Word: otherworld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though they might easily be insufferably cute, Wiinblad's figures are always redeemed by a caricaturist's humor and a painter's technical skill. Also in the show: textiles with Wiinblad faces that look like otherworld creatures peering from flying saucer portholes, and a collection of bright, bold posters (Wiinblad has done them for everybody from Danish music societies to the Marshall Plan). Standout poster: an exhortation to Danes to be musical ("Play Yourself"), showing a sprightly young lady playing a bow across strands of her hair, an almost perfect illustration of a famed T.S. Eliot line...