Showing posts with label wallpaper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wallpaper. Show all posts

Saturday, May 30, 2026

Constellations

Philippe Apeloig
Des Bibliothèques à Vivre - Usages, Espaces, Architectures
2009
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum


Philippe Apeloig
Octobre Fait Danser la Saison
(Octobre en Normandie)

1995
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Philippe Apeloig
New Year Greeting Card
1995
screenprint
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Richard Anuszkiewicz
Trans-Lumina with Turquoise
1986
screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Richard Anuszkiewicz
Greeting Card
before 1982
screenprint
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Richard Anuszkiewicz
Greeting Card
before 1982
screenprint
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Richard Anuszkiewicz
Greeting Card
1978
screenprint
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Richard Anuszkiewicz
Greeting Card
1969
screenprint
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Richard Anuszkiewicz
Banner
1963
appliquéd felt
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Hans Arp (Jean Arp)
Sculpture Study
1964
graphite and watercolor on paper
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Hans Arp (Jean Arp)
Constellation
1960
painted paper collage
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Hans Arp (Jean Arp)
Amega dans l'Omega
1960
relief of wood, suede and silk, mounted on board
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Anonymous American Designer
Chickens (Kitchen)
ca. 1950-60
machine-printed wallpaper sample
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous American Designer
Undulating Grid
ca. 1950
screenprinted wallpaper sample
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Designer
Parrots
ca. 1905-1910
block-printed wallpaper sample
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous Persian Printmaker
Scene from the Shahnama (Book of Kings)
ca. 1890
hand-colored woodcut
National Museum of Asian Art, Washington DC

Anonymous French Designer
Offering to Cupid
ca. 1800
block-printed wallpaper sample
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead

Every time I sleep I leave a stain.
When I wake up I climb out of a drain
And step into my feet and it is plain
That when I walk away I leave a lane
Of garbage on the carpet in the train.

Francisco Franco (El Caudillo) pokes his head up from the drain
Where he's been hiding with Saddam Hussein.
He waterboards the peasants with champagne.
Now maybe they'll vote to give this madly inane
Hitler-buffoon his very own nuclear codes, let democracy reign!

Make Spain great again! I shouldn't touch it but I can't refrain
And don't restrain
Myself so what was once a tiny grain
Of pain
Is now a roaring lion with a mane.

Franco needs water for his golf courses so we can't complain
Out loud but it's insane – insane
Monsoons of rain
Drowning the automatic sprinkler systems that maintain
The greens, blinding windshields worldwide, Spain to Maine.

I can't stop rhyming! I can't. It's my domain!
Making more or less musical noise out of my fascist disdain.
I choose Francisco Franco, weakling strong man of Spain,
As my alter ego, bearer of my terror over what I can't attain
In the few years I have left, the minutes that remain.

Lacking tenderness, not something you can go to the store and obtain,
But which anyway does not pertain
To piloting an airplane
Dropping bombs on innocent civilians who remain
In pieces in the street under the boiling sun, Spaniards, pieces of Spain.

Don't drink and drive. Don't text while driving. Don't kill Lorca. Maintain
The good health of your car and tires and don't explain
To anyone when you're in the red-light district but remain
Alert also on the subway and don't feign
Ignorance because, though Franco is still dead, long may Franco reign!

– Frederick Seidel (2018)

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Variations (The Rose)

Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of a Woman with a Rose
ca. 1635-40
oil on canvas
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston


Johann Baptist Drechsler
Flowers
1786
oil on panel
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Wybrand Hendriks
Flower Still Life
ca. 1810
oil on panel
Portland Art Museum, Oregon

Franz Xaver Petter
Still Life with Roses and Grapes
1828
watercolor on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Eugène Delacroix
Vase of Flowers on a Console
1849-50
oil on canvas
Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban

Gustave Courbet
Vase of Lilacs, Roses and Tulips
1863
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Josef Lauer
Nasturtiums and Roses
before 1881
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Édouard Manet
Roses in Champagne Glass
1882
oil on canvas
Burrell Collection, Glasgow

Anonymous German Designer
Trellis with Roses
ca. 1900
printed, embossed and die-cut wallpaper border
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Childe Hassam
Maréchal Niel Roses
1919
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Rebecca Salsbury James
Black Vase and Pink Rose, Mexico
1933
oil on glass
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Max White Kuehne
Roses
1922
oil on linen
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Anonymous French Designer
Rose Wreath
ca. 1920-30
silk jacquard shawl
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Eikoh Hosoe
Ordeal by Roses #38
1963
gelatin silver print
National Museum of Asian Art, Washington DC

Eikoh Hosoe
Ordeal by Roses #25 (Yukio Mishima)
1963
gelatin silver print
National Museum of Asian Art, Washington DC

Beatriz Milhazes
The Carnation and the Rose
2000
acrylic on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Kate Lucey Whitney
Roses in Winter Shelters at The Whim, Newport, Rhode Island
2011
digital photograph
Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC

Robespierre

Who wouldn't like to have the power to kill
Friends and enemies at will and fill
The jails with people you don't know or know
Only slightly from meeting them a year ago.
Maybe at an AA meeting, where they don't even use last names.
Hi, I'm Fred. Instead of being someone who constantly blames
And complains, why not annihilate?
Why not hate? Why not exterminate? Why not violate
Their rights and their bodies? Tell
The truth. Who wouldn't like to? There's a wishing well in hell
Where every wish is granted.
Decapitation gets decanted.
Suppose you have the chance
To guillotine the executioner after having guillotined everyone else in France?

– Frederick Seidel (2016)

Friday, April 3, 2026

Wiener Werkstätte (Designers)

Mathilde Flögl for Wiener Werkstätte
Distel
ca. 1910
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum


Mathilde Flögl for Wiener Werkstätte
Distel
ca. 1910
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Mathilde Flögl for Wiener Werkstätte
Distel
ca. 1910
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Kolomon Moser for Wiener Werkstätte
Baummarder
ca. 1910-11
block-printed silk
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Josef Hoffmann for Wiener Werkstätte
Adler
ca. 1910-12
block-printed silk
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anny Schröder for Wiener Werkstätte
Doily with Bird
1922
linen (bobbin lace)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anny Schröder for Wiener Werkstätte
Doily with Tree
1922
linen (bobbin lace)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Valerie Wieselthier for Wiener Werkstätte
Vase
ca. 1920
glazed earthenware
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Hilda Jeser for Wiener Werkstätte
Vase
ca. 1921
glazed earthenware
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Dagobert Peche for Wiener Werkstätte
Vase
ca. 1917
painted zinc with glass liner
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Dagobert Peche for Wiener Werkstätte
Vase
1923
silver
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Dina Kuhn for Wiener Werkstätte
Allegorical Head: Das Wasser
1929
glazed earthenware
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Mathilde Flögl for Wiener Werkstätte
Drawstring Bag
ca. 1925
beaded kidskin with silk cord
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Felice Rix-Ueno for Wiener Werkstätte
Archibald
ca. 1913-17
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Felice Rix-Ueno for Wiener Werkstätte
Archibald
ca. 1913-17
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Dagobert Peche for Wiener Werkstätte
Viola
1922
machine-printed wallpaper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Dagobert Peche for Wiener Werkstätte
Das Wasser
1922
machine-printed wallpaper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

As I gird on for fighting
    My sword upon my thigh,
I think on old ill fortunes
    Of better men than I.

Think I, the round world over,
    What golden lads are low
With hurts not mine to mourn for
    And shames I shall not know.

What evil luck soever
    For me remains in store,
'Tis sure much finer fellows
    Have fared much worse before. 

So here are things to think on
    That ought to make me brave,
As I strap on for fighting
    My sword that will not save.

– A.E. Housman (1922)