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Rebellious Landscapes – William James Linton´s art of graphic Macchia.
Lintoniana VI What had laid the foundations for Linton’s reputation as a leading proponent of artistic xylography in the 19th century was the extraordinary intensity of his landscape depictions and the graphic freedom that he allowed himself to this end. The apex of his decade-long landscape work was marked in the mid 1860s by the […]
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The Monsters of Society , L´Assiette au Beurre No. 79, 4 Octobre 1902
Following the traces of Honoré de Balzac, whose “Comédie humaine” was modelled on a theory of zoological species, Charles Lucien Léandre drafts a dire panorama of the Parisian Society as a freak show. His special edition for Samuel Schwarz´ anarchistic magazine “L Assiette au beurre” represents a late apocalyptic variation of a long tradition of […]
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Émile Cohl: Ils sont passés devant les nez déconfits (They pass by the depressed noses)
The MePri-Collections holds the original of a coloured poster, signed by Emile Cohl. Pierre Courtet-Cohl, the grandson of Emile Cohl was so kind to examine this large cartoon (84 x 49 cm) and it turned out, that the drawing was not only authentic, but also – as far as known – the only surviving example […]
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Ikonolog: Tree (pencil on paper, digital collage, 2007/08)
The sequence of images from Matthias Reinhold’s “Ikonolog” (www.ikonolog.de) represents the rhizomatic structural idea of his drawing project, which aims for infinite permeability and ramification. Aperspectival, organismic spatial experiences and observations of vegetative growth are poetically combined here with analytical fields of technical construction and explosion graphics, i.e. with ways of drawing that expose functional […]
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Thomas Nast: «Dead Men´s Clothes Soon Wear Out»
This drawing by Thomas Nast, in the MePri-Collection, is a very precise preliminary study for one of his best-known political cartoons. The wood engraving made from this 18 x 22.5 cm sketch filled a large-format double page spread in “Harpers Weekly”, the most widely circulated American illustrated magazine of the time, on 10 September 1870. […]
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Laptop in Chinese
Matthias Reinhold attended a six-month course dealing with traditional Chinese painting at the China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou, in southeast China. He presents a report for the MePri on the teachings conveyed at the art academy in the field of tension between classical landscape painting and the present-day reality of life, and on the […]
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Robert Weaver II – Split-Level Books
In the 1980s, frustrated by the increasing restrictions in the field of magazine design, Weaver shifted the focus of his activities more and more to teaching at the New York Visual School of Arts and expanded a loose sequence of diary-like motif books he began with in the 1970s to form an independent complex of […]