Perseus und Andromeda (Perseus and Andromeda), 1900
Lovis Corinth
Oil on canvas
In this surviving fragment cut down from a larger painting, Corinth updates an ancient myth to give it modern expression. The princess Andromeda - presented by Corinth as a robust, unidealised nude - stands on the top of the slain sea monster, Cetus, from whom she has been liberated by the hero Perseus, clad entirely in armour. Following studies in Munich, Antwerp and Paris, Corinth developed his engagement with classical mythology into a forceful and floridly painted 'modern Baroque'.*
From the exhibition
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art
(March – August 2023)
Explore a period of great upheaval when artists broke with established tradition and laid the foundations for the art of the 20th and the 21st centuries.
The decades between 1880 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 were a complex, vibrant period of artistic questioning, searching, risk-taking and innovation.
The exhibition celebrates the achievements of three giants of the era: Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin and follows the influences they had on younger generations of French artists, on their peers and on wider circles of artists across Europe in Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels and Vienna.
With nearly a hundred works by artists ranging from Klimt and Munch, Matisse and Picasso to Mondrian and Kandinsky complemented by a selection of sculpture by artists including Rodin and Camille Claudel, the exhibition follows the creation of a new, modern art, free of convention, taking in Expressionism, Cubism and Abstraction.
[*National Gallery]
Taken in the National Gallery
Perseus und Andromeda (Perseus and Andromeda), 1900
Lovis Corinth
Oil on canvas
In this surviving fragment cut down from a larger painting, Corinth updates an ancient myth to give it modern expression. The princess Andromeda - presented by Corinth as a robust, unidealised nude - stands on the top of the slain sea monster, Cetus, from whom she has been liberated by the hero Perseus, clad entirely in armour. Following studies in Munich, Antwerp and Paris, Corinth developed his engagement with classical mythology into a forceful and floridly painted 'modern Baroque'.*
From the exhibition
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art
(March – August 2023)
Explore a period of great upheaval when artists broke with established tradition and laid the foundations for the art of the 20th and the 21st centuries.
The decades between 1880 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 were a complex, vibrant period of artistic questioning, searching, risk-taking and innovation.
The exhibition celebrates the achievements of three giants of the era: Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin and follows the influences they had on younger generations of French artists, on their peers and on wider circles of artists across Europe in Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels and Vienna.
With nearly a hundred works by artists ranging from Klimt and Munch, Matisse and Picasso to Mondrian and Kandinsky complemented by a selection of sculpture by artists including Rodin and Camille Claudel, the exhibition follows the creation of a new, modern art, free of convention, taking in Expressionism, Cubism and Abstraction.
[*National Gallery]
Taken in the National Gallery