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Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century.
Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas
Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality.
MEAN OF TERM
AN EXPRESSIONIST WISHES, ABOVE ALL, TO EXPRESS HIMSELF IMMEDIATE
PERCEPTION AND BUILDS ON MORE COMPLEX STRUCTURES.
IMPRESSIONS AND MENTAL IMAGES THAT PASS THROUGH MENTAL PEOPLES
PAUL KLEE
Paul Klee was a painter born in Switzerland, and is considered to be a German-Swiss. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism.
• BORN: December 18, 1879
• DIED : June 29, 1940
STYLE AND METHODS Klee has been variously associated
with Expressionism, Futurism, Surrealism, and Abstraction, but his pictures are difficult to classify.
He generally worked in isolation from his peers, and interpreted new art trends in his own way.
He was inventive in his methods and technique. Klee worked in many different media—oil paint, watercolor, ink, pastel, etching, and others
Ghost
Chamber with
the Tall Door,
1925
• He demonstrates that
perspective can be
playful in this watercolor
of an orange room
cluttered with black wire
utensils and with a tall
violet door from which
seemingly radiate the
black perspectival lines.
Comedians' Handbill, 1938
• Klee designed this handbill on a sheet of
• Correcting here and there the figures' contours, he filled the spaces between them
• Touches of white and pink gouache add animation.
• Here in these thick-stemmed, black pictographs, Klee makes his abbreviated black figures from the previous year even thicker.
• Leaping into our vision as boldly as an advertisement, these signs symbolize syncopated movement, frolicking creatures, and stick figures.
Adam and Little Eve,
1921
• Klee expanded the story of the creation of man.
• His Eve, after growing from Adam's rib, stays right there. She also remains a child.
• ("Little Eve") looks like a schoolgirl with flaxen hair tied in a braid.
• Adam is a broad-faced, grown man who sports earrings and a mustache.
• By placing the figures against a shallow ground with a reddish curtain, Klee seems to set the oddly matched pair on a puppet-theater stage.
LAST WORKS IN SWITZERLANDIN THIS PERIOD KLEE MAINLY WORKED ON LARGE-SIZED PICTURES. AFTER THE ONSET OF ILLNESS, THERE WERE ABOUT 25 WORKS IN THE 1936 CATALOGUE, BUT HIS PRODUCTIVITY INCREASED IN 1937 TO 264 PICTURES, 1938 TO 489, AND 1939 – HIS MOST PRODUCTIVE YEAR – TO 1254
MARC CHAGALL
• Marc Chagall was a Russian-French artist. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century".
• Born: July 6, 1887, Vitebsk, Belarus
• Died: March 28, 1985, Saint Paul de Vence, France
STYLE AND METHODS• Chagall's work during all stages of his life, it was his
colors which attracted and captured the viewer's attention. During his earlier years his range was limited by his emphasis on form and his pictures never gave the impression of painted drawing
Stained glass windows
• One of Chagall's major contributions to art has been his work with stained glass.
• This medium allowed him further to express his desire to create intense and fresh colors and had the added benefit of natural light and refraction interacting and constantly changing:
• everything from the position where the viewer stood to the weather outside would alter the visual effect
EARLY
PAINTING OF
HIS PARENTS
• This painting was
created by chagall of
his parents in his early
days
• he used to capture
viewers action in his
paintings