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| Henri Matisse Porte Fenêtre à Collioure 1914 oil on canvas Centre Pompidou, Paris |
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| David Bomberg The Tragedians 1919 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| M. Gluck Léonide Massine waiting for his cue to go on stage in On with the Dance 1925 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Kristians Tonny After van Eyck (Gertrude Stein) ca. 1930-36 tempera on masonite Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Robert Motherwell Wall Painting with Stripes 1944 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
I
When did I learn the word "I"?
What a mistake. For some,
it may be a placeholder,
for me it's a contagion.
For some, it's a thin line, a bare wisp,
just enough to be somewhere
among the gorgeous troublesome you's.
For me, it's a thorn, a spike, its slimness
a deceit, camouflaged like a stick insect:
touch it and it becomes what it is:
ravenous slit, vertical cut, little boy
standing upright in his white
communion suit and black secret.
– Michael Ryan (2013)
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| Yayoi Kusama Column (Help) 1953 tempera on paper Brooklyn Museum |
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| Dorothy Brett Massacre in the Canyon of Death: Vision of the Sun God 1958 oil on board Tate Modern, London |
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| Robert Colquhoun Dancers Rehearsing 1958 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Keith Vaughan Assembly of Figures VIII 1964 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Myles Murphy Figure with Yellow Foreground 1974 oil on canvas Tate Modern, London |
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| John Golding D VIII (SK) 1975 acrylic on cotton duck British Council Collection, London |
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| Bridget Riley Rose Return 1985 oil on linen Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayrshire, Scotland |
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| Colin Smith Wardrobe III ca. 1992 oil on canvas Alfred East Art Gallery, Kettering, Northamptonshire |
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| David Leapman Slowburn Escort 1992 acrylic on canvas Southbank Centre, London |
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| Ian Kirkwood Violet Blue and Orange 2001 oil on canvas Glyndŵr University, Wrexham, Wales |