Color Woodcut

Color Woodcut

A Brief Introduction to Expressionism

Expressionist art is marked by the expression of reality by means of distortion to communicate one's inner vision.

 

The artists of this school used bright colors to bring out their pessimistic views on life. They showed a world of subconsciousness, a world of distress and torment, and a world which is totally their own imagination.

 

1. Emil Nolde(1867-1956)

He was the most gifted and powerful exponent of Expressionism in Germany. His most powerful work was his exploration of the supernatural, demonic heads, mystic appearances and religious images.

 

Major works:

 

The Prophet, a woodcut portraying a terrible, savage image of pain.

Christ Among the Children

Ripe Sunflowers

 

 

1. George Grosz(1893-1959)

A German expressionist, was famous for satirical drawings attacking the corruption of German bourgeois society.

 

Major Works:

 

Punishment, a recollection of destruction of wars with blazing explosions, thunder clouds of smoke, and debris of buildings in a furious image of man-made hell where no figure of man survives.

 

1. Max Beckmann(1884-1950)

He was the most powerful of the German expressionists. World War I left him with a deep sense of despair for the future of the world and this despair is the theme of many of his pictures.

 

Major Works:

 

The Dream, a mocking nightmare, a titled, zigzag world crammed with puppet-like figures. Beckmann saw the present-day world as a nightmare. For him, the grotesque and sinister images from his dreams represented the true nature of modern man.

 

1. Paul Klee(1897-1940)

A Swiss painter, he used lines, colors and forms to evoke sensations of weight, tension, movement, etc. He painted abstract works, discovering in forms and lines the suggestion of a face, figure or object, which he imbued with humorous significance, often whimsical, at times, satirical.

 

Major Works:

 

Twittering Birds, Klee used simple lines to suggest the sound of words when a crank is turned. The twittering, the laughter in the picture may be taken as directed against our sentimental attachment to bird notes in song and story as well as against our faith in mechanical innovations.

 

1. Wassily Kandinsky

 

A Russian painter naturalized German (1928), then French. He used full-length colors and bold brushwork to create shapes and patterns that resembled nothing in nature, charging color and form with a purely spiritual meaning. Non-representational art is the term usually given to his style.

 

Major Works:

 

Sketch I for Composition VII, a mass of shapes and colors to produce an effect of excitement an freshness.

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can you tell me what this style of drawing/illustration is called? its where pictures are composed only of....?

the colours black and white.

it has a very fluid look, totally unlike woodcuts, but has the same monochrome look.

i associate it with illustrations of fairy tales & arthurian/ medieval myths and legends. there are no lines as such, that delineate the edges of things....its rather that [ie the] white of a face stands out against the blackness of the background, creating a "discovered" edge.
please post links/examples of what you think i'm describing.
the kind of thing im talking about 80% black colour, with only small sections and edges in white.
the effect is dense and gothic and has a pre-raphaelite grace to it.

possibly a stenciled outline, or silhouette of, a linograph print, or photoshop threshold & duotone, a negative film,

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Ruth Hogan, Color Woodcut Demonstration