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