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The surreal and ‘degenerate’ art of Alfred Kubin | Alfred kubin, Degenerate art, Visionary art

Dec 5, 2014 - Austro-Hungarian artist Alfred Kubin’s surreal imagery alienates viewers with the largely monochromatic dingyness of the world he created. His lithographs and pen and ink illustrations show influences of Goya and Edvard Munch, but it’s the the colorless, scratchy haze that makes these nightmares so affecting. Death, violence, fertility and fascism all play out in a dimension of strange physics, with revolting bodies and monstrous creatures. It’s fitting he got work illustrating the works of Poe and Dostoevsky. Kubin came by his haunting visions honestly—he was extremely troubled throughout his life. In 1896, he attempted suicide on...

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