Monday, November 2, 2026

Reduce

Johs Rian
Card Players
1947
watercolor on paper
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Karl Anton Reichel
Portrait of a Woman
1909
color woodblock print
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Giorgio Morandi
Still Life
1939
oil on canvas
Musée de Grenoble

Georg Schrimpf
Still Life
1929
oil on canvas
Lenbachhaus, Munich

Sascha Schneider
Bacchante
1920
watercolor on paper
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Werner Heldt
Still Life
1950
oil on canvas
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Francis Picabia
The Lunatic
1948
oil on panel
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Miriam Cahn
Untitled
2018
oil on canvas
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern

Jost Amman
Venus and Cupid
ca. 1570
chiaroscuro woodcut
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Moriz Jung
Conversation between Mutes
ca. 1905-1915
lithograph
(postcard produced by Wiener Werkstätte)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Josse van Gietleughen after Hubertus Goltzius
Emperor Maximus
ca. 1545-55
chiaroscuro woodcut
(book illustration - Roman coin)
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Ingrid Årfelt-Svalander
Antiquities
ca. 1952
linocut
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Thomas Theodor Heine
Art Exhibition of the Berlin Secession
1912
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Anonymous French Artist
En Mission au Pays des Fauves
(film series)
1922
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Alexander Apóstol
Avenida Caracas, Bogotá #5
2006
digital print
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern

Sergio Belinchón
Natural History 47
2006
inkjet print
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern

from The Man with the Blue Guitar 

Poetry is the subject of the poem,
From this the poem issues and

To this returns. Between the two,
Between issue and return, there is

An absence in reality,
Things as they are. Or so we say,

But are these separate? Is it
An absence for the poem, which acquires

Its true appearance there, sun's green,
Cloud's red, earth feeling, sky that thinks?

From these it takes. Perhaps it gives,
In the universal intercourse. 

– Wallace Stevens (1937)