
                    Like hot and steaming wine!  How my eyes ache
                    With gazing on its mighty vacancy!

– Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1825)