Review Brooks Museum: Abrecht Durer's Small Passion & Claire Van Vliet: Illustrating Babel

ALBRECHT DURER’S SMALL PASSION SERIES: This current display (runs through 10/27) feature a series of prints from this probably most famous German renaissance printmaker. The displayed images are woodcuts, a type of printing where the design is cut into a block of wood. He published a number of illustrated including The Apocalypse, The Large Passion and The Small Passion. The current exhibit includes one example of the Large Passion, and thirty five out of thirty six illustrations and the title page of the Small Passion. CLAIRE VAN VLIET; ILLUSTRATING BABEL: This artist utilizes lithography to illustrate BUILDERS OF BABEL, TEN PORTRATS. In lithography, the artist draws directly on a stone using a greasy crayon. These drawn marks are translating during the printing process, allowing the viewer to see the artist’s smallest gestures. She also utilized wood engraving for some of the displayed prints. This display includes Illustrations for The Great Wall and Tower of Bable and Paradoxes by Franz Kafka & Builders of Babel: Ten Portraits for selections from Book of Proverbs.