Among the gifts that will be shown in «Serial Impulse» are Lichtenstein's «
Expressionist Woodcuts,» seven works in a series from 1980; Ruscha's «Exploding Cheese,» «Cheese Oval» and «Cheese Crescent» from the 1976 series «Various Cheeses»; Rauschenberg's «Test Stone # 5» from the 1967 series «Booster and 7 Studies»; and Oldenburg's «Notes,» 12 works in a series from 1968.
While their execution is generally jaggedly severe (reminiscent of
Expressionist woodcuts or the angularity of German Renaissance drapery folds), the resemblance to mid-career Pollock and de Kooning is unmistakable.
The rest of the canvas is densely filled with bold, instinctual marks like the harsh black lines of German
Expressionist woodcuts in the first decades of the twentieth century.
Dynamic abstract
expressionist woodcut print done in neutral tones by Rikio Takahashi, 1958.
Not exact matches
The first section traces the
woodcut's emergence as a modern medium with works by Paul Gauguin, Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, and the German
Expressionists.
[5] She created works in a variety of media including oils and watercolor as well as genres including
expressionist painting, graphic art, sketching, and
woodcutting.
Woodcut prints, which have a long history in Germany, were adopted by the German
Expressionists as a means of escape from modern metropolitan anxiety.
Noted for his forceful expressionism - exemplified by a bold use of colour in his landscape painting as well as his portrait art - his most significant contribution is probably his
woodcuts, which are among the most powerful examples of
Expressionist printmaking.
Stylistically, the artist's work is informed by a diverse range of sources, including Abstract
Expressionist painters such as Franz Kline and Clyfford Still, Japanese calligraphy and
woodcuts, and pop - era artists such as Rauschenberg and Warhol, who recontextualized commercial techniques within the paradigm of painting.
However Arjan not explores the dramatic contrast between areas of intense light and heavy shadows that led, for example, the German
expressionists intense research centre to chart the universe, especially the
woodcuts.