Expressionism
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THE HISTORY OF IMPRESSIONISM – Discovery Art Artist (documentary)
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“My colour has no symbolic function whatever. I don’t want any colour to
be noticeable. I want the colour to be the colour of life, so that you
would notice it as being irregular if it changed. I don’t want it to
operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent. I don’t
want people to say, “Oh, what was that red or that blue picture of
yours, I’ve forgotten what it was.”
Lucian Freud a Painted Life
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“The point is that one sees things at different moments with different
eyes. Differently in the morning then in the evening. The way in which
one sees also depends on one’s mood.. ..coming in from a dark bedroom in
the morning into the sitting room one will, for example, see everything
in a bluish light. Even the deepest shadows are topped with bright
light. After a while one will accustom oneself to the light and the
shadows will be deeper and everything will be seen more sharply. If an
atmosphere of this kind is being painted it won’t do merely to sit and
gaze at everything ‘just as one sees’. One must paint precisely the
fleeting moment of significance – one must capture the exact experience
separating that significant moment from the next – the exact moment when
the motif struck one.. .In some circumstances a chair may seem to be
just as interesting as a human being. In some way or another it must
have caught the interest in which case the onlooker’s interest must
somehow be engaged in the same way. It’s not the chair that should be
painted, but what the person has felt at the sight of it [written in
Saint Cloud, 1890 – probably related to the chair of Vincent van Gogh”
The Scream – Munch Edvard
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“I am not an abstractionist.. .I am not interested in the relationships
of color or form or anything else.. .I’m interested only in expressing
basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on — and the fact
that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures
show that I communicate those basic human emotions.. .The people
who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I
had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their
color relationships, then you miss the point!”— Mark Rothko
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“If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.”
Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
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“Every good painter paints what he is.”
Jackson Pollock documentary