Art for Test

Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright, ‘Fallingwater’, 1935, South Pennsylvania, U.S.

Michelangelo Buonarotti, Vestibule of the Laurentian Library, 1524-6

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, ‘Seagram Building’, 1958, Park Avenue, New York

Ferrier Estate, London Borough of Greenwich, 1969-1971

Painting

Johannes Vermeer, ‘Woman in blue reading a letter’, 1663-1664, Rijksmuseum,

Amsterdam

Mark Rothko, 1958, Untitled. Sometimes called ‘Black on Maroon’. Third in the sequence of Seagram Room paintings in Tate Modern. Commissioned by the Four Seasons restaurant at the top of Seagram Building in New York. Rothko gave the paintings to the Tate instead.

"I hope to ruin the appetite of every son of a bitch who ever eats in that room with paintings that will make those rich bastards feel that they are trapped in a room where all the doors and windows are bricked up".

H.R. Giger, ‘Landscape XIV’, 1973. I did not feel able to show you ‘Landscape XX’.

Franscisco Goya, ‘Saturn devouring his son’, 1819-1823

J.M.W. Turner – ‘Snow Storm – steamboat off a harbour’s mouth’, 1842

Lascaux cave painting, France, unknown artist, c. 17,000 b.c

Sculpture

The ‘Venus of Willendorf’, unknown artist, 22,000-24,000 b.c

Michelangelo Buonarotti, ‘La Pieta’, 1498-1499, Rome

Headdress from Guinea, C16, artist unknown

Marcel Duchamp, ‘Fountain’, 1917

Photography

Richard Avedon, ‘Rudolf Nureyev, Paris, France July 25, 1961’

Portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, taken against the launching chains of the Great Eastern at Millwall in 1857

Man Ray, untitled, 1930

Tom Hunter, ‘Woman reading possession order’, 1988, cibachrome print

Literature

G: What should we say, my lord?

H: Why, any thing, but to the purpose. You were sent for…

G: My lord, we were sent for.

H: I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king and queen moult no feather. I have of late—but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.

R: My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts.

Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II Scene II, ‘What a piece of work is a man’ speech

ACT ISCENE ICastle battlements [Enter H, followed by G.]G: Oi! Mush!H: Yer?G: I was fucked![Exit G.]H: O Fuck.[Exit H.]

SCENE IIThe Throneroom.[Enter C, Ger, H, courtiers.]C: Oi! You, H, give over!H: Fuck off, won't you?[Exit C, Ger, courtiers.]H: (Alone) They could have fucking waited.[Enter Hor:.]Hor: Oi! Watcha cock!H: Weeeeey![Exeunt.]

SCENE IIIO's Bedroom.[Enter O and L.]L: I'm fucking off now. Watch H doesn't slip you one while I'm gone.O: I'll be fucked if he does.[Exeunt.]etc ‘The Skinhead Hamlet’, by Richard

Curtis – who also wrote ‘Blackadder’

I CAUGHT this morning morning's minion, king-  dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding  Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and stridingHigh there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wingIn his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,  As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding  Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hidingStirred for a bird, - the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!

Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here  Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billionTimes told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!

 No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillionShine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,  Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘The Windhover’, dedicated To Christ our Lord

Artist: Notorious B.I.G.Album: Ready to Die

Song: One more chance (remix)

 First things first, I poppa, freaks all the honeysDummies - playboy bunnies, those wantin’ moneyThose the ones I like ‘cause they don’t get nathan’But penetration, unless it smells like sanitationGarbage, I turn like doorknobsHeart throb, never, black and ugly as everHowever, I stay coochied down to the socksRings and watch filled with rocks

And my jam knock in the MitsubishiGirls pee pee when they see me, Nava-hoes creep me in they tee peeAs I lay down laws like I lay carpetStop it - if you think your gonna make a profit

[Rough (!) translation: As a general rule, I perform deviant sexual acts with women of all kinds, including but not limited to those with limited intellect, nude magazine models, and prostitutes. I particularly enjoy sexual encounters with the latter group as they are generally disappointed in the fact that they only receive normal intercourse unless they are exceptionally hygenic. Although I am extremely unattractive, I am able to engage in these types of sexual acts with some regularity. Perhaps my sexual success is somehow related to my fancy and expensive jewelry. I enjoy playing my music loudly on my car stereo. Apparently, women enjoy this also because they become sexually aroused when they see me driving. Oddly enough, when I visit the Native American reservations, some of the more sexually promiscuous Indian women attempt to seduce me in their homes as I tell them what to do. Their intent is to divest me of my earnings. Such actions are unacceptable.]

Music and Dance

We have listened to the:• ‘Chaconne’ by J.S. Bach, from the Sonatas and Partitas

for Unaccompanied Violin, played by Hilary Hahn.• ‘Grosse Fugue’, Op. 130, by L. Beethoven, played by the

Takacs Quartet.• ‘Prelude in C’ by J.S. Bach, played by Glenn Gould.

Movies

‘Casablanca’, 1942, with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman

Jean Cocteau, ‘Orphee’, 1950

Jean Marais, Maria Casares

‘Saving Private Ryan’, Steven Spielberg, 1997

Star Wars Episode IV, 1977, ‘A New Hope”