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| Romek Árpád Brass and Glass ca. 1935 oil on canvas Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Gerard Chowne Roses 1904 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff, Wales |
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| Francis Cadell The Green Bottle ca. 1925 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Norman Douglas Hutchinson Lilies and Tulips 1989 tempera on paper Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
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| Kathleen Edith Lewis Bottles ca. 1950 oil on canvas New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester |
from Plurality
Man is surely mad with discontent, he is hurled
By lovely hopes or bad dreams against the world,
Raising a frail scaffold in never-ending flux,
Stubbornly when baffled fumbling the stubborn crux
And so he must continue, raiding the abyss
With aching bones and sinew, conscious of things amiss,
Conscious of guilt and vast inadequacy and the sick
Ego and the broken past and the clock that goes too quick,
Conscious of waste of labour, conscious of spite and hate,
Of dissension with his neighbour, of beggars at the gate,
But conscious also of love and the joy of things and the power
Of going beyond and above the limits of the lagging hour,
Conscious of sunlight, conscious of death's inveigling touch,
Not completely conscious but partly – and that is much.
– Louis MacNeice (1940)
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| Samuel Peploe Peonies ca. 1900-1905 oil on panel Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art |
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| Stanley Cursiter A Glass of Milk 1923 oil on canvas City Art Centre, Edinburgh |
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| Édouard Vuillard Roses in a Glass Vase ca. 1919 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Edgar Herbert Thomas Flowers in a Globe Vase 1919 oil on cardboard Scolton Manor, Pembrokeshire, Wales |
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| Camille Pissarro Still Life with Apples and Pitcher 1872 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Édouard Manet Moss Roses in a Vase 1882 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Still Life with Water Glass ca. 1760 oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Giovanni Paolo Spadino Peaches and Pears in a Glass Bowl ca. 1690 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Jan Davidsz de Heem Flowers in a Glass Vase ca. 1650-83 oil on copper Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Johannes Vermeer The Glass of Wine ca. 1661 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |