Alfred Kubin — Man | Symbolist Fine Art Print

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Alfred Kubin — Man | 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

with its stark geometric forms

searching intelligence behind his canvases

Satanic grandeur

His landscapes have the movement's characteristic atmospheric delicacy

comprising hundreds of nested squares in subtly varied colour combinations

hotel rooms

Saul Bass's poster for Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder (1959) is a masterwork of graphic design: a dismembered body rendered as a flat paper cutout in jazz-club black and white

anti-institutional Zen

Josep Tapiró i Baró (1836–1913) was a Spanish painter who settled in Tangier in the 1870s and devoted forty years to painting the people

Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–1889) was one of the most brilliant and irreverent painters of Meiji Japan — a virtuoso draughtsman who studied both the Kanō school and ukiyo-e traditions before developing a wildly individual style that combined supernatural imagery

and impermanence into a single composed image

dynamic pose

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