Expressionism

Monsters???

Hieronymus BoschHieronymus, or Jerome, Bosch, b. c.1450, d. August 1516, spent his entire artistic career in the small Dutch town of Hertogenbosch, from which he derived his name.

The Extraction of the Stone of Madness (The Cure of Folly) c. 1475-80 (200 Kb); Oil on board, 48 x 35 cm (18 7/8 x 13 3/4"); Museo del Prado, Madrid Removing "stones" from the head was a fairly common medieval operation; however, for some reason Bosch has painted a flower as the object being removed

c.1485 (50 Kb); Prado, Madrid The Seven Deadly Sins is a painted rectangle with a central image of the eye of God, with Christ watching the world. The Seven Deadly Sins, depicted through scenes of worldly transgression, are arranged around the circular shape. The circular layout with god in the centre represents gods all seeing eye No sin goes unnoticed. In the corners of the image appear the "Four Last Things" mentioned in late medieval spiritual handbooks: Deathbed, the Last Judgment, Heaven, and Hell, all of which are favorite themes of separate Bosch panels.

Paradise Left wing (180 Kb); 147 x 66 cm

Haywain Central panel (210 Kb); 140 x 100 cm

Hell Right wing (180 Kb); 147 x 66 cm

Creation of the World Outer wings (shutters), depicting the third day of creation (140 Kb)

Garden of Earthly Delights (Ecclesia's paradise)

Central panel (280 Kb)

The Earthly Paradise (Garden of Eden)

Left wing (180 Kb)

Hell

Right wing (180 Kb)

Bird-Headed Monster

Detail from right wing (320 Kb)

Outer Wings Grisaille on panel (180 Kb), 131 x 53 cm Left: Arrest of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane Right: Christ Carrying the Cross

Left Wing Flight and Failure of St Anthony (190 Kb), 131.5 x 53 cm

Right Wing St Anthony in Meditation (190 Kb), 131.5 x 53 cm

Central panel Temptation of St Anthony (210 Kb), 131.5 x 119 cm (52 x 47 in)

Francisco de Goya

Saturn

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns

Saturn Devouring His Son, 1819. The title, like all those given to the Black Paintings, was assigned by others after Goya's death.

Old man

Of the series «Caprichos»

Aquelarre- late XIX century

Odilon RedonRedon, Odilon (1840-1916). French painter and graphic artist, one of the outstanding figures of Symbolism. In these he developed a highly distinctive repertoire of weird subjects (strange amoeboid creatures, insects, and plants with human heads and so on), influenced by the writings of Edgar Allen Poe. Redon too became associated with the movement of Expressionism.

Guardian Spirit of the Waters 1878 (210 Kb); Charcoal, 46.6 x 37.6 cm; The Art Institute of Chicago

Spirit of the Forest (Specter from a Giant Tree) 1880 (210 Kb); Charcoal and black chalk heightened wiith white chalk, 45.7 x 28.5 cm; The Woodner Family Collection, New York

The Crying Spider 1881 (230 Kb); Charcoal, 49.5 x 37.5 cm; Private collection, The Netherlands

Cactus Man 1881 (260 Kb); Charcoal, 49 x 32.5 cm; The Woodner Family Collection, New York

Mystery undated (160 Kb); Oil on canvas, 73 x 53.9 cm (28 3/4 x 21 1/4 in); The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

Parsifal

c. 1912 (160 Kb); Pastel on beige paper, 66 x 52 cm (26 x 20 1/2 in); Musee d'Orsay, Paris

The Cyclops c. 1914 (240 Kb); Oil on canvas, 64 x 51 cm; Museum Kroller-Mueller, Otterlo, The Netherlands

Francis Bacon

Bacon, Francis 1909-92, English painter; b. Ireland. Self-taught, he expressed the satirical, horrifying, and hallucinatory in such works as Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944; Tate Gall., London).

Oil and sand on canvas; Three panels, each 198.1 x 144.8 cm (78 x 57 in); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Oil on canvas; Three panels, each 198.1 x 147.3 cm (78 x 58 in); Collection of the artist (?)

Second Version of Triptych 1944

Head VI 1949 (290 Kb); Oil on canvas, 93.2 x 76.5 cm (36 5/8 x 30 1/8 in); Arts Council of Great Britain, London

Study for Crouching Nude 1952 (230 Kb); Oil and sand on canvas, 198.1 x 137.2 cm (78 x 54 in); The Detroit Institute of Arts

Study After Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X 1953 (200 Kb); Oil on canvas, 153 x 118.1 cm (60 1/4 x 46 1/2 in); Des Moines Art Center, Iowa

Man with Dog 1953 (150 Kb); Oil on canvas, 152.1 x 116.8 cm (59 7/8 x 46 in); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

Self-Portrait 1971 (200 Kb); Oil on canvas, 35.5 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in); Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Edvard Munch

MunchAngst1896LitografíasNY, MoMA

12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944)[1] was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionistic art.

The scream 1893

The Dance of Life (1899-1900), Oil on Canvas, Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, Norway

DaliThe persistance of the memory1931

Salvador DalìSalvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), commonly known as Salvador Dal

Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters.[1][2] His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media

The Sweet One 1925-30

Hannah HöchHannah Höch (November 1, 1889 – May 31, 1978) was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage.