EXPRESSIONISM

Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century.

Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas

Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality.

MEAN OF TERM

AN EXPRESSIONIST WISHES, ABOVE ALL, TO EXPRESS HIMSELF IMMEDIATE

PERCEPTION AND BUILDS ON MORE COMPLEX STRUCTURES.

IMPRESSIONS AND MENTAL IMAGES THAT PASS THROUGH MENTAL PEOPLES

EXPRESSIONISM - PAUL KLEE

MARC CHAGALL

PAUL KLEE

Paul Klee was a painter born in Switzerland, and is considered to be a German-Swiss. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism.

• BORN: December 18, 1879

• DIED : June 29, 1940

STYLE AND METHODS Klee has been variously associated

with Expressionism, Futurism, Surrealism, and Abstraction, but his pictures are difficult to classify.

He generally worked in isolation from his peers, and interpreted new art trends in his own way.

He was inventive in his methods and technique. Klee worked in many different media—oil paint, watercolor, ink, pastel, etching, and others

SOME OF KLEE'S EARLY PRESERVED CHILDREN'S DRAWINGS

Ghost

Chamber with

the Tall Door,

1925

• He demonstrates that

perspective can be

playful in this watercolor

of an orange room

cluttered with black wire

utensils and with a tall

violet door from which

seemingly radiate the

black perspectival lines.

Comedians' Handbill, 1938

• Klee designed this handbill on a sheet of

• Correcting here and there the figures' contours, he filled the spaces between them

• Touches of white and pink gouache add animation.

• Here in these thick-stemmed, black pictographs, Klee makes his abbreviated black figures from the previous year even thicker.

• Leaping into our vision as boldly as an advertisement, these signs symbolize syncopated movement, frolicking creatures, and stick figures.

Adam and Little Eve,

1921

• Klee expanded the story of the creation of man.

• His Eve, after growing from Adam's rib, stays right there. She also remains a child.

• ("Little Eve") looks like a schoolgirl with flaxen hair tied in a braid.

• Adam is a broad-faced, grown man who sports earrings and a mustache.

• By placing the figures against a shallow ground with a reddish curtain, Klee seems to set the oddly matched pair on a puppet-theater stage.

LAST WORKS IN SWITZERLANDIN THIS PERIOD KLEE MAINLY WORKED ON LARGE-SIZED PICTURES. AFTER THE ONSET OF ILLNESS, THERE WERE ABOUT 25 WORKS IN THE 1936 CATALOGUE, BUT HIS PRODUCTIVITY INCREASED IN 1937 TO 264 PICTURES, 1938 TO 489, AND 1939 – HIS MOST PRODUCTIVE YEAR – TO 1254

MARC CHAGALL

• Marc Chagall was a Russian-French artist. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century".

• Born: July 6, 1887, Vitebsk, Belarus

• Died: March 28, 1985, Saint Paul de Vence, France

STYLE AND METHODS• Chagall's work during all stages of his life, it was his

colors which attracted and captured the viewer's attention. During his earlier years his range was limited by his emphasis on form and his pictures never gave the impression of painted drawing

Stained glass windows

• One of Chagall's major contributions to art has been his work with stained glass.

• This medium allowed him further to express his desire to create intense and fresh colors and had the added benefit of natural light and refraction interacting and constantly changing:

• everything from the position where the viewer stood to the weather outside would alter the visual effect

EARLY

PAINTING OF

HIS PARENTS

• This painting was

created by chagall of

his parents in his early

days

• he used to capture

viewers action in his

paintings

EXPRESSIONISM

MADE BY - ABHINAV GUPTA

ABHAY MALIK

ANSHUL WALIA

B.ARCH II SEM

SBBIA