Intense

Fidus (Hugo Höppener)
Die Ersten Menschen
1908
lithograph
(poster advertising book)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ludwig Hohlwein
League of German Girls National Sports Day
1934
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Jean-Jacques Henner
Penitent St Jerome
ca. 1880
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes

attributed to Sebastiano Ricci
Head Study
before 1734
drawing
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Meijer Bleekrode
The People
renewed and enlarged
1931
lithograph
(poster for Dutch periodical)
Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam

François Boucher
Académie
ca. 1745
etching
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Anonymous Dutch Artist
The Giaour
ca. 1830
oil on canvas
Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands

Hellmut Eichrodt-
Kupferberg Gold
ca. 1904
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)
Study for Mythological Figure
ca. 1630
drawing
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Anonymous Hungarian Artist
Blood and Gold
1916
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Gaetano Gandolfi
St Gregory Thaumaturgus
ca. 1790
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Herman Heijenbrock
Use Casting Caps
ca. 1930-40-
lithograph (poster)
Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam

Asger Jorn
La Rose Féroce
1961
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Gianlorenzo Bernini
David
1623-24
marble
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Koos Breukel
Paul Blanca
2005
gelatin silver print
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Markus Raetz
Sight II
1986
aquatint and drypoint
Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

On the Road Home

It was when I said,

"There is no such thing as the truth,"

That the grapes seemed fatter.

The fox ran out of his hole. 

You . . . You said, 

"There are many truths,

But they are not parts of a truth."

Then the tree, at night, began to change,

Smoking through green and smoking blue.

We were two figures in a wood.

We said we stood alone.

It was when I said,
"Words are not forms of a single word.

In the sum of the parts, there are only the parts,

The world must be measured by eye";

It was when you said,

"The idols have seen lots of poverty,

Snakes and gold and lice,

But not the truth";

It was at that time, that the silence was largest

And longest, the night was roundest,

The fragrance of the autumn warmest,

Closest and strongest.

– Wallace Stevens (1942)