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A) DIE BRÜCKE
-Expressionism is
associated with Northern
Europe in general and
Germany in particular
psyche.
- Can be recognized physical
and spiritual suffering depicted
in Grünewald's ‘Crucifixion’
above, in the tortured vision of
Martin Schongauer’s engraving
of the 'Temptation of Saint
Anthony' beside.
- Associated with Northern Europe in general and
Germany in particular.
Edvard Munch
The Scream
-For this picture, the
name suggest from the
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great German artistic
past of Dürer and H
Grunewald over the
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bourgeoisie to a new
and better future.
Francis Bacon
Max Beckmann Study after Velazquez's Portrait
The Departure of Pope Innocent X
(March 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890)
Vincent was born in Zundert, The
Netherlands; his father was a
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protestant minister, a profession that
Vincent found appealing and to which
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he would be drawn to a certain extent
later in his
At age life.
16 Vincent started to work for
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the art dealer Goupil & Co.
- His four years younger brother
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Theo, with whom Vincent cherished a
life long friendship, would join the
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-company latera lot of insight into the
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life of the painter, and show him to be
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talented
1880, writer with
Vincent a keen
van Goghmind.
followed the suggestion of
his brother Theo and took up painting in earnest. For a
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brief period Vincent took painting lessons from Anton
Mauve at The Hague. Although Vicent and Anton soon
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split over divergence of artistic views, influences of the
Hague School of painting would remain in Vincents work,
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notably in the way he played with light and in the
looseness of his brush strokes. However his usage of
colours, favouring dark tones, set him apart from his
Arles with Irises In the winter of 1885-1886 Van Gogh
attended the art academy of Antwerp,
Belgium. This proved a disappointment as
he was dismissed after a few months by his
Professor. Van Gogh did however get in Irises
touch with Japanese art during this period,
which he started to collect eagerly. He
admired its bright colors, use of canvas
Irises (pink/gree)
space and the role lines played in the
picture. These impressions would influence
him strongly. Van Gogh made some painting
Irises
in Japanese style. Also some of the portraits
he painted are set against a background
which shows Japanese art.
Paintings
In 1888, when city life and living with his brothers Van Gogh's
proved too much, Van Gogh left Paris and went to Arles, Room
Bouches-du-Rh, France. He was impressed with the local at Arles
landscape and hoped to found an art colony. He
decorated a "yellow house" and created a celebrated
series of yellow sunflower paintings for this purpose.
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and forms (known as synthetism) attracted van Gogh, Potato
followed his invitation. The admiration was mutual, and Eaters
Gauguin painted van Gogh painting sunflowers.
However their encounter ended in a quarrel. Van Gogh
suffered
The onlya painting
mental breakdown and his
he sold during cut lifetime,
off part of
Thehis left
ear
Red Vineyard, was created in 1888. It is now on
display in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, Russia.
Starry Night
over
the Rhone
ERICH MENDELSON
- Erich Mendelsohn ( 21
March 1887 – 15 September
1953 ) was a German Jewish
architect.
Known for his expressionist
architecture in the 1920s
- Born in Allenstein
( Olstztyn ), East Prussia.
Fifth of sixth children.
Until his death in 1953, he
undertook various projects,
mostly.
EINSTEIN TOWER… Is an astrophysical observatory in
the Albert Einstein Science
Park in Potsdam, Germany. (1920-
1921
astronomer Erwin Finlay-Freundlich
to support experiments
and observations to validate Albert
Einstein’s relativity theory.
He try to express his fantasy of a
form for the future.
working solar observatory today as
part of the Astrophysical Institute
Potsdam.
Light from the telescope is brought
down through the shaft to the
basement where the instruments and
Exterior – concrete, but due to
laboratory are located.
construction difficulties, much of the
building was actually realized in brick,
covered with stucco.
One of the few landmarks of
expressionist architecture.
THE AMSTERDAM SCHOOL…