Showing posts with label 1980s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1980s. Show all posts

Monday, May 25, 2026

Crusade

Mariette Pathy Allen
Malinda with others at the Spring Fling Party Days
Provincetown, Massachusetts

1980
inkjet print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC


Robert Barnes
Calais Coach
1980
oil on panel
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Bill Brandt
Bridget Riley
1980
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jo Ann Callis
Goldfish and Stringbeans (#99)
1980
inkjet print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

James Casebere
Courtroom
1980
gelatin silver print
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Lynne Cohen
Computer School, Pittsburgh
1980
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Susan Crile
Deflected Light
1980
oil and gesso on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Bruce Davidson
Subway
1980
dye imbibition print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Lee Friedlander
Canton, Ohio
1980
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Gilbert and George
Crusade
1980
hand-colored photomontage
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Jörg Immendorff
4 Muses
1980
acrylic on canvas
Saint Louis Art Museum

Robert Mapplethorpe
Katherine Cebrian
1980
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

George Murphy
Back of Atheneum II
1980
watercolor on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Julian Schnabel
Insane Authority - Portrait of Dr Caligari
1980
oil and cowhide on velvet
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Deborah Turbeville
Dust-Sheeted Apartments of Madame du Barry at Versailles
1980
inkjet print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Jerome Witkin
Pose-Study for Portrait of Claudia Glass
1980
drawing
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Francesca Woodman
Untitled
1980
inkjet print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

The Secrets of the Earth

The eternal gates' terrific porter lifted the northern bar:
Thel entered in and saw the secrets of the land unknown.
She saw the couches of the dead, and where the fibrous roots
Of every heart on earth infixes deep its restless twists:
A land of sorrows and of tears where never smile was seen.

She wandered in the land of clouds through valleys dark, listening to
Dolours and lamentations; waiting oft beside a dewy grave
She stood in silence, listening to the voices of the ground,
Till to her own grave plot she came, and there she sat down,
And heard this voice of sorrow breathed from the hollow pit.

'Why cannot the Ear be closed to its own destruction?
Or the glistening Eye to the poison of a smile?
Why are Eyelids stored with arrows ready drawn,
Where a thousand fighting men in ambush lie?
Or an Eye of gifts and graces showering fruits and coined gold?
Why a Tongue impressed with honey from every wind?
Why an Ear, a whirlpool fierce to draw creations in?
Why a Nostril wide inhaling terror, trembling, and affright?
Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?'

– William Blake, from The Book of Thel (1789)

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Notables of the 1980s

Alois Mosbacher
Figure
1981
oil on canvas
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Victor Honig van den Bossche
Portrait of Simone de Beauvoir
1986
drawing (colored pencils)
Museum Gouda

Peter Wehrens
Untitled
1983
oil and acrylic on board
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht

Elisabeth de Vaal
Torso
1982
acrylic on paper
Museum Gouda

Victoria Crowe
Portrait of psychiatrist and writer R.D. Laing
1984
oil on panel
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Gunter Christmann
Untitled
1984
drawing (colored chalks)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Constance McClure
Figure on Exotic Bed
1987
drawing
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Georg Eisler
The Red Restaurant
1981
oil on canvas
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Leon Golub
Blue Sphinx
1988
acrylic on linen
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Philip Pearlstein
Two Models - One seated on Floor in Kimono
1980
oil on canvas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Maria Lassnig
Atlas
1985
oil on canvas
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Christos Bokoros
Naked Couple on Bed
1989
oil on canvas
National Gallery, Athens

Sarantis Karavouzis
Indoor Statues
1987
engraving
National Gallery, Athens

Louise Lawler
Gallery in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1988
C-print
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Georg Baselitz
Saint Veronica
1984
oil on canvas
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Elaine De Kooning
Bacchus #19-0
1983
oil on canvas
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins

The harlot sang to the beggarman.
I meet them face to face,
Conall, Cuchulain, Usna's boys,
All that most ancient race;
Maeve had three in an hour they say;
I adore those clever eyes 
Those muscular bodies but can get
No grip upon their thighs.
I meet those long pale faces,
Hear their great horses, then
Recall what centuries have passed
Since they were living men,
That there are still some living
That do my limbs unclothe,
But that the flesh my flesh has gripped
I both adore and loathe.

Are those things that men adore and loathe
Their sole reality?
What stood in the Post Office
With Pearse and Connolly?
What comes out of the mountain
Where men first shed their blood?
Who thought Cuchulain till it seemed
He stood where they had stood?
No body like his body
Has modern woman borne,
But an old man looking back on life
Imagines it in scorn.
A statue's there to mark the place
By Oliver Sheppard done.
So ends the tale that the harlot
Sang to the beggarman.

– W.B. Yeats (1939)

Monday, February 12, 2024

Visual Relics (1987-1990)

Anne Zahalka
The Cleaner
1987
C-print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Anne Zahalka
The Cook
1987
C-print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Michael Kenna
Power Station Study 31, Ratcliffe (Nottinghamshire, England)
1987
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Ralph Gibson
Untitled
1987
gelatin silver print
Phillips Collection,Washington DC

Graeme Hare
Untitled
1987
C-print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Rose Farrell and George Parkin
Annunciation
1988
C-print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Rose Farrell and George Parkin
St Jerome in Penitence
1988
C-print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

George Woodman
Untitled
1988
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Andrea Modica
Oneonta, NY
1988
platinum-palladium print
Denver Art Museum

Cindy Sherman
Untitled
1988
C-print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Carl Pope
Untitled
1989
gelatin silver print
Indianapolis Museum of Art

Thomas Struth
Louvre II
1989
C-print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

David Levinthal
Untitled
(series, Wild West)
1989
Polaroid dye diffusion transfer color print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Barbara Bosworth
Spot where an Elk slept, Yellowstone National Park
1989
gelatin silver print
Denver Art Museum

Jonathan Bailey
Angel holding Christ (Funerary Statue)
Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, Mexico

1990
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

John Baldessari
Two Compositions
1990
C-prints with added paint
Albright-Knox-Art-Gallery-Buffalo-New-York

"But I, great wife of Jove – who left no thing
undared, who tried all ways in wretchedness –
am beaten by Aeneas. If my power 
is not enough, I shall not hesitate
to plead for more, from anywhere; if I
cannot bend High Ones, then I shall move hell.
I cannot keep him from the Latin kingdoms:
so be it, let Lavinia be his wife,
as fates have fixed. But I can still hold off
that moment and delay these great events,
can still strike down the nations of both kings.
Then let the son and father-in-law pay
for peace with their own peoples' death. Virgin,
your dowry will be Latin blood and Trojan,
your bridal matron is to be Bellona." 

– Juno meditates further harm, from Book VII of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)

Sunday, February 11, 2024

Visual Relics (1985-1986)

Mimmo Jodice
Cleopatra as painted by Artemisia Gentileschi
1985
C-print
Yale University Art Gallery

Nat Finkelstein
Marhahn N.Y.C.
1985
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

William Christenberry
Flowers and Porch near Morgan Springs, Alabama
1985
C-print
Yale University Art Gallery

Leon Levinstein
Man in Surf
ca. 1985
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Don Worth
Carnations, Mill Valley, California
1986
C-print
Yale University Art Gallery

Sheila Metzner
Uma, Patou Dress
(fashion shot)
1986
Fresson print
Yale University Art Gallery

Lourdes Grobet
Untitled (Cactus painted Red/Yellow)
ca. 1986
C-print
Brooklyn Museum

Roberto Soncin Gerometta
Vogalonga, Venice
1986
C-print
Yale University Art Gallery

Ralph Gibson
Untitled
1986
gelatin silver print
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Adam Fuss
Untitled
1986
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Anne Ferran
Scenes on the Nature of Death III
1986
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Seymour Edelstein
Book-Seller, Lower East Side, Manhattan
1986
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Mariette Pathy Allen
At the National Academy of Design
1986
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Michael Kenna
Power Station Study 6, Chapel Cross (Dumfries, Scotland)
1986
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Robert Mapplethorpe
Thomas (Back)
1986
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Bruce Weber
NYC Studio
1986
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

But even then the savage wife of Jove
was well embarked upon the air, returning
from Argos, city of Inachus; even
from Sicily's Pachynus, far away, 
across the sky she spied the glad Aeneas
and all his Dardan fleet. She sees them building 
their houses, settling on the land, deserting
their ships. Her grief is sharp; she cannot move.

– Juno abominates the sight of Aeneas in Italy, from Book VII of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)

Debra Heimerdinger
Untitled #40
1986
C-print
Yale University Art Gallery