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| Odilon Redon Mystery ca. 1910 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
WHAT WOULD I DO
What would I do without this world faceless incurious
where to be lasts but an instant where every instant
spills in the void the ignorance of having been
without this wave where in the end
body and shadow together are engulfed
what would I do without this silence where the murmurs die
the pantings the frenzies towards succour towards love
without this sky that soars
above its ballast dust
what would I do what I did yesterday and the day before
peering out of my deadlight looking for another
wandering like me eddying far from all the living
in a convulsive space
among the voices voiceless
that throng my hiddenness
– Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
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| Egon Schiele Composition with three nudes 1910 drawing Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Ferdinand Hodler Woodcutter 1910 oil on canvas Ohara Museum of Art Kurashiki, Japan |
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| Gustav Klimt Death and Life ca. 1910-15 oil on canvas Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Henri Rousseau Meadowland 1910 oil on canvas Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo |
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| Otto Müller Three Nudes 1910 drawing, colored chalks Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Giovanni Giacometti Young Mother 1910 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Albin Egger-Lienz Lunch (The Soup, version II) 1910 oil on canvas Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Franz von Stuck The Dance ca. 1910 oil and tempera on cardboard Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
LATE MINOAN I
(EWERS OF HAGIA TRIADA)
Dolphins, octopi, fish
cool of linen, of reeds, of olive trees
trembling of the day in a color
joy of a line that still moves
and I dream of this hand among billions
of hands, astonished, happy –
and I don't know what, a pigment
that causes the soul to breathe,
that life sees, these things that
come to my fingers
and will die one more time –
– Lorand Gaspar (translated by Ronnie Scharfman)
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Seated Girl (Fränzi Fehrmann) ca. 1910-20 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Roger Fry Still-life with jug and eggs 1911 oil on panel Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Franz Marc Nudes under Trees 1911 oil on canvas Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Léon Bakst Preliminary study for the décor of the ballet Le Dieu bleu 1911 watercolor and gouache Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University |
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| Carl Fredrik Hill Landscape with Lion before 1911 crayon on paper Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden |