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    Neo-Expressionism revived Australian landscape paintings’ through the reinterpretation of traditional virtuosity and the rejection of minimalistic forms (Atkins 2013, 171) from the late 1960’s through to the early 90’s (Keylor 2007, 904). The new concepts of Expressionism was also inspired by Surrealist themes from the Modernist period as well as mythology, culture, history and the erotic (The Art Story, 2016). Two Australian artists who create a new perception of the Australian landscape by incorporating

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    Wassily Kandinsky and Robert Rauschenberg had similar artwork in the sense that they were both abstract and modern artists, but they had many differences as well. Both took part in Expressionism and enjoyed the use bold colors within their pieces. Wassily strived to evoke emotions through his artwork; whereas, Rauschenberg rejected the seriousness of abstract artwork. Nonetheless, these artists created many famous pieces such as Beach Baskets in Holland by Kandinsky and Retroactive II by Rauschenberg

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    artists live in because the social movements change people's moods. For example, the Great Depression or more currently the Recession in 2008 when people who love are cannot afford to buy art, because they cannot even pay their mortgage. The expressionism movement was the beginning of the modern contemporary time in comparison to the realism movement are apples and oranges in the 1500s the artist hunt the organic objects they used to put in their pigment. These two different paintings are coming

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    John Shnabel

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    II. Key Ideas 1. His now famous "plate paintings" — large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates—received a boisterous and critical reception from the art world. His wild and expressive works were classed as neo-expressionism by art critics. In the years to follow Schnabel's success on the art market would above all be criticized. 2. Schnabel's style is characterised by very large scale paintings. He uses diverse materials such as plaster, wax, photographs, antlers, velvet and ceramics.

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    Van Gogh : Art And Art

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    impressionism and expressionism, sold only one painting in his lifetime, he remained a true genius. Some would say that Van Gogh failed to use impressionism to its correct form, but he wasn’t doing things by the book, he mixed two types of art and made a new style that we use today, known as post-impressionism. Look at “Starry Night” painted in June 1889, with oil paint on a canvas, sizing at 2′ 5″ x 3′ 0″. He painted an obvious masterpiece, a mixture of impressionism and expressionism. He painted what

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    Magic Realism In Art

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    years. Together the two phases spanned approximately four decades, with residual works after 1960. Magic Realism evolved during the Post-Expressionism movement in Weimar Germany. Connected with the Return to Order movement, Post-Expressionism exhibited fewer neoclassical instincts than the similar postwar realist trends in Italy and France. Post-Expressionism progressed by shedding Expressionism's emotionally charged nature and abstract style. This process moved much slower than the related trends

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    German Expressionism emerged in the 1920s prior to World War I, and continued to be influenced as the war raged on. The style that developed due to Germany’s ban on foreign cinema was an abstract, low-budget method cultivating around the rebellious and manic nature of the films. German Expressionism embodies the political ideals of the time because it was born from the ashes of World War I. Hanz Janowitz and Cal Mayer’s, The Cabinet of Dr. Cligari, directed by Robert Weine, can be said to have transformed

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    His artwork incorporated major distortion of figures, and went against everything “normal”. “Egon Schiele was one of the leading figures of Austrian Expressionism. Egon’s had a very unique and different style, which made him stand out from the rest of the artist of this time. Over time his work became more realistic, but also held his original style of being very expressionist (Vara). Schiele’s artwork

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    The prolific German painter Max Peiffer Watenphul was born in 1896 in Weferlingen and died in 1976 in Rome. Born to pharmacists family, Peiffer primarily studied medicine in Bonn; later, he followed his interests in law, eventually receiving a doctorate degree from the University in Würzburg (1918). Nevetheless, it was not the finish of his education. Peiffer, encouraged by his mother, immersed himself in painting as a young boy. Then, while his studies in Munich, his passion for fine arts recurred

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    Wassily who is Russian has painted this painting in Munich, Germany. In this painting there is a colorful swirl of activity of reds, pails blue, blacks, and yellows. The “First Abstract Watercolor” painting had largely the same impact in art as the eastern European art community as Picasso’s cubist “Les Damoiselles d e Avignon did in Paris around almost the same time. The difference between the two paintings were the sizes and the media that would account for its difference in the impact of the

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