Elizabeth Matheson Fontainebleau 1991 gelatin silver print North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
Michel Lawrence Portrait of artist Hilarie Mais 1991 gelatin silver print Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia |
Daniel Sprick My Metaphysical Adventure 1991 oil on canvas Denver Art Museum |
Louise Mercure Paysage Mauve 1991 acrylic and collage on panel Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec |
Russell Yuristy 10 Salmon 1991 acrylic on canvas Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario |
Davida Allen Close to the Bone 1991 lithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Napoleon Brousseau Untitled (Anonymous Artistic Archbishops) 1991 mixed media and photo-collage on paper Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
Napoleon Brousseau Untitled (Caged Landscape Lightning) 1991 mixed media and photo-collage on paper Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
Anonymous Australia Artist Celebrating Change 1991 screenprint (poster) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
John Baldessari Six Colorful Gags 1991 color aquatint and photogravure New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
César Domela Relief no. 302 1991 assemblage (painted wood, copper, plexiglas) Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
Pierre Gauvreau Sans Titre 1991 acrylic on canvas Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec |
Philip Treacy "Poppy" Hat 1991 silk chiffon, feathers and wire National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Scott MacLeod The Arts Club, 3 upper Fitzwilliam 1991 oil and acrylic and gouache on paper Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec |
Holly Roberts Woman with Red Lips 1991 hand-colored gelatin silver print, mounted on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Tony Urquhart Old Maple near Wellesley, Ontario 1991 ink and wash on paper Museum London, Ontario |
The Composer
All the others translate: the painter sketches
A visible world to love or reject;
A visible world to love or reject;
Rummaging into his living, the poet fetches
The images out that hurt and connect,
The images out that hurt and connect,
From Life to Art by painstaking adaption,
Relying on us to cover the rift;
Only your notes are pure contraption,
Only your song is an absolute gift.
Pour out your presence, a delight, cascading
The falls of the knee and the weirs of the spine,
Our climate of silence and doubt invading;
The falls of the knee and the weirs of the spine,
Our climate of silence and doubt invading;
You alone, alone, imaginary song,
Are unable to say an existence is wrong,
And pour out your forgiveness like a wine.
– W.H. Auden (1938)