Saturday, July 4, 2026

Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1918)

Lovis Corinth
Basket of Flowers with Amaryllis and Calla Lilies
1918
oil on canvas
Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden

El Lissitzky
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge!
1918
lithograph
Frye Art Museum, Seattle

Arvid Fougstedt
Two Harlequins
1918
drawing
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Lester George Hornby
Fighting Yank - The Marne
1918
etching
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Vilmos Huszár
Composition in Gray
1918
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Order Coal Now
1918
lithograph (poster)
Dallas Museum of Art

Max Liebermann
Row of Birches, Wannseegarten
1918
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Jacques Lipchitz
Man and Guitar - Black, Gray, Red and White
1918
ink and colored chalks on paper
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Kasimir Malevich
Pamphlet Cover, issued in Russian by 
Congress of Committees on Rural Poverty

1918
lithograph
Dallas Museum of Art

Joan Miró
Portrait of Joaneta Obrador
1918
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Amedeo Modigliani
Girl with Blue Eyes
1918
oil on canvas
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Piet Mondrian
Composition with Grid
1918
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Edvard Munch
Girls on Bridge
1918
woodcut, zincograph and lithograph
Dallas Museum of Art

Pablo Picasso
Angles and Curves
1918
watercolor and ink on paper
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Egon Schiele
Portrait of Victor Ritter von Bauer
1918
oil on canvas
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Gil Spear
Workers: Lend Your Strength
to the Red Triangle: YMCA

1918
lithograph (poster)
Dallas Museum of Art

from Talking to Myself 

Spring this year in Austria started off benign,
the heavens lucid, the air stable, the about
sane to all feeders, vegetate or bestial:
the deathless minerals looked pleased with their regime,
where what is not forbidden is compulsory. 

Shadows of course there are, Porn-Ads, with-it clergy,
and hubby next door has taken to the bottle,
but You have preserved Your poise, strange rustic object,
whom I, made in God's Image but already warped,
a malapert will-worship, must bow to as Me. 

My mortal manor, the carnal territory
allotted to my manage, my fosterling too,
I must earn cash to support, my tutor also,
but for whose neural instructions I could never
acknowledge what is or imagine what is not.

Instinctively passive, I guess, having neither
fangs nor talons nor hooves nor venom, and therefore 
too prone to let the sun go down upon Your funk,
a poor smeller, or rather a censor of smells,
with an omnivore palate that can take hot food.

– W.H. Auden (1971)