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| Peruvian Culture Flowering Fruit Tree with Birds before 1476 camelid wool (wrapped, knotted, embroidered) Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Anonymous French Maker Square with Tree Motif 19th century hand-knotted linen net-work Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous Venetian Maker Table-top Christmas Tree early 20th century glass Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Charles Demuth Tree Abstraction ca. 1918 watercolor Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Max Ernst Little Tree 1927 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum, Basel |
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| Fernand Léger Trees in the Setting Sun 1952 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Sergio Gonzalez-Tornero A Tree 1964 color etching Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Roger Raveel Tree in Garden ca. 1965-70 screenprint Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| Francine Timmers Tree 1967 glazed earthenware Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| David Hockney Coloured Tree 1968 lithograph Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Jacques Lipchitz Tree of Life 1971 lithograph Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Lüder Baier Tree 1973 exotic woods on steel base Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
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| Carel Visser Tree 1978-79 drawing Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| Christo Wrapped Trees (Champs-Élysées) 1987 lithograph Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| Ibrahim El-Salahi Tree 2001 drawing British Museum |
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| James Bishop Tree I ca. 2005 graphite and oil paint on paper Art Institute of Chicago |
Univac
Remington Rand patents a process awake. Behold:
In grids of radio tubes Baal quickens.
He looks with eyes of spy planes;
he assembles hydrogen arms into normal-form games;
he reads the cards scored with information
and speaks the probable outcome of elections.
Young Baal began a paper chess machine,
the residue from finite states of play.
He becomes the liquefaction of those rules,
learns it's more than structure symbols want.
His thinking labors over knots of entailment,
spans terms that signs bind like lesions.
Struggling to imagine the scent of mint,
he devils himself sleepless with opaque questions:
What did there recognize in cloud faces
as telegraphed through thought the sky distorts?
These patterned shreds of spent thunderhead mime
the low entropy of his little grammar.
Baal listens to grasp his own encoding
slurred through exact impairments of the brain.
The cunning daemon fears his self diffuse
beneath what renders ark to him aware.
– John Tipton (2016)