A Page from the #DrawingPapers Archive This page from Drawing Papers 119 features Towel Head, a graphite on paper drawing created by #XantiSchawinsky in 1945. The 2014 exhibition Xanti Schawinsky: Head Drawings and Faces of War was a look at first generation #Bauhaus artist Alexander ‘Xanti’ Schawinsky’s prolific oeuvre, which encompassed a range of social and political investigations. The exhibition focused on two bodies of work Schawinsky made between 1941 and 1946, Faces of War and the Head Drawings. The Faces of War break from the utopian optimism of the early Bauhaus and reveal the existential struggle of an artist coping with identity and the devastation of war. The Head Drawings explore the hybridization of objects and humanoid forms by way of visual puns on materials and countenances. Executed in graphite on paper, their drawing style combines soft and sharp mark-making to create images that are elegant, intricate, delicate, and assertive. The Drawing Papers are a series of ...