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| Michael Rothenstein In Between 1963 oil paint on wood Tate Gallery |
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| Joe Tilson Vox Box 1963 oil paint on wood Tate Gallery |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay Starlit Waters 1967 painted wood and nylon net Tate Gallery |
Carnal and Spiritual Love
Swift through the eyes unto the heart within
all lovely forms that thrall our spirit stray;
so smooth and broad and open is the way
that thousands and not hundreds enter in.
Burdened with scruples and weighed down with sin,
these mortal beauties fill me with dismay;
nor find I one that doth not strive to stay
my soul on transient joy, or lets me win
the heaven I yearn for. Lo, when erring love –
who fills the world, howe'er his power we shun,
else were the world a grave and we undone –
assails the soul, if grace refuse to fan
our purged desires and make them soar above,
what grief it were to have been born a man!
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| Eva Hesse Tomorrow's Apples (5 in White) 1965 enamel, gouache, varnish, cord and papier-mâché on board Tate Gallery |
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| Francisco Farreras No. 139 1961 painted paper collage on wood Tate Gallery |
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| E.L.T. Mesens Mouvement Immobile II 1960 acrylic paint and paper on board Tate Gallery |
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| Jannis Kounellis Untitled 1960 polyvinyl acetate paint and tempera on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Jack Smith Written Activity No. 7 1969 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| John Armstrong Tocsin III 1967 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Stuart Brisley Untitled ca. 1960 roofing underlay, roofing felt, tarpaulin, canvas sacking, bitumin and sand on hardboard Tate Gallery |
Love is a Refiner's Fire
It is with fire that blacksmiths iron subdue
unto fair form, the image of their thought:
nor without fire hath any artist wrought
gold to its utmost purity of hue.
Nay, nor the unmatched phoenix lives anew,
unless she burn: if then I am distraught
by fire, I may to better life be brought
like those whom death restores nor years undo.
The fire whereof I speak, is my great cheer;
such power it hath to renovate and raise
me who was almost numbered with the dead;
and since by nature fire doth find its sphere
soaring aloft, and I am all ablaze,
heavenward with it my flight must needs be sped.
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| Hans Hartung T1963-R6 1963 acrylic paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| William Tucker Margin II 1963 painted aluminum Tate Gallery |
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| Michael Buthe White Painting 1969 wood, cotton, gesso and steel Tate Gallery |
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| Anselm Kiefer The starry heavens above us and the moral law within 1969-2010 paint on photograph Tate Gallery, owned jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland |
– sonnets by Michelangelo Buonnaroti (1475-1564), as translated by John Addington Symonds (1840-1893)