Expressionism

The Tortured Mastermind Born in the 19th century, the Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh has left a prominent mark in the world of art. Van Gogh’s work influenced the Expressionism era and many of the popular artists we revere today, Pablo Picasso being one of them (pablopicasso.org). However, despite his current roaring fame, Van Gogh gained little recognition in his time (bbc.co.uk). Initially, the art he created had seemed unappealing to the public due the dark colors and depressing nature; also, Van

Female artists were beginning to explore their sexuality in an assertive and unashamed manner such like Suzanne Valadon depicted in her Adam and Eve painting. With the promising faith of the early 20th century expressionism and avant-garde, female artists relied on these styles to bask in the glory of voicing out their displeased rhetoric concerning war and the social events that were happening around them. Female artists like Kathe Kollwitz is famously acknowledged

`The Weimar republic was undermined by the radical culture which grew in the 1920’s` The 1920’s was the time for expressive art culture, which saw to inspire the nation to become more expressive and revolutionised the way people thought about German life, especially German politics. Having previously lived under authoritarian government, where entertainment and social activities were tightly regulated, many Germans thrived on the relaxed social attitudes of Weimar. The influx of American loans and

helped shape the way art is viewed today. One his most popular paintings that is universally attributed to his name is The Scream, which was painted in 1893. He incorporated symbolism into many of his paintings, which greatly influenced German expressionism. Edvard Munch lived a very successful artistic life , but encountered many traumatic experiences. Edvard Munch was born on December 12, 1863, in Löten,Norway. One year later, his family moved to Oslo, Norway. Soon after, his mother

This essay will compare and contrast the work of Jackson Pollock and Chuck Close, specifically the Abstract Expressionist Number 1A of 1948 and the photorealist Self-Portrait of 1991. I will explore the similarities in the process of these two artists, despite their end result appearing to be poles apart. Both artists are and were as obsessed with the process of making art as much as with the outcome. Close and Pollock both employed highly inventive techniques and cultivated a signature style that

Rorimer writes in the group reading text, Introduction, about the evolution of art. She notes the writings of Clement Greenberg and his ideas of modernism and its differences from postmodernism. Postmodernism is directly derived from abstract expressionism and shows the evolution from painting to sculpture. Simply, modernists say their paintings are about the paint used to create them, whereas postmodernist believe that paintings are about the painting themselves. Support for the idea that postmodernism

museum visitor’s reaction is to this Pollack-like painting, and indirectly so, what their own opinion is. At the time, Pollack was the latest buzz and one of the highest paid artist’s in America. While we know that Rockwell appreciates abstract expressionism, we can understand his shock when he learned that such a large audience was embracing these spontaneous splatters of paint and calling it art. His work was just the opposite: it was realistic, and ever-so carefully planned and thought-out. Another

I visited Los Angeles County Museum of Art for the exhibition named “Form in Fragments: Abstraction in German Art, 1906-1925” which highlighted in abstraction in German Expressionism. The exhibition was composed of over 60 works including works by Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Lyonel Feininger, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Erich Heckel, Otto Dix, and an abstract film by Hans Richter. Among the many works on view, one of the Paul Klee’s prints titled Hoffmannesque Scene caught my eye. Hoffmannesque

Caligari was created during the period of Expressionism, where artist made artwork which attempted to make an individual question the emotions they felt. Expressed in a different way, Expressionism was more than just art that made someone question their own feelings. It tried to create emotional responses or feelings that are not normally felt when looking at art. Some

Freud. I found this very interesting since Munch himself lived a very tough life himself. Munch began to express his tormented inner world through his artistic creations, giving birth to an art style that would later be known as Expressionism (Art Analysis). Expressionism is defined as a form of art in which visual appearances are distorted to express psychological or emotional states (Getlein, 551). I believe that Scream may have been the very beginning of this form of art, since Scream evokes such