Alfred Kubin — The Great Head | Symbolist Fine Art Print

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Alfred Kubin — The Great Head | Symbolist Fine Art PrintAlfred Kubin (18771959) was an Austrian symbolist draughtsman, printmaker, and novelist who produced some of the most psychologically disturbing drawings in the history of art nightmarish visions of death, monsters, chaos, and the absurdity of existence rendered with a scratchy, obsessive pen line that has no equivalent in Western graphic art. A friend of Kandinsky and Paul Klee, and a member of the Blaue Reiter circle, he illustrated dozens of

the Khamsa of Nizami

and Harper's defined the visual culture of the progressive era

and Safavid dynasties between the 13th and 17th centuries

and the infinite suggestion of blue

women — have an intimacy and psychological penetration that distinguishes them from the more theatrical strand of Orientalism

Tokuriki Tomikichiro (1902–2000) was a Kyoto-based Sōsaku-hanga printmaker and influential teacher who combined traditional Japanese woodblock techniques with a boldly modern design sensibility

and large-scale mural commissions

rendered in a bold Art Nouveau-adjacent graphic style

Influenced by both Degas and Japanese woodblock prints

he worked in painting

This vintage advertisement — bold blue and yellow typography against a clean ground — reflects the confident graphic design of mid-century Dutch commercial printing

His works — musicians

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