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Van Goghs Favorites I: Xylographism unbound – The influence of illustrated journal graphics on the art of Vincent van Gogh.
Only in recent years has one gained the insight that Vincent van Gogh was not only a collector of Japanese graphic prints, like many of his artist colleagues, but was also imbued by a passion for the pictorial art of illustrated journals of his times. This was mainly thanks to two exhibitions: One, in spring […]
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The scalp in the grid. Menzel and the Development of the Illustrated Press
The critical opinion reviewers had of 19th-century German press drawings and illustration art was quite sobering in its overall tenor and can easily be reduced to: There’s Menzel, and that’s just about all. Indeed, it took until the late 1880s for the contours of draughtsmen with a profile of their own to be noticed… PDF: […]