Woodcuts by Masereel

I love these woodcuts. they're from a book called "the city" and work as a social commentary of city life in the mid 1920's.

• The first motorcars and the first awareness of pollution in city atmospheres

• proletarian icons are also used, which suggests early sovietism

• The wealth divide and homelessness

• fear created by occurances such as murder

• Mundaneness of a working class and possibly soviet lifestyle.

The style of the illustrations themselves is of great appeal to me. the monotone stamp effect is something i've been interested in for a while but never really experimented with.

Monoprinting this week?