Thursday, May 29, 2025

Approaches to Ornament - VI

Waldemar Bernhard
Nike
(in the park at Waldemarsudde)
ca. 1950
engraving
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Ingrid Årfelt-Svalander
Constellation
ca. 1954
linocut
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Arman (Armand Fernandez)
Night in the Wild West
1961
enameled pitchers in wood and Plexiglas case
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

May Arnell
Blue Pots
1962
oil on canvas
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Bruno Goller
Untitled
1962
oil on canvas
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Irina Ionesco
Litanie pour une amante funèbre
1974
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Lennart Rodhe
Pattern
1976
screenprint
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden

Victor Arimondi
Ed S, model
1981
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Kiki Wilhelmsen (designer)
Blossoms
1988
printed linen
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø

Anonymous Swedish Designer
Boxes Boxes Boxes
Nationalmuseum

1990
lithograph (exhibition poster)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Anonymous Swedish Designer
Empire Style in Sweden
Nationalmuseum

1991
lithograph (exhibition poster)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Geir Tore Holm
The World (Mirror)
1997
inkjet print
KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo

Alfred Wilhelm Holmström (designer)
Carl Fabergé - The Tsar's Goldsmith
Nationalmuseum

1997
lithograph (poster)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Elisabeth von Krogh
Bowl
2000
glazed earthenware
KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo

Kerstin Bergh
Black Draws Back
2010
oil on canvas
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden

Vidar Koksvik
Vase
ca. 2010
blown glass
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø

Meanwhile the ship passed by Cos and Cnidus, and already the great and beautiful island of Rhodes was coming into view; here they all had to disembark, for the sailors said that they had to take on water and rest in preparation for the long voyage ahead.

So the ship put into Rhodes, and the sailors disembarked; Habrocomes too came off, hand in hand with Anthia.  All the Rhodians gathered, amazed at the young people's beauty, and no one who saw them passed by in silence: some said that it was a visitation of auspicious gods; some offered them worship and adoration; and soon the names of Habrocomes and Anthia had traveled all through the city.  Public prayers were offered to them; the Rhodians offered many sacrifices and celebrated their visit as a festival.  So they toured the whole city and gave as an offering to the temple of Helius a gold panoply and inscribed on a votive tablet an epigram with the donors' names.

The strangers offered you these weapons of beaten gold,
Anthia and Habrocomes, citizens of holy Ephesus. 

– Xenophon of Ephesus, from An Ephesian Tale (2nd century AD), translated from Greek by Graham Anderson (1989)