Art Appreciation: The Blue Rider, an Introduction to German Expressionism
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Q00018678Course date
Number of classes
1 sessionsTutor
Caroline LevisseFee range
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OnlineLevel of study
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Course overview
Course description
During this session, we will start with an introduction on German Expressionism, to identify the key features of this movement. The session will then focus on a specific Expressionist group: “The Blue Rider”.
The session will be structured in three parts with 2 short comfort breaks.
You will learn about the artists who constituted this group, where they came from, how they met and where they were based, how they painted and what their inspiration was.
We will study and discuss paintings and prints made by Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Gabriele Munter, Alexei von Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, and August Macke. They each had specific styles and interests: Kandinsky is associated with the abstract, Munter with the still-life, Jawlensky with the face, and Marc with the animals. But they all shared a love of bold and free colours, and stylised and abstracted forms.
In the last part of the session, we will consider the impact of the First World War on the artists of the Blue Rider and discover what they did after 1918.
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