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| Ernest Procter Night and Evening ca. 1930 oil on canvas Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
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| Frank Dicksee Hesperia (Personification of Evening) 1887 oil on canvas Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Lancashire |
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| Newton Herbert Penprase The Dawn of a New Day - Progress ca. 1930 oil on canvas Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Joseph Noel Paton The Choice ca. 1885-86 oil on panel Pittencrieff House Museum, Dumfermline, Fife, Scotland |
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| Thomas Cole The Titan's Goblet 1833 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Edward Burne-Jones The Car of Love (Love's Wayfaring) ca. 1891-98 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| William Etty Allegorical Study before 1849 oil on canvas Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
Two Nudes
I was working in a bookstore and as an antidote to the
twin torments of exhaustion and boredom, one day I
went with a friend on a walking tour. We made it as far
as Berlin and there I met the man I would move with to
a boarding house, then to furnished rooms in the flat of
a civil servant, and from there one morning in January
to the Registry to be married. Afterward we moved to a
studio apartment and two years later to the school where
boys returning from the war would remove their collars
and sew them back on with red thread to demonstrate
the end of their allegiance to the cruel and fastidious
past. Everyone wanted to be launched into a place from
which you could look back and ask whether the red was
also meant to enact spilled blood. You could say so, but
only if you want to insist that history's minutia is best
read as allegory. The fact is, history didn't exist then.
Each day was a twenty-four hour stand-still on a bridge
from which we discretely looked into the distance,
hoping to catch sight of the future. It's near where you're
standing now. One day we were lying in the sun dressed
in nothing but our skin when a camera came by and
devoured us.
– Mary Jo Bang (2015)
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| Ludwig von Hofmann Zusammenbruch (The Crash) ca. 1918 oil on canvas New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester |
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| Mainie Jellett Allegorical Scene ca. 1925 oil on canvas Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Gustav Klimt Ancient Egypt 1891 pigment on plaster Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Frank Cadogan Cowper Vanity 1907 oil on panel Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| William Edward Frost Contemplation ca. 1850 oil on panel Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Arthur Hughes April Love 1855-56 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| Lawrence Gowing after Nicolas Poussin A Dance to the Music of Time 1948 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| Robert Medley after Nicolas Poussin The Arcadian Shepherds 1926 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |