Category: Artworks

Bold Dutch lettering dominates the top—“VEILIGE STEIGERS ROND ELK HUIS”—setting an urgent, practical tone for Gé Hurkmans’s 1939 poster about safe scaffolding around every home. The design is all angles and compression: thick poles lash together with rope, platforms stack upward, and diagonal braces push the eye through a tight, industrial space. A limited palette…

Bold letters shout “WERK VEILIG!” across the top of this striking 1950 poster by N. Olthuis, turning a simple safety message into something you can almost hear on a factory floor. A worker’s profile, rendered in cool greens and deep blues, leans toward a grinding wheel as bright sparks flare outward in sharp, orange strokes.…

Bold yellow dominates this 1963 design, where a cartoon sailor in a red-and-white striped shirt tumbles mid-air, arms flailing as a slipper flies off. The exaggerated motion lines and playful expression sell the gag instantly, while the chunky red word “SLIPPERS” anchors the composition with a rough, brushy texture that feels both energetic and slightly…

A folded sheet of pale paper rises from a dark backdrop, turning a simple cut-out into a small standing sculpture. The face is split into two profiles that meet in the center, their eyes marked by tight spirals and their expressions suggested with the lightest pencil lines. Creases and shadows do as much work as…

At 89 years old in 1971, the subject of this artwork appears not as a posed portrait, but as a lived-in presence—eyes widened, features boldly simplified, and a hand raised near the face as if caught mid-thought. Thick, confident brushwork carves the figure into planes of gray, green, and muted earth tones, while dark contour…

A single figure—Winnie the Pooh—appears in spare, confident linework, posed in profile with his head tilted upward as if listening or thinking. The drawing relies on quick, expressive strokes and soft shading to suggest fur, weight, and a gentle slump of shoulders, leaving most of the page as clean negative space. That simplicity gives the…

Across a wide, white-draped table, Winnie the Pooh sits in quiet companionship while a child bends over a page, absorbed in the small seriousness of writing. Ernest Howard Shepard’s line work makes the scene feel both intimate and spacious, with the bare background giving every scratch of ink room to breathe. A tiny inkwell and…

A taut mouth, drawn slightly to one side, turns the sitter’s face into a study of discomfort, as if the very idea of “disgust” has been carefully posed for the camera. The man’s shirt hangs open and rumpled, his arms folded in a guarded stance that makes the expression feel more deliberate than fleeting. A…

A tense profile emerges from the sepia haze: a seated woman in a plain, high-necked dress, hair pulled back, mouth parted as if caught mid-exclamation. Two unseen attendants intrude into the frame, one steadying her from the front while another holds a small metal device above her head, its wires or probes seeming to touch…

A blindfolded man stands at a workbench, one hand poised over a nail while the other raises a heavy mallet high above his own head. The simple linework turns an everyday carpentry gesture into a tense psychological scene, where precision and self-inflicted danger occupy the same moment. In the context of Roland Topor’s 1960 illustration,…