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| Vincent van Gogh Self Portrait as Jean Valjean from Les Misérables and with portrait of Émile Bernard 1888 oil on canvas Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
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| Vincent van Gogh Self Portrait as a Painter 1887-88 oil on canvas Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
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| Vincent van Gogh Portrait of the Artist's Mother 1888 oil on canvas (after a photograph) Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Vincent van Gogh Head of Theo van Gogh 1887 watercolor and colored chalk on paper Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
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| Anthony van Dyck Apostle Philip ca. 1619-21 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anthony van Dyck Portrait of a Woman ca. 1638-40 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Anthony van Dyck Portrait of a Woman 1618 oil on panel Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Anthony van Dyck Prince Charles Louis and Prince Rupert of the Palatinate (nephews of Charles I) ca. 1637-38 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Danila Vassilieff Devil in the Garden 1955 oil on board Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia |
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| Danila Vassilieff Fairytale Study Pair – Shipwreck 1949 gouache on paper National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Danila Vassilieff Mutiny on the Bounty 1950 oil on board Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia |
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| Danila Vassilieff Two Figures for a Sculpture ca. 1952 gouache on paper Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia |
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| Paolo Veronese Baptism of Christ ca. 1550-60 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Paolo Veronese Bathsheba at her Bath, addressed by King David's Envoy ca. 1575 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Paolo Veronese Esther before Ahasuerus ca. 1555 oil on canvas Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Paolo Veronese Penitent Magdalen ca. 1565-70 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
from Part Six of The Age of Anxiety
Quant sang:
The Laurentian Landshield was ruthlessly gerrymandered,
And there was a terrible tussle over the Tethys Ocean;
Commentators broadcast by the courtesy of a shaving-cream
Blow by blow the whole debate on the Peninsulas.
Malin thought:
Both professor and prophet depress,
For vision and longer view
Agree on predicting a day
Of convulsion and vast evil,
When the Cold Societies clash
Or the mosses are set in motion
To overrun the earth,
And the great brain which began
With lucid dialectics
Ends in a horrid madness.
And there was a terrible tussle over the Tethys Ocean;
Commentators broadcast by the courtesy of a shaving-cream
Blow by blow the whole debate on the Peninsulas.
Malin thought:
Both professor and prophet depress,
For vision and longer view
Agree on predicting a day
Of convulsion and vast evil,
When the Cold Societies clash
Or the mosses are set in motion
To overrun the earth,
And the great brain which began
With lucid dialectics
Ends in a horrid madness.
Quant sang:
But there were some sensible settlements in the sub-committees:
But there were some sensible settlements in the sub-committees:
The Duodecimal System was adopted unanimously,
The price of obsidian pegged for a decade,
Technicians sent north to get nitrogen from the ice-cap.
The price of obsidian pegged for a decade,
Technicians sent north to get nitrogen from the ice-cap.
Malin thought:
Yet the noble despair of the poets
Is nothing of the sort; it is silly
To refuse the tasks of time
And, overlooking our lives,
Cry – "Miserable wicked me,
How interesting I am."
We would rather be ruined than changed,
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.
Yet the noble despair of the poets
Is nothing of the sort; it is silly
To refuse the tasks of time
And, overlooking our lives,
Cry – "Miserable wicked me,
How interesting I am."
We would rather be ruined than changed,
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.
Quant sang:
Outside these decisions the cycle of Nature
Revolved as usual, and voluble sages
Preached from park-benches to passing fornicators
A Confucian faith in the Functional Society.
Malin thought:
We're quite in the dark: we do not
Know the connection between
The clock we are bound to obey
And the miracle we must not despair of;
We simply cannot conceive
With any feelings we have
How the raging lion is to lime
With the yearning unicorn;
Outside these decisions the cycle of Nature
Revolved as usual, and voluble sages
Preached from park-benches to passing fornicators
A Confucian faith in the Functional Society.
Malin thought:
We're quite in the dark: we do not
Know the connection between
The clock we are bound to obey
And the miracle we must not despair of;
We simply cannot conceive
With any feelings we have
How the raging lion is to lime
With the yearning unicorn;
Nor shall we, till total shipwreck
Deprive us of our persons.
Deprive us of our persons.
– W.H. Auden (1944-46)