Winter Landscape with a Monument

The title indicates a winter scene anchored by a built monument — a recurring motif in Poskovic's practice that fuses landscape tradition with the iconography of memorial and ruin. In the artist's large color woodcuts of this period, snow-covered ground typically reads as broad fields of unprinted or pale paper set against blocks carrying linear architectural detail. Multi-block color registration permits tonal layering across the picture plane, with the monument silhouetted as a darker mass within atmospheric haze. The composition invites association with Caspar David Friedrich's Romantic precedents, though Poskovic translates that European pictorial vocabulary through a process that emphasizes the carved gesture and the grain of the woodblock. Monuments throughout his work — obelisks, plinths, half-buried structures — carry residues of Balkan twentieth-century history, where commemorative objects often outlasted the regimes that erected them. The 2015 date places this print within his mid-career production at the University of Michigan, where his studio output increasingly tested the upper limits of printable scale on washi and other long-fiber papers.