Thursday, May 2, 2024

Newman - Poiret - Carpioni - Millais

Marvin Newman
Coney Island I
1953
Kodachrome slide
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Marvin Newman
Coney Island II
1953
Kodachrome slide
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Marvin Newman
Coney Island IV
1953
Kodachrome slide
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Marvin Newman
Coney Island VI
1953
Kodachrome slide
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Paul Poiret
Dress
ca. 1911
silk with metallic trim
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Paul Poiret
Textile Pattern designed for Schumacher
ca. 1929-30
silkscreen-printed cotton
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Atelier Martine
Textile Samples produced for Paul Poiret
ca. 1910
block-printed silk
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Atelier Martine
Textile Samples produced for Paul Poiret
ca. 1910
block-printed silk
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Giulio Carpioni
The Kingdom of Hypnos
ca. 1660-65
oil on canvas
Yale University Art Gallery

Giulio Carpioni
Two Draped Figures
(old man and youth)
before 1678
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Giulio Carpioni
Infant St John the Baptist
paying Homage to the Christ Child

before 1678
etching
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Giulio Carpioni after Agostino Carracci
Holy Family
before 1678
etching
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

John Everett Millais
Illustration to Mr Vandyke Brown and his Lay Figure
1865
wood-engraving
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

John Everett Millais
Woman reclining on Bed
ca. 1858
wood-engraving
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

John Everett Millais
Winter Fuel
1873
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

John Everett Millais
Waterfall
1853
oil on panel
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

from The Sea and the Mirror

Ferdinando:

Flesh, fair, unique, and you, warm secret that my kiss
Follows into meaning Miranda, solitude
Where my omissions are, still possible, still good,
Dear Other at all times, retained as I do this,

From moment to moment as you enrich them so
Inherit me, my cause, as I would cause you now
With mine your sudden joy, two wonders as one vow
Pre-empting all, here, there, for ever, long ago.

I would smile at no other promise than touch, taste, sight,
Were there not, my enough, my exaltation, to bless
As world is offered world, as I hear it to-night

Pleading with ours for us, another tenderness
That neither without either could or would possess,
The Right Required Time, The Real Right Place, O Light.

     One bed is empty, Prospero,
          My person is my own;
     Hot Ferdinand will never know
     The flame with which Antonio
          Burns in the dark alone.

– W.H. Auden (1942-44)