4. Norbert Freese
(b. 1947)

Adornment to a Crucifixion

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Adornment to a Crucifixion

Adornment to a Crucifixion

Ink drawing, 1998, 160 x 120 mm., drawn over and in the margins of a woodcut by Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550). The giant birds don't tip the scale of reason here so much as do the drawn extensions of the imperfections in the woodblock. The birds, in fact, seem a perfectly natural enhancement of the scene, because if there were not birds then there would be those other winged creatures, angels. Signed and dated.

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