Saturday, September 7, 2024

Malanga - Cullen - Irvine - Dobell

Gerard Malanga
Candy Darling
1971
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Gerard Malanga
Holly Woodlawn
1971
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Gerard Malanga
Cecil Beaton
ca. 1971
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Gerard Malanga
Larry Rivers
ca. 1971
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Gregor Cullen
Regional High Schools Art Exhibition
1985
screenprint (poster)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Gregor Cullen
Reject the System
1982
offset print
(poster for Communist Party of Australia)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Gregor Cullen
The Seymour Group
1983
screenprint
(poster for music ensemble)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Gregor Cullen
The Tempest
1992
screenprint (poster) 
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Greg Irvine
Still Life, 1925
1987
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Greg Irvine
Sunday, St Kilda
1986
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Greg Irvine
La Lavande
1988
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Greg Irvine
Red Wall
1989
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

William Dobell
Model on Divan
ca. 1935
drawing
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

William Dobell
Study for Thelma Clune's Hand
ca. 1955
drawing
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

William Dobell
Self Portrait
1932
oil on panel
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

William Dobell
Pilchards
1953
oil on board
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Song

At last the secret is out, as it always must come in the end,
The delicious story is ripe to tell to the intimate friend;
Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire;
Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire. 

Behind the corpses in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links,
Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks,
Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh
There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.

For the clear voice suddenly singing, high up in the convent wall,
The scent of the elder bushes, the sporting prints in the hall,
The croquet matches in summer, the handshake, the cough, the kiss,
There is always a wicked secret, a private reason for this.

– W.H. Auden (1936)