Poster: Holländische Kunstausstellung (Dutch Art Exhibition in Krefeld) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Posted by Chelsea Butkowski on August 14, 2014

$Above and below the central text field, the designer creates an abstract curvilinear pattern of fractured tulips in black and white, set against a bright gold ground. Two circular orange elements, which could refer to lady bugs or other insects, anchor the composition at the center. The areas of dense black patterning are echoed in the horizontal and vertical lines framing each of the fields and the entire poster.$

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