Thursday, May 30, 2024

Brash - Friend - Jones - Hockney

Barbara Brash
Butterflies I
ca. 1971
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Barbara Brash
Lighthouse
1959
screenprint
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Barbara Brash
Still Life
ca. 1953
linocut
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Barbara Brash
Sunspot I
1991
digital print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Donald Friend
Boy
1972
drawing
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Donald Friend
Running Figures
1965
lithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Donald Friend
Swimmers
1965
lithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Donald Friend
Sunbathers II
ca. 1970
watercolor and ink on paper
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Owen Jones
Grammar of Ornament - Greek
1856
chromolithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Owen Jones
Grammar of Ornament - Indian
1856
chromolithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Owen Jones
Grammar of Ornament - Italian
1856
chromolithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Owen Jones
Grammar of Ornament - Renaissance
1856
chromolithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

David Hockney
Two Pembroke Studio Chairs
1984-85
lithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

David Hockney
White Porcelain
1985-86
lithograph, etching and aquatint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

David Hockney
Rue de Seine
1972
etching and aquatint
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

David Hockney
Postcard of Richard Wagner with Glass of Water
1973
etching
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Few and Simple

Whenever you are thought, the mind
Amazes me with all the kind
Old such-and-such it says about you
As if I were the one that you
Attach unique importance to,
Not one who would but didn't get you.

Startling us both at certain hours,
The flesh that mind insists is ours,
Though I, for one, by now know better,
Gets ready for no-matter-what
As if it had forgotten that
What happens is another matter. 

Few as they are, these facts are all
The richest moment can recall,
However it may choose to group them,
And, simple as they look, enough
To make the most ingenious love
Think twice of trying to escape them.

– W.H. Auden (1944)