Word: graphical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poland's Tadeusz Kulisiewicz, 62, Best Foreign Graphic Artist. One of the most representational of the exhibitors, Kulisiewicz is frugal of line, heavy in mood. His most striking work: The Dance of the Old Men, in which three aching figures hobble about on canes, their grotesque heads stiffly bobbing in rhythm...
...year-old Institute has assembled 34 portraits of 32 subjects by 30 noted workers in painting, sculpture, and graphic art. The result is by far the finest exhibit the Institute has yet offered in its new quarters as the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center...
Poland achieved its present standing almost in spite of itself. In its early years after World War II, the new Red regime was all for more and bigger posters; but like other countries in the Communist bloc, it favored the ponderous style of social realism. The graphic artists, led by the late Tadeusz Trepkowski, insisted on the right to something they called "emotional symbolism"- a highly charged, individual style in which mood and metaphor, as well as words, would carry the message. The artists won, and the poster became the first art form to be liberated from the long night...
...complete portfolio of his etchings, and some of Rembrandt's early work bears a strong resemblance to Callot's. Later, Hogarth was an avid collector; such diverse notables as Goethe and Sir Walter Scott were admirers; and Anatole France remembered having dreams about Callot's graphic nightmares. In the last movement of his first symphony, Gustav Mahler included a Funeral March in Callot's Manner...
Philip Hofer, curator of printing and graphic arts at the Harvard College Library, has devoted the energies of a lifetime to making this exhibit possible. His contributions form a considerable portion of the collection, and you may thank him, as director of the exhibit, for the well-spaced, esthetic scheme of display employed...