Nude (Spotlight), 2009 by Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955)
Friday, 2004 by Verne Dawson (b. 1961)
Nude with Loaves, 1952 by Jean Hélion (1904–1987)
Seated Nude: The Black Hat, c. 1900 by Philip Wilson Steer (1860–1942)
Tia Peltz (1923-1999)
Nude, 1967 by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
The Soul of Wine, 1900 by Carlos Schwabe (1866–1926)
Illustration for Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire.
“The Soul of Wine”
by
Charles Baudelaire
English translation by
William Aggeler
One night, the soul of wine was singing in the flask:
“O man, dear disinherited! to you I sing
This song full of light and of brotherhood
From my prison of glass with its scarlet wax seals.
I know the cost in pain, in sweat,
And in burning sunlight on the blazing hillside,
Of creating my life, of giving me a soul:
I shall not be ungrateful or malevolent,
For I feel a boundless joy when I flow
Down the throat of a man worn out by his labor;
His warm breast is a pleasant tomb
Where I’m much happier than in my cold cellar.
Do you hear the choruses resounding on Sunday
And the hopes that warble in my fluttering breast?
With sleeves rolled up, elbows on the table,
You will glorify me and be content;
I shall light up the eyes of your enraptured wife,
And give back to your son his strength and his color;
I shall be for that frail athlete of life
The oil that hardens a wrestler’s muscles.
Vegetal ambrosia, precious grain scattered
By the eternal Sower, I shall descend in you
So that from our love there will be born poetry,
Which will spring up toward God like a rare flower!”
Vortex, Sharon Sprung (b. 1953)
The Day I Quit, 2014 by Susannah Martin (b. 1964)
Ethel Ashton, 1930 by Alice Neel (1900–1984)
Helium, 2017 by Susannah Martin (b. 1964)
Candle Dancers, 1912 by Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
Salon Dogs Meet the Death Worm, 2015 by Susannah Martin (b. 1964)
Salomè, 1976 by Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni (1934-2000)
Susanna and the Elders, 1938 by Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975)
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