Maly GerhardusBesprekingen
Auteur van Symbolism and Art Nouveau (Phaidon 20th-century art)
Besprekingen
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They do make an attempt, however, at limning distinctive features of Expressionism. First, they write, painting was not at all used in a political sense. Expressionist pictures shares common elements, dominated by two-figure compositions. They tended to have an “uncouth and unruly style.” They created objects that came to exist in and through color, often composing pictures only of elements and fragments, evincing a previously unknown freedom of form.
The authors mention other aspects of Expressionism, but the best way to understand what it meant is to study the pictures themselves.
Artists shown include Max Bechmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka, August Macke, Franz Marc, and Emil Nolde, inter alia.
The artwork of this period and in this style is distinctive and fascinating, although I didn’t get a good sense of how to define it from the Introduction. Nevertheless, it is a book worth perusing for the plates along.½