Now that there are a number of the prints visible, (You can see past post in the archive), It is obvious there is considerable variation from one plate to another. Some are literal while others are more abstract. I think that it is easy to see that modern art work in Europe and the Americas was in large part a reaction to various primitive art forms.

As early as Albrecht Durer's life time, 1471-1528, European artist were viewing exhibitions of art from “ The New World”. Durer wrote in his artist diary that he viewed a group of works in Brussels Belgium. He wrote that they were a pleasure to behold. Do you think that Rembrandt Van Rijn , 1606-1669 , might have been influenced likewise? While Rembrandt is known as a painter, he like Durer was also a print maker, working in the Intaglio process. The American Indians were using the Intaglio process 3500 years ago. The point here is that European artist had been studding Indigenous American artifacts for nearly 400 years by the time that the Armory Show was held in New York City in 1913! Many authority's consider the Armory Show to be the beginning of the Modern period in America.

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