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    Edvard Munch

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    was painted with Oil‚ tempera‚ and pastel on cardboard. Munch’s mental state was on full display‚ and his style varied greatly depending on which emotion had taken hold of him while working on each particular painting. Edvard Munch used expressionism in most of his paintings. Another example of his most well known work is The Dead Mother he used oils on canvas. Its located in Kunsthalle‚ Bremen. It expresses his anxiety and sadness and the loss of his mother. Success was not enough to tame

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    German’s past with its future. Using traditional German forms of art such as folk art and craft and combining this with that of modern images‚ using loose brushstrokes to create an earthy and natural feel to his works. Nolde was a part of the German Expressionism movement which sought to unshackle their civilisation and return to nature and freedom. “Primitive peoples create their works with the material itself in the artist’s hand‚ held in his fingers.” (Nolde‚ 1934) This statement by Nolde explores

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    and to unveil the despair he held within. He uses the figure to represent himself in ways he was not able to display in reality. Taking on this style of art where the main subjects are symbols of personal emotion is what ignited the start of the expressionism

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    When Sidney Nolan painted the Ned Kelly series‚ he was interested in an ’authentic national vision’. The first series was made up of 27 paintings from 1946-1947. The paintings all-together form a storyboard‚ telling the legend of Ned Kelly. One of them in particular is ’Death of Constable Scanlon’. The series‚ including this one‚ were all painted with Ripolin enamel on hardboard. You can see the many brushstrokes but some objects are painted completely solid for example Ned Kelly himself and the

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    Orientalism: Edward W. Said‚ post-collonail studies / Odalisque: exotic‚ erotic subjects like the harem girl(turkish word); redining or recumbent‚female nude; recurrent figure throuhout Western Art/ Die Bruke-The Bridge: 1905-ernst cuding kirchner (dissolved in 1913); earlliest German group to seize the avant-garde spirit; means “bridge”-members believed their work would be a bridge to the future; artists lived and worked communally producing intense‚ anguished pictures with harshly distorted forms

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    Janet King Professor Miller ART 1030 17 August 2010 The Glorification and Horrors of War through the Arts Artistes have always painted scenes of war from the Ancient worlds of Egypt and Greece. The relief inside the Abu Simbel Temple showing Ramses in the Battle of Kadesh and of his victory over the Hittites is an excellent example. The Athena Frieze depicting the battle of Greeks against the Persians‚ which are some of the earliest example of a specific historical event being‚ sculptured (Greek

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    Starry Night Expressionism was considered a movement in fine art‚ which showed a persons inner experience and feelings‚ instead of a realistic portrayal of an object. Expressionists tried to depict their subjective emotions and their general responses to objects and events‚ instead of depicting an objective reality. The artist accomplished these themes in their paintings through distortion‚ overstatement‚ primitivism‚ and imagination. Their paintings often showed flamboyant‚ jarring‚ violent

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    made an immediate impact on the people he lived with‚ and that is the greatest sign in determining who was the most influential. People follow leaders‚ those who stick their necks out to head the charge. Modern art‚ while taking note of the expressionism of both artists‚ followed Picasso; this is evident in the novel forms of today’s artwork. Art is no longer simply eye candy‚ but rather a medium for an artist’s communication. Modern art has something to say‚ and if we are to follow the path it

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    Van Gogh vs Salvador Dali

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    Van Gogh vs Salvador Dali The focus of the paper is to make a comparison and contrasts between Van Gogh’s ’Starry Night’ and Salvador Dali’s ’Persistence of time’. While Van Gogh’s theme formed the basis of expressionism in twentieth century‚ Dali initially became a leader of the Surrealist movement and later on developed interests in psychology and science‚ both movements influencing their beliefs and formal approaches in distinctive ways. The ’Persistence of Time’ is regarded as one of the most

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    Standing Nude with Hut Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s painting “Standing Nude with Hut” (Nackte Frau mit Hut) represents a female figure standing alone without any clothes inside a room. Though she’s unclothed‚ she wears a black round hat‚ some pieces of jewelry and pointy red shoes. The black color used for the hat was also used for the pubic hair of the Woman‚ which emphasizes its rectangular shape. Geometrical forms painted in different tones of green‚ yellow and a vivid blue

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