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I came up with 15 more icons, all of the "Five Choirs" wallhanging by Gunta Stölzl (1928). (This work is also seen in part 1 of my Gunta Stölzl icons #4 and 7 and in part 2 #6.)

As before, you may use, save, share, and modify these icons as you wish. Comments and credit are appreciated, but not required. (Crediting Gunta Stölzl is way more important than crediting me!)

Previous icons of Gunta Stölzl's textile art were posted yesterday.

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Gunta Stölzl (1897-1983) was a German textile artist who ran the Bauhaus's weaving workshop for many years and helped shape its distinctive look. Her designs and leadership helped modernize the weaving workshop and make it the most commercially successful part of the Bauhaus, but she was only hired after agitation and campaigning by the students, even though she had been running the weaving workshop in all but name for years and had been responsible for it bringing in more money than any other department. She still was never given benefits or a permanent contract.

Some of these images are photos of rugs, tapestries, and hangings; others are sketches and plans for them.

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Free to good homes. Modification is fine. Credit and comments appreciated, not required. Previous Hilma af Klint icons here.

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After I watched that documentary about the women designers of the Bauhaus and learned that they were treated very poorly by all the faculty and that Paul Klee and Wasily Kandinsky didn't want to teach fine art to women, believing that they were "incapable" of it (because fine art needs creative genius, unlike crafts ...the exact false dichotomy opposed by the Arts & Crafts movement in the Victorian era), I got annoyed every time I saw my icons of their art in my icon browsing dialogue. So finally I have replaced all of them with icons of abstract art by Hilma af Klint and Gunta Stölzl (more on her later).

Hilma af Klint (1862 – 1944) was a Swedish painter and mystic who created some of the earliest abstract paintings in Western art - a considerable body of her work predates the first abstract compositions by eg Kandinsky and Mondrian. She belonged to a group of women called "The Five" who developed a complex structure of mystic beliefs influenced by Theosophy and stressing the use of séance. Her paintings, which sometimes resemble diagrams, were a visual representation of complex spiritual ideas. (Paraphrased from Wikipedia)

Most of her better-known paintings are enormous: see exhibition photos at for example The Guggenheim, Stockholm's Moderna Museet, Artblart.

Free to good homes. Modification is fine. Credit and comments appreciated, not required. I posted Hilma af Klint icons a few years ago already: pt.1 and pt. 2.

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Previous Corita Kent icons here. Free to download and modify.

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Love was one of the big themes in Corita Kent's work, so it seemed to make sense to separate it thematically.

There's another post of icons of Corita Kent's work (and some biographical background) from a few days ago.

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Corita Kent (November 20, 1918 – September 18, 1986), born Frances Elizabeth Kent, also known as Sister Mary Corita Kent, was an American artist influential in the pop art movement, particularly with anti-war messaging in the 60s-70s, and head of the art department at Immaculate Heart college. Kent's primary medium was screenprint, or serigraphy, and she is known for artworks that make use of screenprinting to remix product packaging. Tensions between Kent's order and Catholic church leaders mounted throughout the 1960s due to their strong anti-war messages, with the order, the college, and her artwork being criticized as "liberal", "communist" and "blasphemous". As a result Kent returned to secular life in 1968 and most of her sisters left the college and order. Kent's work includes the 1985 United States Postal Service stamp Love and the 1971 Rainbow Swash, the largest copyrighted work of art in the world, covering a 150-foot (46 m) high natural gas tank in Boston. Her popularity was already great in the 1950s and she was commissioned for hundreds of print series, winning awards and recognition from the 60s through the 80s, but has received critical recognition for her role in the pop art movement only in recent years. [Paraphrased from Wikipedia]

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Previous Matisse icons

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Previous Matisse icons here.

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Previous Matisse icons here.

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You may be interested in my previous Matisse icon posts (all the earlier posts are of his paper collage art).

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See also previous Matisse icons.

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Henri Matisse had already had a long career as one of the leading figures in the modern art movement before cancer surgery left him in a wheelchair and unable to paint any longer at the age of 74, in 1941. That same year Matisse began making cut-paper collages; his assistants helped prepare the collages for printing. The art book Jazz, issued in 1947, marked his public transition to a new medium of art and was very well received. The prints in the book, originally intended as magazine covers, were released as an artist's folio by the publisher in a limited edition printing accompanied by the artist's thoughts, and were inspired by his life experiences. (Paraphrased from Wikipedia)

These icons are free to download and modify. Comments and credit are appreciated, but not required!

You may also be interested in my previous Henri Matisse icons.

Part 3 will be either his line drawing faces or Jazz and the other figural cutout stuff, by the way.

You may also be interested in Henri Matisse icons, part 1.

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My previous William Morris wallpaper icons are here.

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1-2 Sunflower 3-4 Fruit
5 St James Ceiling 6-15 Acanthus

Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker and draughtsman who was one of the most well-known figures in modern art. He is generally regarded alongside Pablo Picasso as one of the foremost leaders in the revolutionary changes in Western art of the 20th century. His early paintings (starting in 1900) earned him a name as one of the Fauves. In later life, when he was prevented from painting by his health, he created an important body of work in the medium of cut-paper collage. — [Paraphrased from Wikipedia]

The coral and leaf shapes from his cut paper work are some of my favorites, and that's what you mostly see here.

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William Morris's "Strawberry Thief" was and remains his most popular pattern. Designed in 1883 as a printed textile for curtains and wallcoverings, it was inspired by a scene of thrushes stealing strawberries from the garden at Kelmscott Manor. The initial design had been drawn in the 1870s, but it took ten years to achieve the first successful printing because of the intricacy of the design and Morris's insistence on traditional methods.

Earlier William Morris wallpaper icons

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Previous posts of William Morris wallpaper icons can be found here.

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1-3 Pimpernel
4-6 Willow
7-13 Snakeshead
14-24 Willow Bough

These are all of the wallpaper called Bachelor's Button.

Previous Morris wallpaper icons here.

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