Joseph Vavak
(no dates available)
Give, 1940
lithograph
on paper, 8 by 12 inches
Illinois State
Museum collection
The artist placed the figures toward the front of the pictorial space, near the picture plane (front wall of the picture space). What feeling does this arrangment give you?
The
eyes of these people are not drawn in. What do you think and feel about
this?
In this lithograph Vavak depicts a scene that was probably common in Chicago during the Depression, when thousands of people were out of work.
Joseph Vavak was born in Vienna, Austria. He studied art in Paris and Chicago.