Pictures From An Exhibition

(Painting and Sculpture of a Decade 54­G4 Tate Gallery London April­June 1964) No. 54 Jean Dubuffet 'Déclinaison de la Barbe' 1. 1959 'as­tu cuilli les fleurs de la barbe?' Jean Dubuffet I wander the dark pebbles of your mind picking beardflowers. No. 73 Joseph Cornell 'Hotel de l'Etoile' cool pillars of the hotel/in the night outside the stars are always so white/the sky is always so blue/silver moon waiting patiently. No. 84 Mark Rothko 'Reds ­ No. 229 x957 SCARLET ORANGE ORANGE ORANGE SCARLET CRIMSON SCARLET No. 291 Robert Rauschenberg 'windward' 1963 printed oranges are painted painted oranges are painted Angry skyline over the gasworks A Hawk sits brooding inside a painted rainbow. Nos. 10­13 Josef Albers, Studies for 'Homage to the Square' 1961 – 2 look. see. long ago. now. No. 314 Bernard Requichot 'Sans Titre ­ Chasse de papiers choisis' chasse aux papillons: `Here Be Tygers' – the fruit in the tin has a thousand eyes. No. 349 Jim Dine 'Black Bathroom No. 2' 1962 black splashes on the white walls interrupting the commercials TURN ON THE GLEAMING WHITE SINK AND POEMS COME OUT OF THE TAPS! No. 139 Victor Vasarely 'Supernovae' 1959 - 61 No. So Louise Nevelson 'Sky Cathedral III' 1960 Black Black Black Boxes Black Light Black Moonlight Black Emptiness Black Dust Black Boxes Black Black Black No. 247 Richard Diebenkorn 'Ingleside' 1963 Look through the Supermarket window/up the highway the hill rises steeply/hoardings and magnolias bright in the sunlight/white walls black freeways traffic signs at intersections/green lawns dark hedges/colours clear and bright as the packets in your wire basket.