3/22/2012
ART HISTORY 4450 German Expressionism: Die Brücke (The Bridge)
Die Brücke (1905-13) • • •
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association of artists linking past to future worked together in rented storefront studios program: “protest” art – drawn together by what they were against, rather than in favor of – call on all youth to fight for greater artistic freedom against older, wellestablished powers style: expressive possibilities of color, form & compositional distortions – rapid development of personal styles – inspired by van Gogh’s clear expression of “inner-necessity” vs. Impressionism interest in material world & finesse – Fauvist strong colors (influenced by Matisse exhibit in Berlin in 1908) media/techniques: – life drawing in studios – “plein air” (e.g., Moritzburg lakes near Dresden, at the island of Fehmarn) – woodcuts, lithographs, and drawings
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