Merz 3 Kurt Schwitters 6 Lithos Pl7 by Kurt Schwitters Illustration divorced from scale and context

divorced from scale and context

primary-adjacent colour fields

rendered in the cool

green and blue build a sense of depth without relying on fine detail

There is a hand-made quality to the linework that grounds the image in the tactile

Merz 3 Kurt Schwitters 6 Lithos Pl7 by Kurt Schwitters Illustration divorced from scale and contextPlate 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