German art

Art has always been a profoundly unique human catalyst for expressing hope, inspiration, communication, and passion. As one of the darkest events in human history, the Holocaust (1933-1945) served as the story that suffering artists needed to share with the world. As a German-Jewish artist who died in Auschwitz, Felix Nussbaum, said right before his death in 1944, “When I perish, do not allow my pictures to die with me. Show them to the people.” Though the Holocaust is one of the most tragic…

Alwin Nikolais: Visual Artist Extraordinaire Alwin Nikolais was a modern dance genius whose contributions to dance as an art form are numerous. Known for his innovative dance works and performances, he was a master of all trades who wanted to encompass a variety of visual and auditory art forms to create one large spectacle. Many considered him to be a pioneer of modern dance, and Anna Kisselgoff, a journalist and dance critic, was quoted in The New York Times obituary for Nikolais as saying:…

Art is a means of independent expression. Paintings provide opportunities for the appreciation of hidden messages. This idea is evident in Pablo Picasso´s paintings. Guernica was Pablo Picasso´s most famous painting, his masterpiece. Painted in 1937, Guernica was to portray a powerful political statement. During the Spanish Civil War, Picasso painted Guernica as a response to the devastating bombing on the Basque town of Guernica. Pablo Picasso was one of the most influential painters of the…

Is art really global? The art world often prides itself with its “globalism”, but how global is it? Chin-Tao Wu who is an assistant research fellow at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan raises these questions in her journal”Biennials without borders?” .Wu raises two important questions. Where were the artists born? And, where are they currently living? The relation between the two tell us where the flow is. Wu constructed her data on the Kassel documenta exhibitions that were held between 1968 and…

For my visit to the St. Louis Art Museum, I chose to view one of my favorite paintings that I have been admiring for years. Currently on view in Gallery 215, hangs the oil on canvas by Marc Chagall titled Temptation (The piece is also known as Adam and Eve). This painting is significant to the Surrealist movement, Jewish Artists, and to the popularity of Marc Chagall. Once you understand some of the details of the history of this work and its creator, that might not sound like such a grand…

motion of dance in a way that creates a narrative. Both artists were influenced by changing and uncertain times and choose to photograph subjects in motion as concrete. Brodovitch was challenged with defining a new way of art influenced by surrealism and the combination of art and everyday life as one. Trager was influenced by the choice of either confronting life or separating from it. While Brodovitch accepted his world in flux as inspiration and Trager rejected the change and chose to portray…

However by the 1930s, the Canadian press and general art community complained about the exclusive Canadian identity generated by the Group of Seven. The Group of Seven artists were from Ontario and Quebec and tended to paint these landscapes to shape their Canadian identity. Many critics argued that what emerged was not an overall Canadian identity but more of an Ontario or Quebecois variation. To appease the community, the Group of Seven expanded to include twenty-eight progressive,…

the appointment and then requested that I might withdraw. However, it should not be concluded from all this that I have deceived the worshipful Collegium so as to persuade my gracious Master to increase my salary; he already holds my service and my art in such regard that there is no need for me to travel to Halle in order to improve my salary here. I am sorry, then, that what the worshipful Collegium was so certain of has turned out so uncertainly, but I would add the following: even were I to…

pantheons of German cultural heroes.” For example, the leader of the Germanic people was included, showing Kiefer’s deep interest in the cultural aspects of Germany’s history. Also, there were several lines used in the painting, which illustrated that Kiefer viewed all of these people as intertwined, and thought that they were somehow connected, in relation to impacting Germany’s history. Another reason why this painting shows Anselm Kiefer’s interest in history is that he used many German…

the events that took places in the crematoriums. Olere was a Polish-born French painter and sculptor in the year of 1902 and died 83 years later in the year of 1985. He was accepted into the Academy of Fine Arts until he was sixteen and during this time his art was exhibited in museums and art houses in many areas. David did not just sketch for pleasure. He did it in testimony to all the people who never came back. Olere was an Auschwitz survivor whose drawings, paintings, and sculptures have…