atlas of the photographs, collages and sketches

helmut friedel and ulrich wilmes - gerhard richter: atlas of the photographs, collages and sketches - d.a.p. in association with anthony d'offay london and marian goodman new york - 1997

post inspired by last night's viewing of corinna belz's film gerhard richter - painting - 2011

circles - tristesse engraved

how soon unaccountable i became tired and sick,
till rising and gliding out i wander’d off by myself,
in the mystical moist night-air,
and from time to time,
look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.*
capturing light - walt whitman -
when i heard the learn’d astonomer

images -
séraphine louis - fruit (frucht)
william langenheim and frederick langenheim - eclipse - 26 may 1854
susan derges - chladni figures - 1985
anders ritter von ettingshausen - section of clematis - 4 march 1840
rosalind franklin and r.c. gosling - x-ray diffraction patterns of a and b forms of sodium salt of dna - 1952
amédée guillemin - polychrome interference patterns, le monde physique - 1882
susan derges - hermetica (detail) - 1993
giuseppe pellizza da volpedo - the rising sun - 1904
alfred stevens - the milky way - 1885-1886

various image selections of mine have been included in the september issue of tristesse engraved - please take a look at it .
(many thanks to jez riley french for his generous efforts in helping to get this all out on time)

carl gustav carus - morning fog - 1825

carl gustav carus - a gondola on the elbe near dresden - 1827

carl gustav carus - die frau auf dem söller - 1824

carl gustav carus - cemetery on mount oybin - 1828

philipp otto runge

some lesser known germans

the stars are clear sounds; the sun a magnificent silence; the moon?...whispers that are almost sounds in the undulating wave of noise the universe is

cracks in stan brakhage's dog star man - prelude - 1964

painting in dog star man - prelude

painting and some scratching in dog star man, part 3.

- related work -

jackson pollock - triad - 1948

jackson pollock - number 22a, 1948 - 1948

jackson pollock - untitled ca. 1950 (detail)

jackson pollock - one: number 31 - 1950

jackson pollock

barnett newman - untitled - 1961

clyfford still - painting - 1951-52

clyfford still - untitled (ph-58) - 1951 - detail
(one of my favourite paintings in the sfmoma)

robert motherwell - untitled - 1967

robert motherwell - octavio paz, three poems 8 - 1987

robert motherwell - in plato's cave

robert rauschenberg - untitled (glossy black painting) - ca. 1951

alberto burri - cretto - 1973

lucio fontana - concetto spaziale - 1952

(title from brakhage's the stars are beautiful)