Memento Mori - Julie de Graag Art Print
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Memento Mori arrives as a skull carved out of jet black, a 1916 woodcut by Julie de Graag that stares through the ink without blinking. Look at the black and you can see wood grain streaking through it, faint rain inside the ink. Every tooth stands cut. The Dutch printmaker let her gouge chase white lines across temple and cheekbone, so bone seems to surface from soot one stripe at a time.
Behind the cranium an arch of bone white rises like a cemetery gate, then drops into a black band where the jaw rests its weight. That lower slab reads as earth. De Graag cut this relief print during a war her neutral Netherlands watched from the edge. Serif capitals on the Latin banner below carry a warning any passerby could read.
Nieuwe Kunst gave her the clean contour. From Japanese woodblock prints she learned how bare paper can carry heft. Her monogram A.J.D.G. sits small in the lower corner, an heir to the vanitas still lifes of the Dutch Golden Age. This skull art print keeps its ivory grin lit on your wall, cradled by an arch like a held note.
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Framed Art Prints
1. Vertical
Use the sawtooth hanger at the top middle on the back of the frame and hang it on a single screw or nail.
2. Horizontal
Hang the two sawtooth hangers on two screws or nails at the same heightPut two screws or nails in the wall at the same height, spaced the same distance apart as the two sawtooth hangers, then hang your print on them.
Framed Canvas
1. D-rings (most secure)
Screw a D-ring onto the back of the frame on the left and right, both at the same height. A ruler helps here. Then put two screws in the wall where you want your canvas, level with each other and spaced the same distance apart as the D-rings. A spirit level makes this easier. Finally, hook the D-rings onto the screws.
2. Straight onto screws
Keep it simple: put two screws in the wall at the same height and rest the inner lip at the top of the back of the frame on them.
1. Cost
Free shipping to Continental USA, Canada, UK, EU, AUS, NZ & more: see full list here.
2. Produced on Demand
Printed after you purchase at print labs across the USA, UK, EU & AUS. Produced, quality checked, packed with care and handed to trusted shipping carriers within 72-96 hours on average.
3. Production + Shipping =
USA: 4-9 days • Canada: 5-12 days • UK: 4-9 days • EU: 5-10 days • AUS: 4-9 days • NZ: 5-12 days • Rest of the world: 3-4 weeks
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