...Emil Nolde Amidst a period of unification and the eventual collapse of Germany’s national identity, an alliance of artists emerged. Defying traditional academy art training, the German Expressionist artists and their movement was a stance on the renewal of German Art. It was initiated with the focus on primitive cultures, glorifying their lack of Westernization by the means of ethnography. Emil Nolde’s fascination with the ideals of a primitive civilization employed the very essence of German expressionism; the emotion, the energy and the spiritual freedom he embodied in his art became immoral and controversial amongst the modernists and conservatives in Germany. Emil Hansen was born in 1867 into a family of farmers, he changed his last name to Nolde in 1902 out of respect to the Danish-German region of his birthplace. Breaking with family traditions of farming Emil decided to pursue art. Early on, his favor toward nontraditional European art was apparent in his pencil sketches of Egyptian and Assyrian sculptures he drew in 1880. He also began painting landscapes of the German countryside and scenes of the ocean, and local...
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...will take different points of view to create this new idea, and it can never be a wrong answer. When an art piece is being deconstructed it needs to have support to help prove the point, and a way to help prove that, is to peel the layers away from the art piece. Throughout this paper, I will be peeling away Jacques Louis David’s painting called Andromache Mourning Hector. The art historians say the women in the painting is names Andromache, and she was married to Hector, who died in a battle to save his people. They say Andromache’s face is shows pain and her hand is laying opened on her husband’s side asking why did this have to happen to him. Andromache also is holding onto her son for comfort,...
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...certain pieces of art, which leads them to find them inappropriate and misleading. Just because these people cannot handle certain works of art does not mean that the work should be hidden. Imagine painting a watercolor picture, which is very hard to work with, and working on it for months upon months. You strive to get it finished and once you do you feel very proud of what has been accomplished. Naturally, you would want to put your hard work on display to show it off to whoever you please. But right when you get the chance to do that, the watercolor that you painted for weeks and weeks is taken away from you by Nazi’s and banned from ever being seen. In 1940, this is exactly what happened to German painter, print maker, and watercolorist Emil Nolde. People come to the United States to be free and to do what they want to do. America is known as a free country because everyone race, age, and gender are equal. Censorship is something that has been debated over for years. There is always something that has been "exposed" that should not have been, or something that was not revealed that should have been. There is a constant argument over what should be censored and what...
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...Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists: Art and Story CONTENTS SECTION ONE: Marcel’s Studio Visit with Elstir……………………………………………………….. David Carrier SECTION TWO: Film and Video Narrative Brief Narrative on Film-The Case of John Updike……………………………………. Thomas P. Adler With a Pen of Light …………………………………………………………………… Michael Fink Media and the Message: Does Media Shape or Serve the Story: Visual Storytelling and New Media ……………………………………………………. June Bisantz Evans Visual Literacy: The Language of Cultural Signifiers…………………………………. Tammy Knipp SECTION THREE: Narrative and Fine Art Beyond Illustration: Visual Narrative Strategies in Picasso’s Celestina Prints………… Susan J. Baker and William Novak Narrative, Allegory, and Commentary in Emil Nolde’s Legend: St. Mary of Egypt…… William B. Sieger A Narrative of Belonging: The Art of Beauford Delaney and Glenn Ligon…………… Catherine St. John Art and Narrative Under the Third Reich ……………………………………………… Ashley Labrie 28 15 1 22 25 27 36 43 51 Hopper Stories in an Imaginary Museum……………………………………………. Joseph Stanton SECTION FOUR: Photography and Narrative Black & White: Two Worlds/Two Distinct Stories……………………………………….. Elaine A. King Relinquishing His Own Story: Abandonment and Appropriation in the Edward Weston Narrative………………………………………………………………………….. David Peeler Narrative Stretegies in the Worlds of Jean Le Gac and Sophe Calle…………………….. Stefanie Rentsch SECTION FIVE: Memory Does The History of Western Art Tell a Grand...
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