post impressionism, van gogh, expressionism and surrealism
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Post ImpressionismVan Gogh
Expressionism
Self-Portrait 1887-88
Van GoghVan Gogh
The Potato Eaters 1885 Oil on canvas
The Church at Auvers-sur-Oise 1890 Oil on canvas (94 x 74 cm)
Musee d'Orsay, Paris
The Night Café. 1888. Oil on canvas 70 x 89 cm
Cafe Terrace at Night1888
Oil on canvas80 x 65cm
Trees in the Asylum Garden 1889 Oil on canvas (73 x 60 cm) Private collection, U.S.A.
Starry Night. 1889. Oil on canvas. 73 x 92cm
Expressionism
Germany
Expressionism(Often referred to as German Expressionism)
• Die Brücke (The Bridge)
– Founded in 1905 in Dresden to 1913
– Dominated by paintings of one of its founders Ernst Kirchner (1880-1938)
– Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl were founding members
– Emil Nolde (Emil Hansen) was a member for a brief period of time.
– By the end of Die Brücke in 1913 there were 75 ‘associate members’ from the Netherlands to Czechoslovakia
NOTE – Fauvism 1904-07
• Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)
– Founded in 1911 in Munich to 1914*– Founded as an exhibition society that
provided a forum for:• Franz Marc (1880-1916)• Gabriele Munter (1877-1962)• Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)• Alexej Jawlensky (1864-1941)
(first two German, last two Russian)*Start of WWI
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner‘Nude Woman Combing her Hair’, 1913
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner‘The Artist and his Model’, 1907
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ‘Marcella’,1909
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner‘Bathers at Moritzburg’,1909 (reworked 1926)
Erich Heckel‘Red Houses’, 1908
Erich Heckel‘Windmill near Dangast’, 1909
Emil Nolde‘The Prophet’, 1912
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)
Founded in 1911Ended in 1914
Wassily Kandinsky‘Old Town II’, 1902
Wassily Kandinsky‘Autumn in Bavaria’, 1908
Wassily Kandinsky‘Church in Murnau’, 1910
Wassily Kandinsky‘Composition IV’, 1911
Wassily Kandinsky‘Composition VII’, 1913
Franz Marc‘Horse in a Landscape’, 1910
Franz Marc‘Yellow Cow’, 1911
Franz Marc‘Fighting Forms’, 1914
Surrealism
Origins Initially a literary movementManifesto by Breton ( poet ) founded in 1924Grew directly out of Dada
Breton, Ernst, Arp, Magritte, Dali
Influenced by work of Sigmund Freud in Psychoanalysis,the subconscious and dream interpretation
Influenced by De Chirico - metaphysical painter
Giorgio De Chirico
The Great Metaphysician
1917
Giorgio de Chirico The Soothsayer’s Recompense 1913
Miro
The Birth of theWorld
Joan Miro - The Harelquin’s Carnival 1924 - 25
Max Ernst Gray Forest 1927
Ernst – Europe after the Rain 1940-42
The Great Masturbator 1929
Salvador Dali - The Persistence of Memory 1931
Dali
Soft Constructionwith Boiled beans:Premonition of Civil War.
1936
Magritte The Treachery( or Perfidy) of Images 1928 - 29
Magritte
Castle of the Pyrenees
Magritte
The Empire of Lights
1954