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A monochrome print of a face revealed through two horizontal tears in paper. The upper slit exposes a pair of eyes, while the lower tear shows closed lips. On the right side, the torn edges curl backwards.
The Little Window
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

The Little Window

Artist Oldrich Kulhánek (Czech, 1940-2013)
Date1987
MediumLithograph
Dimensions19 1/2 x 14 7/8 in. (49.5 x 37.8 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Melvin and Lorna Rubin
Object number1995.27.102
Collections
Visual DescriptionA monochrome print of a face revealed through two horizontal tears in paper. The upper slit exposes a pair of eyes, while the lower tear shows closed lips. On the right side, the torn edges curl backwards.
A print of two vertically stacked mouths crossed by translucent strips. The top mouth has parted lips above the red text "How are you?". The bottom mouth shows teeth above the red text "I am fine!".
How Are You?
Oldrich Kulhánek
1991
A print featuring a central rectangle filled with fragmented, overlapping drawings of human lips and mouths. The surrounding border consists of a faded document covered in dense typed text and red and black handwriting.
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Oldrich Kulhánek
1990
A monochrome print of two hands with fingers gently intertwined, pointing upwards. Faint concentric lines radiate behind the fingertips. Handwritten text below includes a dedication, signatures, the date September 19, 1992, and the word "INTERTWINED".
Intertwined
Oldrich Kulhánek
1992
A monochrome print of three vertically stacked, overlapping faces. The top face has hands covering its eyes, the middle face has fingers plugging its ears, and the bottom face has clasped hands covering its mouth.
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil
Oldrich Kulhánek
1991
A monochrome print featuring a 3x3 grid of men's faces with exaggerated, distorted expressions. Each portrait includes a bright red sphere clown nose in a different location, such as on the nose, forehead, cheek, or in the mouth.
Clowniade of the Stupids
Oldrich Kulhánek
1988
A monochrome print featuring a head wrapped in thick, flat bands obscuring the face. A detailed hand rests against these bands. The top of the head dissolves into a hazy texture, framed by two vertical white stripes.
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Oldrich Kulhánek
1984
A print of a man, facing slightly to the right. A large hand rests palm-up on his head with a dark oval object in its palm. A textured horizontal band crosses his forehead, and a thin rod pierces his neck, showing a red drop.
Homage to Matthias Grunewald
Oldrich Kulhánek
1990
An off-white print featuring the poem "Another August" By James Merrill in orange text on the left. Beside it is a soft, sweeping sketch of tall trees and a tiny figure on a path, rendered in pale blue, green, and brown. The poem reads: Pines. The white, ochre-pocked houses. Sky unflawed. Upon so much former strangeness a calm settles, glaze of custom to be neither shattered nor shattered by. Home. Home at last. Years past—blind, tattering wind, hail, tears—my head was in those clouds that now…
Another August
George Lockwood
1968
A winged figure sits in front of a painting blowing smoke at it; a sickle tears through the canvas.
Time Smoking a Picture
William Hogarth
1802
A black and white print showing a large, detailed hand with spread fingers reaching upwards from the bottom. Above the hand is a faint, rectangular scene depicting several hazy figures in motion.
Holocaust No. 5
Oldrich Kulhánek
1985
A print featuring three pig heads. The central pig is positioned lower with its mouth wide open, showing teeth. It is flanked by two larger pig heads; the left points its snout upward and the right faces forward.
Who is Who?
Oldrich Kulhánek
1991
A print with the text "RICERCARI IN OMAGGIO" above an oval portrait of a bearded man, inscribed "al Sig. CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI". The central portrait is surrounded by detailed string and wind musical instruments and an open book below.
In Omaggio
Oldrich Kulhánek
1972

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