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Carnival on Board
An emotionally charged painting in the style of Seurat of large carnival tents being raised with a cathedral in the background. The elongated blue shadows on the white ground with huddled groups of people and one figure lying extended on the ground in the foreground of this painting makes a complex composition. The painting is signed illegibly and dated in the lower right-hand corner. -
Portrait of Maude Abrantes by Modigliani
Modigliani is famous for his portrait work, particularly of nudes in a modern style. His work has unique characteristics which includes particular elongation of the subjects that he paints. He painted the Portrait on the same canvas as he had painted Nude with a Hat earlier that year. He had limited means so he turned the canvas over to use the other side. “Portrait of Maude Abrantes.” Nude Sitting on a Divan by Amedeo Modigliani, www.amedeomodigliani.net/portrait-of-maude-abrantes/. -
Marcella by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig. “Marcella, 1909 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.” Www.wikiart.org, 1 Jan. 1970, www.wikiart.org/en/ernst-ludwig-kirchner/marcella. -
Large Blue Horses by Franz Marc
Marc completed his suite of monumental, primary-color compositions in 1911 with The Large Blue Horses, Blue Horses in symbolically bound to certain of the originating conceptions of the contemporaneous Blue rider group: in the symbol of the horse as a vehicle of breakthrough, in the emphasis on the spirituality of blue, and in the idea of spirituality battling materialism.
“The Large Blue Horse by Franz Marc.” Fighting Forms by Franz Marc, www.franzmarc.org/The-Large-Blue-Horse.jsp. -
Mask Still Life III by Emil Nolde
Oil on canvas - The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Mask Still Life III depicts 5 masks with various grotesque expressions. Masks, with their ability to convey a range of emotions, held a unique place in Europe. Nolde's piece takes these motifs and pushes them farther - there is no human figure in his masks to ground the piece in the familiar or with whom viewers can identify.
“Emil Nolde Most Important Art | TheArtStory.” The Art Story, www.theartstory.org/artist-nolde-emil-artworks.htm. -
The Yellow Cow by Frank Marc
Yellow Cow is the first and perhaps the only case in Marc's career of a joyous animal. It is totally abandoned to play. Marc avoids the typically human, sentimental view of animals. Rather, the cow has surrendered to its nature, as it were. Yellow Cow is an early example of his use of color symbolism, a technique that had been pioneered by Vincent van Gogh.
“Yellow Cow by Franz Marc.” Fighting Forms by Franz Marc, www.franzmarc.org/Yellow-Cow.jsp. -
Five Women on the Street by Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. In 1933, his work was branded as "degenerate" by the Nazis and in 1937, over 600 of his works were sold or destroyed.
“Five Women on the Street by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.” My Favorite Arts, theartstack.com/artist/ernst-ludwig-kirchner/five-women-street. -
Fighting Forms by Franz Marc
Fighting Forms shows the influence of color symbolism, a technique that had been pioneered by Vincent Van Gogh. Franz Marc uses colors to humanize natural forms in the landscape, emphasizing his own interest in pantheism. This was Marc's last painting, which clearly indicated that he had abandoned figural painting.
Fighting Forms by Franz Marc, www.franzmarc.org/Fighting-Forms.jsp. -
Rehe im Walde (Deer in Woods) by Franz Marc
Amidst and integrated with the form of the deer is a panoply of force lines and transparent planes; an underlying organization of these exists in the pattern of parallel diagonals moving downward from the right and left edge, meeting in the middle.
“Deer in the Forest, 1914 by Franz Marc.” Fighting Forms by Franz Marc, www.franzmarc.org/Deer-in-the-Forest.jsp. -
Self-Portrait as a Soldier by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
This is a masterpiece of psychological drama. The painting shows him dressed in a uniform but instead of standing on a battlefield, he is standing in his studio with an amputated, bloody arm and a nude model behind him.
“Kirchner, Self-Portrait As a Soldier.” Khan Academy, Khan Academy, www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/modernity-ap/a/kirchner-self-portrait-as-a-soldier. -
Portrait of Beatrice Hastings by Amedeo Modigliani
Among the portraits Modigliani painted in his short lifetime, the least puppet-like were perhaps those of Beatrice Hastings, his partner from 1914 to 1916. In the two years of their stormy, brawl-filled romance, he painted her 14 times.
Tate. “Modigliani and 'La Poétesse Anglaise': by Chloe Aridjis – Tate Etc.” Tate, Tate, www.tate.org.uk/tate-etc/issue-41-autumn-2017/modigliani-beatrice-hastings-la-poetesse-anglaise. -
Moscow I by Wassily Kandinsky
An original urban landscape that is far from the task of reproducing the look of the square. Kandinsky creates an image of the center of Moscow, one of his favorite cities. Partly using a futuristic method of conveying the movement of shapes, he is a kind of turning in the middle of the square and showing its major monuments.
Kandinsky, Wassily. “Moscow I, 1916 - Wassily Kandinsky.” Www.wikiart.org, 1 Jan. 1970, www.wikiart.org/en/wassily-kandinsky/moscow-i-1916. -
Sitting Woman with Legs Drawn Up by Egon Schiele
Schiele, one of the central figures of Austrian Expressionism, is known for his jarring & oftentimes grotesque renderings of overt sexuality. This is his wife Edith, partially dressed, her body contorted in an unnatural position. Her bold, intense expression confronts the viewer & directly contradicts the artistic standards of passive feminine beauty.
“Expressionism Most Important Art and Artists | TheArtStory.” The Art Story, www.theartstory.org/movement-expressionism-artworks.htm. -
Reclining Nude by Amedeo Modigliani
Influenced by the artists in his circle of friends and associates, by a range of genres and art movements, and by primitive art, Modigliani's oeuvre was nonetheless unique and idiosyncratic Modigliani, Amedeo. “Reclining Nude, 1917 - Amedeo Modigliani.” Www.wikiart.org, 1 Jan. 1970, www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/reclining-nude-1917-1. -
Winter Moonlit Night by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
A view from Kirchner’s house in the Swiss Alps. The blue glow of the mountains at dusk against the deepening red sky & trees creates a harmonious play of color & form. Kirchner turned to nature as a place for redemption after suffering from a mental & physical breakdown during World War I.
“MoMA Learning.” Willem De Kooning. Woman I. 1950–52 | MoMA, www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/ernst-ludwig-kirchner-winter-moonlit-night-wintermondnacht-1919-in-fall-1918. -
Mad Woman by Chaim Soutine
Soutine painted two known versions of Mad Woman (using a different woman for each), and this was unquestionably the darkest of the pair. His violent brushstrokes and contorted lines communicate an almost unnerving tension, but nevertheless, do not deny his subject a rich depth of character.
“Expressionism Most Important Art and Artists | TheArtStory.” The Art Story, www.theartstory.org/movement-expressionism-artworks.htm. -
Angelus Novus by Paul Klee
The supernatural beings that inhabit Klee's work—during the last years of his life he created some fifty celestial angels—must be understood in that metaphysical context. This drawing intrigued the German Jewish philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), who purchased it in 1921.
“Accessibility.” Shrine of the Book | מוזיאון ישראל, ירושלים, www.imj.org.il/en/collections/199799. -
Sokea Soittoniekka (Blind musician) by Alvar Cawen
Victoria. “The Lonely Artist.” Expressionism, 1 Jan. 1970, lonelyartiststudio.blogspot.com/2011/01/expressionism.html. -
The War (Der Krieg) by Otto Dix
Otto Dix served as a machine gunner on the front lines of World War I. He enthusiastically embraced war as an inevitable part of life and a catalyst for change. Years after his service, he remembered the horrors of war in a series of 50 etchings and lithographs.
“MoMA Learning.” Willem De Kooning. Woman I. 1950–52 | MoMA, www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/expressionism/expressionist-depictions-of-war. -
Fish Magic by Paul Klee
Fish Magic is actually a collage, with a central square of muslin glued on top of the surface of the larger rectangular canvas. A long diagonal line reaching to the top of the clock tower from the side seems poised to whisk off this subtle curtain. For Klee, art was always theater, and, like all his paintings, this one offers a promise of more acts to follow.
Klee, Paul. “Fish Magic, 1925 - Paul Klee.” Www.wikiart.org, 1 Jan. 1970, www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/fish-magic-1925. -
Dancing Sailers by Erich Heckel
In his loathing for the bourgeoisie and modernization, he strove for the true, the primitive, the natural, the liberated and the authentic. This striving for the primal included introspection, blending with nature and natural or bohemian images of the erotic.
Yahav, Galia, et al. “The German Expressionists in All Their Edgy Roughness, Now in Tel Aviv.” Haaretz.com, Haaretz Com, 11 Jan. 2018, www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/1.5220882.
