FUTURISM AND THE MACHINE Futurism was an Italian art movement, mostly centered in the larger Italian cities, principally in the northern city of Milan, the most industrialized city in Italy at that time. “Announced” as a phenomenon and as a state of mind...
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. ...
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,”...
German Expressionism Before the Great War Compared to French Expressionism, German Expressionism was more involved with the relationships between art and society, politics and popular culture. While the Fauves were able to work somewhat independently from the state,...
ORPHISM: ART AS MUSIC Art and Time The last great body of art that reflected the pomp and circumstance of measureless and atemporal time was the nostalgic view of Paris created by the photographer of Old Paris, Eugène Atget. Paris lies before his camera, silently...
