Sunday, April 14, 2024

Atget - Luks - Rosa - Pulzone

Eugène Atget
Roses
ca. 1910
albumen print
Portland Museum of Art, Maine

Eugène Atget
Staircase in the Parc, Saint-Cloud
1924
albumen silver print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Eugène Atget
Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
1922
albumen silver print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Eugène Atget
Vase, Versailles
1905
albumen print
Art Institute of Chicago

George Luks
Nora Brady
ca. 1910
oil on canvas
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

George Luks
Pam
1929
oil on panel
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

George Luks
Portrait of a Man
before 1933
oil on canvas
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

George Luks
Untitled
ca. 1920-30
oil on canvas
Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia

Salvator Rosa
Harbor with Lighthouse and Ships
1641
oil on canvas
Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Salvator Rosa
Forge of Vulcan
before 1673
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Salvator Rosa
Diogenes casting away his Bowl
ca. 1661-62
etching
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Salvator Rosa
Glaucus and Scylla
ca. 1661
etching
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Scipione Pulzone (il Gaetano)
Presentation of the Virgin
ca. 1590
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Scipione Pulzone (il Gaetano)
Holy Family with St Elizabeth
and young St John the Baptist

ca. 1580
oil on canvas
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Scipione Pulzone (il Gaetano)
Christ carrying the Cross
ca. 1590
oil on canvas, mounted on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Scipione Pulzone (il Gaetano)
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1570-80
oil on canvas
National Museum, Warsaw

from Part Five of The Age of Anxiety

The others joined in chorus. Malin cried:

                            It is safe to endure:
     Each flat defect has found its solid
     Gift to shadow, each goal its unique
     Longing to lure, relatedness its
     Invariant base, since Venus has now
     Agreed so gladly to guarantee
     Plenty of water to the plants this year,
     Aid to the beasts, to all human demands
     Full satisfaction with fresh structures
     For crucial regions.

Quant cried:
                                      A kind word and
     A fatherly peak not far away
     For city orphans.

Then Rosetta again:
                                  Synchronized watches
     And a long lane with a lot of twists
     For both sexes.

And Emble:
                              Barns and shrubberies
     For game-playing gangs.

Quant:
                                              Grates full of logs and
     Hinterland homes for old proconsuls
     And pensioned pairs.

Emble: 
                                        Places of silence
     For real readers.

Rosetta:
                                 A room with a view
     For a shut-in-soul.

Malin:
                                   A shady walk
     There and back for a thinker or two.

Emble:
     A gentle jaunt for dejected nerves
     Over warm waters.

Rosetta:
                                     A wild party
     Every night for the outgoing classes.

– W.H. Auden (1944-46)