John James Audubon — Statement Duo: Greater Tern | Ornithological Print Pair

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John James Audubon — Statement Duo: Greater Tern | Ornithological Print PairJohn James Audubon (17851851) was an American ornithologist and painter whose Birds of America (18271838) remains the most celebrated work of natural history illustration ever produced 435 life size hand coloured aquatint engravings of every species of bird in North America, executed with a combination of scientific accuracy and painterly drama that no subsequent ornithological work has surpassed. Now held in museums and private collections worldwide,

part proto-Expressionism

and Safavid dynasties between the 13th and 17th centuries

heraldic design

His Bauhaus-period works — the Kestnermappe compositions

Johannes Vermeer

painted in ink with such spontaneous confidence and comic observation that it became one of the most beloved images in Japanese art history

Bold in colour

The Bauhaus school (1919–1933) was the most influential art and design institution in history — the school that fused fine art

guards in sumptuous palace corridors — are among the most sumptuously detailed works of the entire Orientalist movement

His Moorish portraits — studies of individual men and women in their domestic and religious environments — have a directness and psychological depth that sets them apart from the fantasy Orientalism of his Parisian contemporaries

Printed in vintage Bangla typography

and allegorical compositions of extraordinary refinement

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