Memento by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Like a reminder of this life of trams, sun, sparrows,...

Little Aggie by Marriott Edgar

When Joe Dove took his elephants out on the road He made each one hold fast with his trunk To the tail of the elephant walking in front To stop them from doing a bunk....

Nuova Stazione Centrale di Milano by Antonio Sant’Elia

Nuova Stazione Centrale di Milano by Antonio Sant'Elia Nuova Stazione Centrale di Milano1912Futurism Sant’Elia collaborated with architect Arrigo Cantoni in a 1912 competition to design the façade of Milan’s New Central Station building. Crowned by a central dome with two smaller domes accentuating the ends of the structure. The majority of the building is lined …

Carpe Diem by Maurice Jarre

https://youtu.be/ovyfbirtPLs Maurice Jarre Carpe Diem1996Film and TV Maurice JarreFilm and TVBorn: 13 September 1924, Lyon, FranceNationality: FrenchDied: 28 March 2009, California, USA Jarre was a composer and conductor best known for his film scores, including Lawrence of Arabia and A Passage to India. Jarre received nine nominations for the Academy Awards, winning Best Original Score …

One Hand, One Heart by Leonard Bernstein

https://youtu.be/eQRsf1PRt0c One Hand, One Heart1957Musicals Leonard BernsteinMusicals, OperaBorn: 25 August 1918, Massachusetts, USANationality: AmericanDied: 4 October 1990, New York, USA Leonard Bernstein Bernstein was a composer, conductor, pianist, educator, author, and humanitarian. Consider among the most important conductors of his time Bernstein was the first American conductor to receive international acclaim. Best known for the …

I, Being born a Woman and Distressed by Edna St Vincent Millay

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind...

Salon Hödler by Louise Lawler

Salon Hödler by Louise Lawler Salon Hödler1992PaperweightPaperweight (silver dye bleach print, crystal, felt)Metro Pictures, New York, USA “Salon Hödler” is an example of how Lawler recirculates her earlier photographs by presenting them in varying alternative forms and allows the viewer to become aware of the evolving nature of the image in both meaning and how …

Picture for Women by Jeff Wall

Picture for Women by Jeff Wall Picture for Women1979PhotographyCibachrome transparency mounted on a lightboxThe Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France In his photograph “Picture for Women” Wall continues his investigation of the 19th-century painting within a contemporary photograph. The photograph depicts a reflection of a sparse studio room simply furnished with metallic office-style chairs and a …

Doors of Daring by Henry Van Dyke

The mountains that enfold the vale With walls of granite, steep and high,...

Massenpsychose by László Moholy-Nagy

Massenpsychose by László Moholy-Nagy Massenpsychose1927DadaPhoto-montageGeorge Eastman House, Rochester, New York A Dada-inspired collage, “Messenpsychose” consists of figures cut from magazines clustered together in three test tube-like shapes to create a disconcerting effect that suggests a series of potentially violent, absurd, and arbitrary interactions between the disparate collection of individuals. The figures are simultaneously isolated and …

Rehearsal by David Park

Rehearsal by David Park Rehearsal1949-50Bay Area Figurative MovementOil on canvasOakland Museum of California, USA In 1949 when he began working in figurate works Park destroyed many of his abstract works. Exhibited in 1950 at the Artist Members Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association “Rehearsal” provoked surprise and consternation among Park’s friends, colleagues, and critics. …

Helen by Hilda Doolittle

All Greece hates the still eyes in the white face...

Sailors and Floosies by Paul Cadmus

Sailors and Floosies by Paul Cadmus Sailors and Floosies1938Social RealismOil and tempera on linen with wood frameWhitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA “Sailors and Floosies” is the final painting in a series by Cadmus dealing with the subject of US Navy sailors on leave.. He drew inspiration from real-life scenes of cruising the …

Closed Path by Rabindranath Tagore

I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power,---that the path before me was closed,...

Head Against The Walls by Paul Eluard

Head Against The Walls1924 There were only a few of themIn all the earthEach one thought he was aloneThey sang, they were rightTo singBut they sang the way you sack a cityThe way you kill yourself. Frayed moist nightShall we endure youLongerShall we not shakeYour cloacal evidenceWe shall not wait for a morningMade to measureWe …

Limits by Jorge Luis Borges

Of all the streets that blur in to the sunset, There must be one (which, I am not sure)...

Number Pieces by John Cage

Number Pieces1987-92Performance ArtMulti-media “Number Pieces” was created in the last six years of Cage’s life It is an extensive series of work with each “Number Piece” named after the number of performers involved, ranging from One for a single performer and 108 for an orchestra. The majority of the works in the suite utilize aleatory …

Picking Apples by Natalia Goncharova

Picking Apples by Natalia Goncharova Picking Apples1909ImpressionismOil on canvasPrivate Collection With influences from 1908’s Golden Fleece exhibition, “Picking Apples”, painted a year later, had much in common with works Goncharova had seen there, including Cezanne’s “Bathers” and Matisse’s “Le Bonheur de Vivre” “Picking Apple” depicts a group of women enjoying the light airiness of time …

Goalkeeper Joe by Marriott Edgar

Joe Dunn were a bobby for football He gave all his time to that sport...

Miami Vice Theme by Jan Hammer

Miami Vice Theme1985Film and TV https://youtu.be/6nPTZqnIfFM Jan HammerFilm and TV, Jazz FusionBorn: 17 April 1948, Prague, CzechoslovakiaNationality: Czech-American Jan Hammer Hammer is a musician, composer, and record producer, He is best known for playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 1970s and for composing film and television scores such as “Miami Vice”

Piano Activities by George Maciunas

Piano Activities by George Maciunas Piano Activities1963Performance ArtPrepared piano and performers - Staged during Fluxus Internationale Festpiele Neuester Musik, Hörsaal des Städtischen Museums, Wiesbaden, Germany, September 1, 1962 Created by Philip Corner and Fluxus artists George Maciunas, Wolf Vostell, Nam June Paik, Emmet Williams, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, and Benjamin Patterson “Piano Activities” was part …

Blue Winter by Robert Francis

Winter uses all the blues there are. One shade of blue for water, one for ice...

Red Smile by Alex Katz

Red Smile by Alex Katz Red Smile1963American RealismOil on canvasWhitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA “Red Smile” is exemplary if Katz’s polished and mature technique with little trace of the work’s creation. He began producing work inspired by the aesthetics of film, television, and commercial advertising in the 1960’s demonstrating his art in …

Mask for Firdusi by Marcel Janco

Mask for Firdusi by Marcel Janco Mask for Firdusi1917-18DadaPaper, board, paint, and twineThe Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Janco’s masks played a large role in the anarchic dances at the Cabaret Voltaire. Created from various materials including scraps of cardboard, glue, paint, and hessian cloth they were left crumpled and torn with ragged …

Indefinite Divisibility by Yves Tanguy

Indefinite Divisibility by Yves Tanguy Indefinite Divisibility1942SurrealismOil on canvasAlbright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA “Indefinite Divisibility” juxtaposes bowls collecting water with anthropomorphic shadows cast by the form beside it to present the viewer with conflicting shapes vying for their attention. Dreams and everyday objects merge with the …

Night in Bologna by Paul Cadmus

Night in Bologna by Paul Cadmus Night in Bologna1958Social RealismEgg tempera on fibreboardSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA “Night in Bologna” depicts the longing and sexual desire of the subject in a tragicomic set in the evening hours amidst an arcade of arches and columns of classical Italian architecture. The solitary figure of an …

A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy

You did not come, And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb...

One Fine Day by Maria Callas

https://youtu.be/AR0SlCTj1Bo One Fine DayOpera Maria CallasOperaBorn: 2 December 1923, New York, USANationality: AmericanDied: 16 September 1977, Paris, France Maria Callas Callas was a soprano and one of the most influential opera singers of the 20th century. Critics acclaimed her bel canto technique, dramatic interpretations, and wide-ranging vocals. Ranging from classical opera to bel canto operas …

Photograph of Members of the Mochida Family Awaiting Evacuation by Dorothea Lange

Photograph of Members of the Mochida Family Awaiting Evacuation by Dorothea Lange Photograph of Members of the Mochida Family Awaiting Evacuation1942Documentary PhotographyPhotographThe Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA The Mochida family awaits an evacuation bus with their identification tags used to aid keeping the family unit together during the various phases of their …

Within Attraction by Yanni

https://youtu.be/2v9QfFuISJg Within Attraction1987New Age YanniNew AgeBorn: 14 November 1954, Kalamata, GreeceNationality: Greek-American Yanni Yanni is a keyboardist, pianist, composer, and music producer best known for blending jazz, classical, soft rock, and world music to create predominantly instrumental works. Yanni has received international recognition for his concerts at historic monuments such as the Acropolis, the Taj …

Half-And-Half by Naomi Shihab Nye

You can't be, says a Palestinian Christian on the first feast day after Ramadan...

El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) by Robert Hayden

The icy evil that struck his father down and ravished his mother into madness...

La petite sirène (The Little Siren) by Henri Laurens

La petite sirène (The Little Siren) by Henri Laurens La petite sirène (The Little Siren)1950SculptureBronzeMildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Inspired by Laurens' trip to the Brittany coast “La Petite Sirène” is part of a series of siren sculptures. Laurens depicts the treacherous mythical woman as an extension of the sea itself, …

Il Mare Calmo Della Sera by Andrea Bocelli

https://youtu.be/Xjl156IBVGY Il Mare Calmo Della Sera1994Classical Andrea BocelliOperaBorn: 22 September 1958, Lajatico, ItalyNationality: Italian Andrea Bocelli Bocelli is an operatic tenor and multi-instrumentalist. Diagnosed with congenital glaucoma at 5 months old he became blind at 12 years old after a soccer accident. Bocelli rose to fame in 1994 winning the preliminary round of the 44th …

Herrin Massacre by Paul Cadmus

Herrin Massacre by Paul Cadmus Herrin Massacre1939Social RealismOil and tempera on wood panelColumbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH. USA “Life” commissioned sixteen artists to paint significant events, Cadmus chose the Herrin Massacre, an event in the mining town of Herrin, Illinois, USA from 1922. A contract dispute between mine owners and striking miners that turned …

On an Overgrown Path by Leoš Janáček

https://youtu.be/V280ixNS5Jc On an Overgrown Path1921Classical Leoš JanáčekFolk, OperaBorn: 3 July 1854, Hukvsldy, CzechiaNationality: CzechDied: 12 August 1928, Ostrava, Czechia Leoš Janáček Janáček was a composer, folklorist, musical theorist, teacher, and publicist, inspired by Moravian and other Slavic music to create a modern musical style. He devoted himself to folkloristic research until 1895. Janáček’s early musical …

Wars & Rumours of Wars by Emanuel Xavier

I escape the horrors of war with a towel and a room...

Nightingale by Yanni

https://youtu.be/mfCca7M5r9A Nightingale1997New Age YanniNew AgeBorn: 14 November 1954, Kalamata, GreeceNationality: Greek-American Yanni Yanni is a keyboardist, pianist, composer, and music producer best known for blending jazz, classical, soft rock, and world music to create predominantly instrumental works. Yanni has received international recognition for his concerts at historic monuments such as the Acropolis, the Taj Mahal, …

Konstruktion in Emaille 1 by László Moholy-Nagy

Konstruktion in Emaille 1 by László Moholy-Nagy Konstruktion in Emaille 11922-23ConstructivismPorcelain enamel on steelGuggenheim Museum, New York, USA “Konstuktion in Emaille 1” is an abstract geometric composition consisting of a thick black vertical bar intersecting against the bare white background. A small yellow square outlined in red sits behind a thin red vertical line in …

Cities by Hilda Doolittle

Can we believe -- by an effort comfort our hearts:...

Glass by Robert Francis

Words of a poem should be glass But glass so simple-subtle its shape...

Konig Deramo (King Deramo) by Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Konig Deramo (King Deramo) by Sophie Taeuber-Arp Konig Deramo (King Deramo)1918DadaWood, Metal, Brass (painted), and TextileMuseum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland One of the marionettes created for Alfred Altherr’s Dada puppet show of Carlo Gozzi’s fairy-tale King Stag, Taeuber captured the satire of the 1913 split between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung in her dream-like designs. She …

Dolphin by Robert Lowell

My Dolphin, you only guide me by surprise, a captive as Racine, the man of craft...

La Femme aux Chats by Kees van Dongen

La Femme aux Chats by Kees van Dongen La Femme aux Chats1912ExpressionismOil on canvasNation Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA “La Femme aux Chats” depicts the unassuming subject of a young girl seated on her bed playing with her kittens as if unaware she is being watched. As is the case in many of van …

Girl at a Window by Balthus

Girl at a Window by Balthus Girl at a Window1957Interwar ClassicismOil on canvasMetropolitan Museum of Art, NY, USA A later work by Balthus “Girl at a Window” depicts a younger woman in mellow terms of interpersonal intensity but still conveys a psychological state akin to the romantic sublime. The artist incorporates a greater landscape element …

In the Beginning was the Image by Asger Jorn

In the Beginning was the Image by Asger Jorn In the Beginning was the Image1965AbstractAcrylic on canvas A highly abstracted work, “In the Beginning was the Image” is dominated by the primary colours red, yellow, and blue. From the swirling movement at its centre, larger fields of colour emerge towards the outer edges giving the …

Cinderella by Randall Jarrell

Her imaginary playmate was a grown-up In sea-coal satin. The flame-blue glances...

Greensleeves by Loreena McKennitt

https://youtu.be/LJ8uo8RDmqI Greensleeves1991New Age Loreena McKennittNew AgeBorn: 17 February 1957, Manitoba, CanadaNationality: Canadian Loreena McKennitt McKennitt is a singer-songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist best known for Celtic and Middle Eastern-influenced world music. She is also known for her refined soprano vocals. McKennitt has sold over 14 million albums worldwide

Fare Well by Walter de la Mare

When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes...

Santorini by Yanni

https://youtu.be/6l-lBaP1GzM Santorini1986New Age YanniNew AgeBorn: 14 November 1954, Kalamata, GreeceNationality: Greek-American Yanni Yanni is a keyboardist, pianist, composer, and music producer best known for blending jazz, classical, soft rock, and world music to create predominantly instrumental works. Yanni has received international recognition for his concerts at historic monuments such as the Acropolis, the Taj Mahal, …