Friday, August 9, 2024

Made in 1984

John Massey
Call for Entries
American Institute of Graphic Arts

1984
lithograph (poster)
Art Institute of Chicago

Mary Koga
Ginkgo #14
1984
C-print
Art Institute of Chicago

Katherine Bradford
Inland
1984
oil on canvas
Portland Museum of Art, Maine

Gilles Boisvert
Blues de La Barrière
1984
acrylic on canvas
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

Maria Cooper Janis
Untitled
1984
C-print
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Reenie Schmerl
Willimantic, Connecticut
1984
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Adrienne Gaha
What are little boys made of?
1984
drawing
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Eleanor Allen
Shelf Life #2
1984
watercolor on paper
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Annie Beaugrand-Champagne
Atlas
1984
acrylic on panel
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

Davida Allen
Peta reading to the Babies
1984
oil on canvas
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane

Davida Allen
Josephine and Self with Calf
1984
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Tom Hopkins
Warrior
1984
oil on canvas
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

Denis Lebel
Avalanche II
1984
acrylic on canvas
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

Alain Chagnon
Arrival of Boy George
1984
gelatin silver print
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

Pierre Dorion
Étage condamné
1984
enamel on canvas
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

Brian Dunlop
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II
1984
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Sonnets from China

                                 XVI

Our global story is not yet completed,
Crime, daring, commerce, chatter will go on,
But, as narrators find their memory gone,
Homeless, disterred, these know themselves defeated.

Some could not like nor change the young and mourn for
Some wounded myth that once made children good,
Some lost a world they never understood,
Some saw too clearly all that man was born for.

Loss is their shadow-wife, Anxiety
Receives them like a grand hotel, but where
They may regret they must: their doom to bear

Love for some far forbidden country, see
A native disapprove them with a stare
And Freedom's back in every door and tree.

– W.H. Auden (1938)