Alfred Kubin — The Last King | Symbolist Fine Art Print

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Alfred Kubin — The Last King | 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

his compositions rely on bold line

he developed a systematic theory of colour and form set out in Concerning the Spiritual in Art and Point and Line to Plane

and small creatures rendered with extraordinary delicacy and emotional restraint

He is now recognised as a key figure in the development of modern art in the Americas

Ramon Casas (1866–1932) was the leading Spanish modernista painter and illustrator of his generation

Bachi Dōjin was an Edo-period Japanese literati painter whose work falls within the bunjinga tradition — the ink-painting school influenced by Chinese literati ideals of scholarly cultivation

His interiors — musicians in tiled courtyards

and Cursive Script — each with its own aesthetic logic and historical development

in the intervals between writing

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

Unlike decorative or scholarly calligraphy

His posters for Campari

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