Showing posts with label tulips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tulips. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Traditional Transience - II

Max Schlichting
Poppies
1895
oil on canvas
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Karl Hagemeister
White Poppies
1881
oil on canvas
Landesmuseum, Hannover

Hendrik Schoock
Flower Piece
ca. 1690
oil on canvas
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Balthasar van der Ast
Floral Still Life with Shells
1622
oil on copper
Saint Louis Art Museum

Élise Bruyère and Antoine Chazal
Flowers and Grapes
1843
oil on panel
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes

Félix Carme
Flowers in a Vase
ca. 1895
watercolor on paper
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Jan van Huysum
Bouquet of Flowers in an Urn
1724
oil on panel
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Hans Bollongier
Floral Still Life
1639
oil on panel
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Theodor Pallady
Flowers at the Window, Place Dauphine, Paris
ca. 1924-26
oil on canvas
Romanian National Museum of Art, Bucharest

Camille Pissarro
Bouquet of Flowers
ca. 1873
oil on canvas
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Gustave Courbet
Flower Arrangement
1855
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Anonymous Italian Artist
Bouquet in Gold and Silver Vase
ca. 1700
oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder
Bouquet of Flowers in a Porcelain Vase
1609
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Adolf von Becker
Flower Picture
1862
oil on cardboard
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

Jakob Bogdany
Flowers in a Glass Vase
ca. 1700
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Édouard Manet
Vase of Lilacs
ca. 1882
oil on canvas
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Gaveston [reading a letter from King Edward]:

My father is deceast, come Gaveston,
And share the kingdom with thy dearest friend.
Ah words that make me surfet with delight:
What greater blisse can hap to Gaveston,
Then live and be the favorit of a king?
Sweete prince I come, these these thy amorous lines,
Might have enforst me to have swum from France,
And like Leander gaspt upon the sande,
So thou wouldst smile and take me in thy armes.
The sight of London to my exiled eyes,
Is as Elizium to a new come soule.
Not that I love the citie or the men,
But that it harbors him I hold so deare,
The king, upon whose bosome let me die,
And with the world be still at enmitie:
What neede the artick people love star-light,
To whom the sunne shines both by day and night.
Farewell base stooping to the lordly peeres,
My knee shall bowe to none but to the king.
As for the multitude that are but sparkes,
Rakt up in embers of their povertie,
Tanti: Ile fawne first on the winde,
That glaunceth at my lips and flieth away. 

– Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, Act I, scene i (1593)

Sunday, January 5, 2025

Briefly Alive, Everlastingly Appropriated

Fritz Syberg
Mullein Blossoms
1898
oil on canvas
Ordrupgaard Art Museum, Copenhagen

John La Farge
Roses on a Tray
1861
oil on Japanese lacquer panel
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Jacob Marrel
Still Life with Flowers
ca. 1650
oil on panel
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Robert Caumont
Cascade of Roses
1914
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Camille Pissarro
Blossoming Plum Trees, Éragny
1894
oil on canvas
Ordrupgaard Art Museum, Copenhagen

Emil Nolde
Red and Yellow Roses
1907
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Henri Le Sidaner
Rose Garden at Twilight
1923
oil on canvas
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota

Isaak Soreau
Still Life with Tulips, Strawberries, Grapes and Cherries
ca. 1625
oil on copper
National Gallery, Athens

Theodor Aman
Still Life with Roses
ca. 1860-70
oil on canvas
Romanian National Museum of Art, Bucharest

Emil Nolde
Tulips
1915
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Barbara Regina Dietzsch
Tulip with Butterfly and Cockchafer
ca. 1750
gouache on paper
Hamburger Kunsthalle

John La Farge
Camellias in a Japanese Pot
1879
watercolor on paper
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Emil Rudolf Weiss
Still Life with Roses
1906
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Moïse Kisling
Irises
1936-37
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Max Ernst
Flowers on Yellow Ground
1929
oil on canvas
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Stephan Bundi
Weisse Rose
(opera by Udo Zimmermann)
2008
screenprint (poster)
Museum Folkwang, Essen

from Little Lesson on How to Be 

The woman at the Salvation Army who sorts and prices is in her eighties
and she underestimates the value of everything, for which I am grateful.

Lightly used snow suits, size 2T, are $6 and snow boots are $3.

There is a little girl, maybe seven, fiddling with a tea set. Her mother
inspects drapes for stains.

Sometimes the very old and lonely are looking for an opening.

She glances up from her pricing and says something about the tea set
and a baby doll long ago.

I am careful not to make eye contact, but the mother with drapes has
such softness in her shoulders and her face and she knows how to say
the perfect kind thing – "What a wonderful mother you had."

"Yes, she was."

Why do children sometimes notice us and sometimes not?

From the bin of dolls: "What happened to your mother?"

– Kathryn Nuemberger (2011)