THE SPIRITUALISM OF DER BLAUE REITER PAINTING General Characteristics From 1911 it could be said that European avant-garde art was divided between two needs: the need for individual subjective expressiveness and a striving for order in a time of pending chaos. ...
Pop Art and Popular Culture Pop Art was essentially an American phenomenon that included European responses to the imagery of the post-war consumer culture pioneered in New York ad agencies. Like Neo-Dada, Pop Art exposed the limits of Modernism and the prevailing...
THE EXPRESSIONISM OF DER BLAUE REITER Brief History Located in a small village just outside of Munich, Munchen, the southern German Expressionist group, Der Blaue Reiter, was broader in scope and more sophisticated than Die Brücke. Der Blaue Reiter was a more...
THE AGNST OF DIE BRUCKE Context of Expressionism According to Seth Taylor in his book, Left-Wing Nietzscheans: The Politics of German Expressionism, 1910-1920, the term “expressionism” originated in France “in order to differentiate Matisse…from the Impressionists,”...
Neo-Dada and anti-Moderism It is one of the ironies of art history that at the very moment Abstract Expressionism began to gain traction in the art world, that a major challenger would emerge to steal the spotlight. Neo-Dada, somewhat indebted to Marcel Duchamp, was a...
