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| Arthur Boyd Potter looking at a Chardin print 1969 oil on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Arthur Boyd River Bank and Four Rocks 1993 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Arthur Boyd Costume Design for the Furies in Royal Ballet production of Elektra 1963 enamel and ink on paper National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Arthur Boyd Costume Design for the Furies in Royal Ballet production of Elektra 1963 drawing National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Georg Baselitz Bicycle Rider 1982 linocut National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Georg Baselitz Aurora 2005-2006 hand-colored linocut National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Georg Baselitz Akt Elke III 1976 oil on canvas Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Georg Baselitz Oberon (Remix) 2005 oil on canvas Hall Collection, Schloss Derneburg, Germany |
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| Anne Ferran Series 1-38, no. 5 2003 pigment print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Anne Ferran Series 1-38, no. 7 2003 pigment print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Anne Ferran Series 1-38, no. 13 2003 pigment print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Anne Ferran Series 1-38, no. 18 2003 pigment print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Tony Ayres Vogue Man 1982 screenprint National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Tony Ayres Skeleton 1982 screenprint National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Tony Ayres The Image of Desire 1985 screenprint (exhibition poster) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Tony Ayres Gay Radio 2XX 1982 screenprint National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Sonnets from China
V
His care-free swagger was a fine invention:
Life was too slow, too regular, too grave.
With horse and sword he drew the girls' attention,
A conquering hero, bountiful and brave,
To whom teen-agers looked for liberation:
At his command they left behind their mothers,
Their wits were sharpened by the long migration,
His camp-fires taught them all the horde were brothers.
Till what he came to do was done: unwanted,
Grown seedy, paunchy, pouchy, disappointed,
He took to drink to screw his nerves to murder,
Or sat in offices and stole,
Boomed at his children about Law and Order,
And hated life with heart and soul.
– W.H. Auden (1938)