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Cuno Amiet, Auguste Chabaud, Otto Dix, Vassili Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Edvard Munch, Franz Marc, Otto Mueller, Emil Nolde, Robert Delaunay, Egon Schiele, Chaïm Soutine, etc.
Rouault Georges
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Van Dongen Kees
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Arp Jean
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Zadkine Ossip
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Kandinsky Wassily
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Valadon Suzanne
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Kokoschka Oskar
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Marc Franz
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The tormented art of Edvard Munch and the passionate accents of Vincent Van Gogh prefaced this movement, which developed in Germany and spread to the nordic countries between 1900 and 1925.
Expressionists moved away from purely esthetic preoccupations and a carefree representation of reality. Various associations were created, which brought expressionists together; these gave life to the movement. Among them, Die Brücke (The Bridge), Neue Künstlervereinigung (New Artists’ Association), which later became Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). Der Sturm, a review and a gallery located in Berlin, played an important part in the life of the movement.
The Expressionists’ main intent was to express their personal neuroses and, at the same time, their own preoccupations with and protest against the oncoming war.They were labelled “degenerate” by the Nazi government, which brutally squashed their movement.
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Others movements :
ITALIAN NOVECENTO -
RAYONNISM -
NEW FIGURATION -
Index chosen on the movements, important currents and events in the XX 2nd century art
I wanted to give here, with 46 various short introductions, some general elements on the movements or currents of art, groups or exhibitions, which concern the artists whose works are presented in gallery or were it recently. The table, above, will make it possible to visually locate the periods or dates in time.
Each entry is followed of a list of the principal artists belonging to the movement or current. It may be that there is only one simple relationship between such or such artist and the movement in which in theory one locates it (Click on the names in blue to reveal work or works currently in stock).
It will be understood, some movements are represented much than of others in my gallery. The same artist will be often found in several movements (as each one knows it, it was thus).
Although these some introductions, briefly developed, are not addressed to the specialists, they will forgive me the few lapses of memory or choices which would lend to discussion. I hope that these tiny introductions will be however useful to some of you. Michelle Champetier
