Merz 3 Kurt Schwitters 6 Lithos Pl7 by Kurt Schwitters Edward Hopper the open fields of colour

the open fields of colour and the precise geometry that anchors them are captured with complete clarity — a fine art print that rewards a calm

the kind of image that holds attention because it commits fully to its own absurd logic without ever winking at the viewer

Henry Hu renders the macro world with a cool

demonstrating that Klimt's decorative instinct was equally at home in the natural world as in the studio

It shows his wife Suzanne

Merz 3 Kurt Schwitters 6 Lithos Pl7 by Kurt Schwitters Edward Hopper the open fields of colourPlate 7 closes the Merz 3 lithograph series with a composition of considered restraint angular forms hold against soft ground, and the interplay of positive and negative space gives the work an open, almost meditative quality. Where earlier plates in the series lean toward visual density, Pl7 breathes. It is a fitting end to a portfolio that mapped the full range of Schwitters' graphic imagination, from accumulation to economy, within the Merz