“Warning! A
collection of paintings by the ...obscure painter Paul Gauguin... is
advancing slowly towards Berlin. Following on the idiot Van Gogh
comes now – Gauguin.”
Art
critic of Die Kunst-Halle
(1905).
Digressing
from traditional pictorial images displaying
a likeness of reality, the newly emerging Impressionist art of the
late 19th century favored the use of dramatically
expressive colors and brushworks depicting
the artist's individual perceptions and feelings.
Rather
than presenting expressionism as the traditional genre style, Los
Angeles County Museum of Art's (LACMA)
latest exhibit, Expressionism in
Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky, sheds new
light on key developments in the early 20th century that
gave rise to an international visual arts dialogue. In response to
works of such modern masters as Van Gogh, Cézanne
and Gauguin, new aesthetic approaches were generated, leading to the
evolution of expressionism from
Brücke
and Gauvers through cubism and the Blaue Reiter group's abstraction,
until the outbreak of war in 1914.
Organized
chronologically and geographically, Expressionism
in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky showcases
an impressive collection of
domestic and international loans spanning over 40 artists,
represented in over 90 paintings, 45 works on paper and approximately
30 ephemera objects, including the works of Wassily Kansianky, Emil
Nolde, Gabrielle Münter,
Franz Marc, Henri Matisse, Robert Delaunay, and Pierre Bonnard.
Ranging
from 1870 to 1914, significant works encompass, among others, the
Wheatfield with Reaper displayed at Van Gogh's first
exhibition in Germany in 1901, Pierre Bonnard's Mirror in the
Green Room (1908) and Van Gogh's the Poplars at Saint-Rémy
(1889).
The
exhibit runs through September 14, 2014, at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art (LACMA), at Resnick Pavilion, located at 5905 Wilshire
Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036. For more information call (323)
857-6000 or visit http://www.lacma.org/
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