The Black and White Thread 2

I'm restarting this. the old one takes soooo long to load.

Purely for my own education, I have made a list of the artists we enjoyed on the previous thread:

Frans Masereel
Chen Rong
Felicien Rops
Ann Jonas
Breughel
Jan Svankmajer
Frantisek Kupka
Otto Greiner
Alfred Stevens
Charles Neyt
Aubrey Beardsley
Leonor Fini
Maxfield Parish
Jan Saenredam
Gabriel Metsu
Hendrick Goltzius
Henricus Hondius
Harry Clarke
Hugo Steiner Prag
Charles Seliger
Adolf Hoffmeister
Albert Robida
Alfred Rethel
Félix Labisse
John Lennon
Franz von Bayros
Buonamico Buffalmacco
Albin Brunovsky

Thanks to all for your contributions.

Thomas Allom was an architectural engraver who made some trips to China in the early 19th century. I love his engravings of scenes from chinese life (although, interestingly, my Taiwanese partner finds the opium smokers offensive)



An itinerant barber



Opium Smokers



Chinese Wedding Party



The House of Conseequa



The Fountain Court in Conseequa's House

Very interesting.

I suppose you know Arnold Genthe's photos of San Francisco's turn-of-the-century Chinatown?

Reginald Marsh - Girl Walking
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http://www.librarything.com/pic/243345

That's excellent.

http://bit.ly/m4BxVO

And that's excellent. Not the sort of image comes to mind first when most think of Kollwitz, I bet.

War victims? Mother and child war victims?

I love the ghostly bum behind Girl Walking.

http://www.librarything.com/pic/244195
The Maker of Moons - Robert W. Chambers