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Sometimes making art is like taking a leap of faith... in this case it's having faith in my materials: a largish canvas, a limited pallet of acrylic paints, some well loved brushes, water and varnish... throw them altogether with time and patience... the technique on this and most of my newer work is a longer process of building-up very thin and often watery layers... allowing the paint to flow as it wants and then loving the natural movements in the work. I really enjoyed making this one!
ERICH HECKEL or German Expressionism
A magnificent exhibition in Ghent (Belgium)
At the end of 2024, the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) dedicated an exhibition to the German artist Erich Heckel (1883-1970). Heckel was one of the leading figures of German Expressionism and a co-founder of the artists' association Brücke.
From the end of the 19th century, young artists in Germany resisted the fleeting nature of Impressionism. In Dresden, the Brücke artists' association was founded in 1905. The 22-year-old Erich Heckel was one of the co-founders. This association of self-taught artists aimed to express strong joie de vivre in a common style of bright colors and angular forms. This style is called Expressionism: the artist tries to convey inner emotions through form and color rather than objective reality.
At the outbreak of World War I, Heckel was in his early thirties. Nevertheless, he already enjoyed a solid reputation in Germany. During the war, he became acquainted with Flanders. As a nurse for the Red Cross, he traveled to Ghent, Roeselare, and Ostend. On the hospital train, assembled by Walter Kaesbach, a curator of the Berlin National Gallery, were other painters and writers. As a result, the emergency hospital at Ostend station grew into a true artists' colony. Heckel met James Ensor there and developed a special friendship with his fellow nurse, the young poet Ernst Morwitz, whose literary world had a significant influence on his visual work.
During the war, Heckel's artistic activities continued. Between their shifting duties, the members of the artists' colony had enough time to devote to their art. In addition to several paintings, many gouaches, watercolors, drawings, and graphic works have been preserved: views of Roeselare, Ostend, and Ghent, sometimes featuring picturesque figures and bathers, but also still lifes, landscapes, and seascapes.
Despite the historical context, Heckel's stay in Flanders extended beyond World War I. Heckel was not a 'war artist' but a nurse working mainly behind the front lines. As a draftsman, he made numerous sketches of the places he visited and the people he observed. As a painter, he was particularly impressed by the Flemish landscape and the North Sea, with their unique cloud formations where light always tries to break through; motifs that seemed both foreign and familiar to him. The Flemish landscapes reminded him of the early days of the Brücke, when Heckel and his friends Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff would go out to paint en plein air.
(Source : MSK GHENT – BELGIUM)
I was living in Australia when Brett Whiteley died and was thinking of him when I tried to come up with a name for this yarn.
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In my current A2 work, for my coursework I am exploring the question "how do artists use colour expressively in portraits?" This piece has been inspired by the German expressionist artist Kathe Kollwitz, who did artwork based on the holocaust, therefore her work reflects emotion through colour. So I photographed my friend, using black and white filters to reflect sorrow. I then used charcoal and chalk to draw her. Whereas the bright, messy colours in the background are inspired by modern artists Lionel Smit and Andrew Salgado.
A truly tail-ented artist, Beaufere works in acrylics and draws his inspiration from dog food. When a favorite brand puts him in a good mood, his waggish sense of fun creates these marvelous canvases.
To complete the Art History project I did last year, we had to choose an art movement and base a photographic project on it. I chose Abstract Expressionism, as I loved the bright colours and the narrative of emotions you could get from the work.
During this project I also looked at using water and clingfilm in a scanner to created abstract textures. This image is several peices of clingfilm coloured differently and placed together randomly in photoshop.