Painting
Frans Hals - Two Paintings ("Regentesses of the Old Men's Alms House" and "Regents of the Old Men's Alms House") - c. 1664
“Hans, an old man of over eighty, was destitute. Most of his life he had been in debt. During the winter of 1664, the year he began painting these pictures, he obtained three loads of peat on public charity, otherwise he would have frozen to death. Those who now sat for him were the administrators of such public charity… In this confrontation of the Regents and Regentesses stare at Hals, a destitute old painter who has lost his reputation and lives off public charity; he examines them through the eyes of a pauper who must nevertheless try to be objective, i.e., must try to surmount the way he sees as a pauper. This is the drama of these paintings.”
- John Berger, from Ways of Seeing
Renoir - "Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children" - 1878
Alex Katz, "Sunny #4" - 1971
"Rain, Steam, and Speed - 1844 - J.M.W. Turner
Marc Chagall - "Couple with Bird" - 1952
Titian - Portrait of Cardinal Filippo Archinto - 1558
Lorenzo Costa - "Virgin & Child" - 1492
John Berger, from "Ways of Seeing"
“If we accept that we can see that hill over there, we propose that from that hill we can be seen.
The reciprocal nature of vision is more fundamental than that of spoken dialogue.
And often dialogue is an attempt to verbalize this—an attempt to explain how, either metaphorically or literally, ‘you see things’, and an attempt to discover how ‘he sees things.’”
Rene Magritte - “The Interpretation of Dreams” - 1935
Agnolo Bronzino - “Venus, Cupid, Time, and Love” - 1545
Johannes Vermeer - “Maid with Milk Jug” - 1657
Dante Rossetti - "Love's Greeting" - 1861
Daphnis and Chloe
by John-Pierre Cortot, at The Louvre
Francois Gerard - 1825
Simeon Solomon - "Annunication"
Jan Brueghel & Peter Paul Rubens - "The Sense of Sight", 1617
Trina Schart Hyman from "Two Queens of Heaven"
Jack Whitten - 'Quantum Wall VIII (for Arshile Gorky, My First Love in Painting' (2017)
Jeff Aeling - "Pond East of Dodge City, KS" (2009)
Katherine Lewis - "Swimmers" (2024)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - "Young Woman with Raised Arms" (1895)
Gerhard Richter - "Four Paintings"
Dorf (Village) - 1988
Verwaltungsgebäude (Administrative Building), 1964
Fenster (Window), 2002
Lesende (Reader), 1994