Boy in Short Pants: Amedeo Modigliani
Boy in Short Pants is a 1918 painting by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani who was well known for his portraits in the early 20th century. This work is located in the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas.
Expressionism
Bride and Groom: Amedeo Modigliani
Bride and Groom is a 1915 painting by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani who was well known for his portraits in the early 20th century. This work is located in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, United States.
Portrait of Mademoiselle Marthe: Amedeo Modigliani
Portrait of Mademoiselle Marthe is a 1916 painting by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani who was well known for his portraits in the early 20th century. This work is located in the Matsuoka Museum of Art in Tokyo, Japan.
The Little Monkey: Franz Marc
Franz Marc was heavily influenced by Cubism and his shapes in The Little Monkey from 1912 adopt its fractured forms. The monkey is almost perfectly camouflaged in the foliage yet it looks backward as if disturbed. It, however, is oblivious to us and perhaps the prominent violent red is more attributable to us than to …
Fox: Franz Marc
Franz Marc infused his work with spiritual significance using colours he associated with specific attributes as can be seen in Fox from 1911. Here, a blue and black fox rests in a highly colourful landscape. The green of vegetation and trees are discernible but his colours show more of an artistic vision than the world. …
The Tiger: Franz Marc
Painted in 1912 in the Cubist expressionist style by Franz Marc, The Tiger, with its jagged shards of color help accentuate the stripes while also seamlessly incorporating the cat into its colorful environment. The head is, as Marc’s monkey of the same year, turned back – this time as if about to see us. This …
Houses in Munich: Wassily Kandinsky
In a similar vein of spiritual feeling, Wassily Kandinsky paints an urban setting, Houses in Munich in 1908. The objects of the world and people are still recognizable but less attention is paid to their physical appearance than some sort of essence that dwells within. The coloring strains against naturalism but does not break completely …
The Green Domino: Albert Bloch
The Green Domino, painted in 1913 demonstrates American Modernist painter Albert Bloch’s preoccupation with both colour and form. Five human figures are discernible in the shallow space of brightly coloured and fractured shapes, centring on the pale woman who stands in the green dress and looks out at the viewer. Bloch painted this work in …
Woman in Red Dress: Edvard Munch
The sitter in Woman in Red Dress who Expressionist painter Edvard Munch paints here has the bare rudiments of facial characteristics as she treads an unoccupied road towards us. The colors of pinks and browns, along with the woman’s clasped hands send a message of anxiety, perhaps mourning, although we can’t be sure given the …
Death of Marat: Edvard Munch
Death of Marat is a 1907 loose tribute or reworking of the same subject by eighteenth-century Neoclassicist Jacques-Louis David and bears a similar arrangement of space. Norwegian Edvard Munch, however, includes the murderess in the picture looking out at the viewer. The scene has been seen as a personal statement of loss and hurt at …
Jealousy: Edvard Munch
Jealousy is one of eleven versions of the theme that Norwegian artist Edvard Munch painted. In this 1907 version, there are three figures – two suitors and the desired woman. In typical Expressionist style, Munch uses non-naturalistic colors in the faces to signal differing emotional states with the face of the man looking out at …
Despair: Edvard Munch
1892’s Despair by Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944) shows an obscured figure turning away from both the social world of the picture space, as shown by the two men walking away in the background, and turning from the spectator. The overall scene of wavy colors seems to be a contribution to the sense of …
Edvard Munch: Self-Portrait in Hell
In Edvard Munch’s 1903 Self-Portrait in Hell, we see the naked artist shown with clarity in the center of the canvas. All else around him is murky, and dark, and creates a feeling of fearful uncertainty. Both the expression of suffering on the artist’s face and the yellowish coloration of the body shows an inflamed …