Tänzerin
Posted: September 25, 2014 Filed under: Art, Painting/Drawing | Tags: dancer, dancers, Danish, emil nolde, German, German Expressionism, lithograph, print, Tanzerin, woman Leave a commentBeautiful dancers by the German/Danish artist Emil Nolde
A dancer moves ecstatically, her fluttering skirt barely covering her body. For Nolde her nakedness and unabashed sexuality tapped into primal instincts, signaling an authentic form of expression and a harmony with the natural world, removed from the decadence of urban dance halls. Yet two sketchily rendered figures to the left, behind the flaming torch, place the performance within the voyeuristic context of the German stage.
Heather Hess, German Expressionist Digital Archive Project, German Expressionism: Works from the Collection. 2011.
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Sunflowers
Posted: February 10, 2014 Filed under: Art, Painting/Drawing | Tags: 20th century, Die Brucke, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, expressionism, flowers, German, German Expressionism, Kirchner, sunflowers, the bridge, yellow Leave a comment
Sunflowers. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. 1909.
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Absence
Posted: January 13, 2014 Filed under: Art, Painting/Drawing, Poetry, Writing | Tags: 1896, 20th century, absence, edvard munch, French, German Expressionism, heartbreak, love, man, memories, munch, Norway, paul eluard, poet, separation, surrealist, tears, woman Leave a commentBy Paul Eluard
I speak to you across cities
I speak to you across plains
My mouth is upon your pillow
Both faces of the walls come meeting
My voice discovering you
I speak to you of eternity
O cities memories of cities
Cities wrapped in our desires
Cities come early cities come lately
Cities strong and cities secret
Plundered of their master’s builders
All their thinkers all their ghosts
Fields pattern of emerald
Bright living surviving
The harvest of the sky over our earth
Feeds my voice I dream and weep
I laugh and dream among the flames
Among the clusters of the sun
And over my body your body spreads
The sheet of it’s bright mirror.
Separation. Edvard Munch. 1896.
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The Melancholy of Departure
Posted: October 24, 2013 Filed under: Art, Painting/Drawing, Poetry, Writing | Tags: 1895, 1902, Chile, departure, edvard munch, farewell, German Expressionism, goodbye, melancholy, munch, Neruda, Norway, Pablo Neruda, poem, song, song of despair, The Melancholy of Departure, time, Vampire Leave a commentA Song of Despair
By Pablo Neruda
The memory of you emerges from the night around me.
The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea.
Deserted like the wharves at dawn.
It is the hour of departure, oh deserted one!
Cold flower heads are raining over my heart.
Oh pit of debris, fierce cave of the shipwrecked.
In you the wars and the flights accumulated.
From you the wings of the song birds rose
Vampire II. Edvard Munch. 1895-1902.
