CHAPTER 9: Expressionism

 

Well well , finally that gift from my brother in law from last Christmas, will find some useful meaning in my research.

(quoted from p. 15)

"The Brucke Group of Artists

 On 7 June 1905, four students of architecture at Dresden formed a group of artists called Die Brucke ( The Bridge). They were Fritz Bleyl, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel and  Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.

They were young artists aged between 21 and 25 who expressed conflict of artists from that generation.

In 1906, Kirchner had made a wood cut of the text - the stylized motif of a bridge: "We believe in development and in a generation of young people who are both creative and appreciative; we call together all young people, and- as young people who bear the future- we want to acquire freedom for our hands and lives, against the well-established older forces. Everyone belongs to us who renders in an immediate and unfalsified  way everything that compels him to be creative."

What was so special and characteristic for that movement?

• deformation
• very bright colours
• spontaneity so close to primitive art

art was the only way to express emotion

 Fritz Bleyl 1880-1966 

 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880-1938

 

 Sitting Woman, 1907                                               Marzella (1909–10)

Erich Heckel 1883-1970

 Erich Heckel painting at the easel

Red Huses 1908

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff 1883-1976

Duble Portrait S. and L. 1925

Dyke Breach 1910

The most famous names are Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch.

Edvard Munch 1863-1944

The scream 1893

The dance of life 1899-1900

Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890

Starry night



self-portrait 1889

In polish art the biggest and the most important artist was Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz ( Witkacy). I was very lucky to have opportunity to see his paintings many times in my home town of Lodz in Poland. His work is display in Muzeum Sztuki which is the museum of modern polish art.
You may go on this address :

 http://msl.org.pl/en/sztuka/index/id,1787 

http://msl.org.pl/en/index

http://www.krakowpost.com/article/1181

Witkacy 1885-1939

Rabanie lasu.Walka 1921 -1922



Krytyka zza grobu

Stworzenie swiata

CHAPTER 7 : Project 2

Project 2 : Developing a Shorthand

Stage 1 : Drawing Shapes
Stage 2 : Colour Notes and Numbered Tones
Stage 3 : Assessing Your Information

Unfortunately I haven't taken any scans of any of those stages so I have to start from Stage 4 which is a painting.

Stage 4 : Painting

This time I started from a very dark brown base then stage by stage I was adding some more bright colours.

Stage 5 : What have you Achieved?

This project  was different from the rest that I have done so far. Definitely I used my skills to describe the tones of the objects and making quick decisions about them. As you may see I started from the darkest parts and then adding some lighter and finishing with just light tones. The composition is open from the right side. I decided to stand on my bed to look from above to make the composition more interesting where the ironing board looks bit smaller and points on the right directions, but not on very straight line.

Colours are limited with a large amount of white paint.

I used acrylics for this task

 If I use this way of recording information about objects for future paintings, that will give me only simple clues and will live a lot of space for my imagination.

drawings and famous paintings

 gustav klimt study to portrait of Hermine Gallia

 
painting of Hermine Gallia





  



Seurat study for

CHAPTER 8

Project 3: A Reclining Figure

STAGE 1: The Subject

 
I took a photo of my husband while he was sitting on the sofa in our living-room, in a reclined position, facing me.

STAGE 2: Working Drawings

A4 size of my drawing made with 2Bpencil. Just shapes no tones or shadows marked on it.

STAGE 3: Painting

This is the first stage of my painting. I took two papers of A3 size so I can make bigger brush marks. This is another painting with acrylic paints and I found them much easier to use.
Still to work on the hand shape and face. I would like to leave the sofa and the wall as plain as I can.

At this stage I am pleased with the face and the size of my model so far, I am happy with my colours and the atmosphere of my work .

 This is the finished painting which I am very pleased with. I like the colours, the cold blue wall gives cold reflections on my model's skin. We have cold light brown sofa which doesn't drag a viewers attention from my model. The sofa is just an object for my model to rest therefore we have an neutral colour of it.
Composition is open from the bottom part .
 I used acrylics this time, the layer looks thick but in reality it is very thin .
Feeling of my final work looks calm, relaxed and cheerful.

Chapter 8: The Figure

Project 1 : Figure at the Table


STAGE 1: The Subject

The subject for this project is a model at the table. I asked my husband to sit for a while and to be my guinea pig :)
STAGE 2 : A Working Drawing

I have done some rough sketches of my husband sitting at the table, but only one is quite good.  I couldn’t finish his hands as he was moving very quickly (even when I asked him not to).  So this is a sketch, he is sitting quite straight with one hand behind the table and the other one on the table.

The composition I have to say is open from the bottom, with just a small part of the table at the bottom.  My husband is sitting straight, but his face is a little bit to the right side and he is looking straight at the spectator.  I used just 2B pencil to make this sketch.

STAGE 3 : Starting The Painting

Just a rough quick base for my painting.

The  hand under the table is too small and the one on the table is too big so i have to work on it bit more. I like the dark tone of my background and slightly different tone of hair. Dark brown wall contrasts well with cold blue Tshirt.

 STAGE 4 : Developing The Painting

STAGE 5 : What Have You Achieved?
Did you find it possible to make a fairly complete statment of a figure from your drawing?
Not especially, I found that quite difficult. The more I was painting the more my model was looking older and older. At the end of the day on the final painting my husband looks 20years older than he is:) but this task was all about model and the figure that wasn't a portrait project.