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| Richard Anuszkiewicz Temple of Red with Orange 1983 acrylic on panel Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona |
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| Don Bachardy Christopher Isherwood 1983 acrylic on canvas Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California |
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| Francis Bacon Seated Figure 1983 etching (adaptation of an earlier painting) Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami |
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| Richard Bosman Double Trouble 1983 woodcut Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina |
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| Wil Bouthoorn Grimm Fairytale 1983 oil on panel Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Marilyn Bridges Monument Valley, Arizona 1983 gelatin silver print New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
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| James Brooks Bharatt 1983 acrylic on canvas Portland Museum of Art, Maine |
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| William Christenberry Red Building in Forest, Hale County, Alabama 1983 C-print Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Charles Clough 8 Dextram 1983 enamel over color photograph Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona |
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| Willem De Kooning Untitled XLVII 1983 oil on canvas Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
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| Richard Diebenkorn Ochre 1983 color woodblock print San Jose Museum of Art, California |
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| Jim Dine A Heart at the Opera 1983 lithograph McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
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| Don DuBroff Oriental Theatre, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1983 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Michael Eastman Marcella's Resort 1983 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| John Eide Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris 1983 gelatin silver print Portland Museum of Art, Maine |
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| John Eide Le Bassin de Latone, Versailles 1983 gelatin silver print Portland Museum of Art, Maine |
from Five Songs
"When rites and melodies begin,
To alter modes and times,
And timid bar-flies boast aloud
Of uncommitted crimes,
And leading families are proud
To dine with their black sheep,
What promises, what discipline,
If any, will Love keep?"
So roared Fire on their right:
But Tamino and Pamina
Walked past its rage,
Sighing O, sighing O,
In timeless fermatas of awe and delight
(Innocent? Yes. Ignorant? No.)
Down the grim passage.
"When stinking Chaos lifts the latch,
And Grotte backward spins,
And Helen's nose becomes a beak,
And cats and dogs grow chins,
And daisies claw and pebbles shriek
And Form and Color part,
What swarming hatreds then will hatch
Out of Love's riven heart?"
So hissed Water on their left:
But Pamina and Tamino
Opposed its spite
With his worship, with her sweetness –
O look now! See how they emerge from the cleft
(Frightened? No. Happy? Yes.)
Out into sunlight.
– W.H. Auden (1953)