(Horse) evinces Carballo’s interest in depicting the masses and striations of muscle in both human and animal bodies, its slabs of living flesh at once formless and painfully strained. The isolation of the horse’s head from its body—no less, its…
The nightmarish qualities of Grassmann's Untitled draw upon rich, visual sources from nineteenth-century Symbolism to Surrealism. Prints by artists such as Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901) and Alfred Kubin (1877-1959), for example, fused Romantic concerns…