Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Right Angles - I

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Union City Drive-In
1993
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Peter Tillberg
Armoire
1968
oil on canvas
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Johan Axel Gustav Acke
River Dance
1896
oil on canvases, mounted on five-panel screen
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm

Hans Åkerstrand
Window
ca. 1942
drawing
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Sten Didrik Bellander
Kaj and Greenhouse
1953
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Marcel Duchamp
Fresh Window
1920 & 1960
assemblage - wood, glass, leather
(replica of original, signed by Duchamp
and executed by Ulf Linde in 1960)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Joseph Cornell
Untitled
1954-56
assemblage - glass, wood, paper
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Piet Mondrian
Composition with Blue and Yellow
1933
oil on canvas
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Ollie Nyman
Stairs
ca. 1935
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Lilo Raymond
Door
1973
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Susan Rothenberg
Two-Tone
1975
acrylic and tempera on canvas
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Jan Tschichold
Prinz Louis Ferdinand - Phoebus-Palast
1927
poster
(publicity for silent film)
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Sverre Wyller
Lamp & Linen #2
1994
acrylic on cardboard, mounted on masonite
Stortingets Kunstsamling, Oslo

Pravoslav Sovák
Installation Imaginaire, Dahlem
ca. 1992
color aquatint
Kunsthalle Mannheim

Robert Rauschenberg
Gloria
1956
oil paint and paper collage on canvas
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Mark Rothko
Yellow and Blue (Yellow, Blue on Orange)
1955
oil on canvas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

There was a cowherd called Lampis, who was a bully.  He had also asked Dryas if he could marry Chloe and had already given him a large number of presents in his eagerness for the marriage.  He heard that if Daphnis got his master's consent, he would marry her, and looked for some way of making the master antagonistic to Daphnis and Lamon.  He knew that the master took pleasure in his garden and decided to do what he could to damage it and spoil its beauty.  If he cut down the trees, he was likely to get caught because of the noise; so he made the flowers his target for destruction.  He waited for night, then he crossed the fence, dug some up, broke others off, and trampled the rest down like a pig.  He got away without being seen.  When Lamon came to the garden the next day, intending to draw water for the flowers from the spring, he saw the whole place devastated – in a way an enemy, not a thief, would have gone to work.  At once he ripped his tunic in pieces and called on the gods with a great shout, so that Myrtale dropped what she was doing and ran out, and Daphnis left his goats and ran up.  Seeing it, they shouted, and, shouting, they wept: a new kind of mourning – for flowers.

– Longus, from Daphnis and Chloe (2nd century AD), translated from Greek by Christopher Gill (1989)