Tag Archives: German Expressionism

distorting mirrors: freaks of mechanical reincarnation

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Dave

Was Otto Dix first and foremost a critic of capitalism? A critic through the bias of the industrial/military/cultural complex that was the beast carrying the burden of material comfort for the lambs. He made sermons without preaching and an artistic … Continue reading →

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TORMENTED FROM WITHIN & WITHOUT

Posted on February 20, 2010 by Dave

It was a turning of the tables and an example of fate changing quickly and hinging on a bureaucratic judgement. Emil Nolde ( 1846-1956 ) was an anti-semite and German jingoist. By an ironic turn of history, he got what … Continue reading →

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Aesthetics of Nihilism: Death as a ''Ready Made''

Posted on November 8, 2009 by Dave

The general chaos was captured in the driving art movement in Germany in the years between the World Wars by German Expressionism. But once Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party began their ascent into power, culminating in 1933 with the … Continue reading →

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Art of Alienation

Posted on October 17, 2009 by Dave

Does alienation have a predefined or finite limit after which death writes its inevitable postscript? Can it become an all-consuming identity; part of a core genetic makeup? Is victimhood  a path forged on the basis of free will, or a … Continue reading →

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Painting on Thin Ice

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Dave

”All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. …As a young … Continue reading →

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Addicted to the Trauma of Realism

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Dave

Can the realistic expression of trauma ever be considered real in the literal sense? The Hitler Nazi regime destroyed many of Otto Dix’s( 1891-1969 ) paintings after the 1937 exhibition, ”Reflections on Decadence” which in Dix’s case were ruthless and … Continue reading →

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