For me, the painting is unsettling to look at, with distorted perspective and unnatural colors. I assume the idea was to depict the anxieties of urban life. None of the subjects in the scene appear to be interacting. Also, notice the colors used for the faces of the subjects - vivid reds and dull yellows. Far from realistic, but that is of course the intention of the painting.
Kandinsky believed the rider symbolized a connection between the physical and spiritual worlds and he aimed for his artwork to do the same. Kandinsky was one of the first artists of the movement to experiment with complete abstraction, like in his painting below. In his publication, "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" he discussed how he sought to encourage spirituality through his art.
He believed this would lead to an enlightened and liberated society. He sought to create a new system of assigning color to emotions and ideas. For example, Marc believed blue represents masculine qualities and yellow represented feminine qualities. Many of his works depict animals, as he believed they were purer than humans. His painting below depicts numerous animals in a visually fragmented composition filled with bright colors and sharp angular forms.
However, it paved the way for the later movements of Abstract Expressionism and Neo-Expressionism. As youth, we carry the future and want to create for ourselves freedom of life and of movement against the long-established older forces. Everyone who reproduces that which drives him to creation with directness and authenticity belongs to us.
Form is a mystery to us for it is the expression of mysterious powers Our senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible. If you want to learn more about color mixing and painting in general, I invite you to join my free email course, 7 Days to Better Paintings. Expressionism by Norbert Wolf. Wiki Art - Expressionism - Features many paintings of Expressionist artists. Wikipedia - Expressionism - General information on the movement. Affiliate disclosure: There may be affiliate links to recommended products in this post.
Der Blaue Reiter merged these ideas, creating a completely new branch of Expressionism that influences modern art to this day. As seen by these artists below, Expressionism continues to grow in popularity and is still practiced in the 21st century. Here are three artists who brought their own unique Expressionist energy to different moments over the past years. But how can something as complex as love make its way onto a canvas?
It is the color of love. After fleeing the jailing of Jewish artists in St. Petersburg and studying art in Paris in the early 20th century, Chagall returned to his hometown of Vitebsk, Russia to develop his Expressionist style. Taking what he learned from the Surrealists and Fauves in Paris, Chagall built upon their traditions of channeling the unconscious and abandoning realist form to render pure emotions through his artwork.
While his works maintain some connection to form as opposed to fully embracing abstraction, his use of bright, vibrant colors and varying techniques make his emotions apparent. Chagall reiterated repeatedly that his faith in love was the primary inspiration for his art.
Expressionism could also be found all over American Pop Art and visual art of the s. With so many emotions present in that era of U. Living in Germany, China, Israel, and Brooklyn before starting his adult life, Max quickly developed an obsession with art that followed him everywhere. From a young age, Max was fascinated with how color and sound interact, creating canvases meant to convey auditory subjects through color.
My friends walked on. I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature. It depicts a horseback rider in blue galloping through the fields. Egon Schiele painted his wife Edith Harms in , depicting her sitting on the floor, resting her cheek on her left knee. Her fiery red hair contrast strikingly with the green of her shirt.
Franz Marc was one of the founding members of Der Blaue Reiter. He gave an emotional and psychological meaning to the colours he used in his work, and blue was used to depict masculinity and spirituality.
Marc was fascinated by animals and their rich inner worlds, and he portrayed his animal subjects in a deeply emotional way. Several expressionist artists lost their lives during World War I, or as a result of the war due to traumas and illness.
Franz Marc fell in ; Egon Schiele died during the influenza epidemic, and many others took their own lives after breaking down under the traumas of the war. Finally, the era of German Expressionism was extinguished by the Nazi dictatorship in Yet Expressionism continued to inspire and live on in later artists and art movements.
For example, Abstract Expressionism developed as an important avant-garde movement in the post-war United States in the s and s. Clyfford Still — Robert Motherwell — Selected artworks in the collection Left Right.
Lee Krasner Gothic Landscape On display at Tate Modern part of In the Studio. Arshile Gorky Waterfall Franz Kline Meryon —1. Sam Francis Around the Blues , —3.
Robert Motherwell Iberia No. II Mark Rothko Black on Maroon On display at Tate Britain part of Turner Collection. Jackson Pollock Yellow Islands Hans Hofmann Pompeii See all artworks.
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