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Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Readers might be familiar with some of the works of Vincent Van Gogh. What they might not know is that he was an expressionist. The expressionists used color and painting techniques to suggest mood and emotion. An introduction to expressionism and celebrated expressionists, this book presents readers with the life and famous works of Edvard Munch, Van Gogh, Marc Chagall, and more through understandable, age-appropriate content. Each colorful spread...
Author
Publisher
Taschen
Language
English
Description
In this comprehensive collection, director of the Gerhard Richter Archive Dietmar Elger gathers the many artists and elements of this urgent, scattered, complex movement into one authoritative overview of its protagonists, principles, and essential role in 20th-century modernism. Finding a critical calm amid the frenzy of color and distortion, the book distills Expressionism's leading collectives, Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, as well as its regional...
Author
Series
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
With leading groups Die Brücke (The Bridge) and Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), and key players such as Wassily Kandinsky, Egon Schiele, and Emil Nolde, the Expressionists disowned Impressionism, which they regarded as "man lowered to the position of a gramophone record of the outer world", to depict instead a raw and visceral experience of life as it was felt, rather than seen on the surface. Their paintings brim with emotive force, conveyed...
10) Expressionists
Author
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Discusses the characteristics of the Expressionism movement which flourished in Germany from 1905 to 1920 and presents biographies of fourteen Expressionist artists.
Author
Series
Publisher
Watson-Guptil
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The Art Explorers series offers a new approach to art, encouraging kids to interpret what they see in famous artworks, then try the techniques themselves. Express Yourself!: Activities and Adventures in Expressionism, the third book in the series, draws children into the compelling, dramatic world of expressionism by highlighting the work of six famous artists. From modern expressionists (Van Gogh, Munch) to German expressionists (Kirchner, Kandinsky)...
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