Love as Folly

Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Love as Folly
ca. 1773-76
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert
Dido and Aeneas in the Cave
1646
oil on canvas
Bildgalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam

attributed to Francesco Albani
Salmacis spurned by Hermaphroditus
ca. 1633-35
oil on canvas
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Giulio Bonasone
Semele overcome by Jupiter's Fiery Splendor
ca. 1545
engraving
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Johann König
Arethusa and Alpheus
ca. 1625
oil on copper
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Willem van Mieris
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
1693
gouache on vellum
Morgan Library, New York

Juan Bautista Maíno
Narcissus
ca. 1600-1610
oil on canvas
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota

G.F. Folingsby
First Meeting of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
1879
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

John William Waterhouse
Lamia
1905
oil on canvas
Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand

Nicolas Joseph Delin
Hercules and Omphale
1786
oil on canvas
Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden

Cesare Dandini
Rinaldo and Armida
1635
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

attributed to Gregorio Lazzarini
Rinaldo and Armida
ca. 1690
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Slovenia, Ljubljana

François-André Vincent
Rinaldo and Armida
ca. 1787
oil on canvas
Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Pieter van der Werff
Samson and Delilah
before 1722
oil on panel
Národní Galerie, Prague

Giovanni Battista Langetti
Old Woman with Love Note and Pearls
(Vanitas)
ca. 1663
oil on canvas
Národní Galerie, Prague

Gaspare Traversi
The Love Note Discovered
ca. 1750-60
oil on canvas
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota

The Fool by the Roadside

When all works that have

From cradle run to grave
From grave to cradle run instead;

When thoughts that a fool

Has wound upon a spool
Are but loose thread, are but loose thread;

When cradle and spool are past
And I mere shade at last
Coagulate of stuff
Transparent like the wind,
I think that I may find
A faithful love, a faithful love.

– W.B. Yeats (1928)

Moffatt - Kokoschka - Rosenquist - Jerrems

Tracey Moffatt
Fourth #23
2001
inkjet print
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Tracey Moffatt
Fourth #24
2001
inkjet print
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Tracey Moffatt
Fourth #7
2001
inkjet print
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Tracey Moffatt
Fourth #8
2001
inkjet print
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Oskar Kokoschka
Froehliches Osterfest
ca. 1905-1910
lithograph
(postcard produced by Wiener Werkstätte)
Dallas Museum of Art

Oskar Kokoschka
Mädchen am Fenster
ca. 1908-1909
lithograph
(postcard produced by Wiener Werkstätte)
Dallas Museum of Art

Oskar Kokoschka
Mädchen mit Schaf auf Bergwiese
ca. 1908-1909
lithograph
(postcard produced by Wiener Werkstätte)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Oskar Kokoschka
Self Portrait
1918-19
oil on canvas
Leopold Museum, Vienna

James Rosenquist
Skull Snap
1989
lithograph and pressed paper pulp
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

James Rosenquist
Sun sets on the Time Zone
1989
lithograph and pressed paper pulp
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

James Rosenquist
The Bird of Paradise approaches the Hot Water Planet
1989
lithograph and pressed paper pulp
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

James Rosenquist
Time Dust
1992
lithograph, screenprint, collage and pressed paper pulp
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Carol Jerrems
Esben and Dusan, Cronulla
1977
gelatin silver print
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Carol Jerrems
Letter
1973
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Carol Jerrems
Martin Sharp with Painting
1973
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Carol Jerrems
Sandy, Yarra River
1975
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

from For the Time Being

If the muscle can feel repugnance, there is still a false move to be made;
If the mind can imagine to-morrow, there is still a defeat to remember;
As long as the self can say "I", it is impossible not to rebel;
As long as there is an accidental virtue, there is a necessary vice:
And the garden cannot exist, the miracle cannot occur.

For the garden is the only place there is, but you will not find it
Until you have looked for it everywhere and found nowhere that is not a desert;
The miracle is the only thing that happens, but to you it will not be apparent,
Until all events have been studied and nothing happens that you cannot explain;
And life is the destiny you are bound to refuse until you have consented to die. 

Therefore, see without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking:
The Inevitable is what will seem to happen to you purely by chance;
The Real is what will strike you as really absurd;
Unless you are certain you are dreaming, it is certainly a dream of your own;
Unless you exclaim – "There must be some mistake" – you must be mistaken.

– W.H. Auden (1941-42)