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German Expressionism was a movement that rebelled against the tradition of Realism,

both in subject matter and style. It applied to an artistic movement that lead

German Avant-Garde painting of the early 20th Century rule. Expressionist painting,

which developed in reaction to the dormant academic standards of the previous century,

discarded refined pictorial naturalism in favor of direct emotional expression

characterized by bold distortions of form and violent color.

Surrealism is a term coined by The French poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917 in

reference to his own writings, as well as the work of certain painters, such as Picasso and

Marc Chagall. In 1924, one of the founders, Andre Breton, revived the term in his

Manifesto of Surrealism, where he describes a “super-reality” connecting the dream

The movement is mostly concerned with the different aspects of the unconscious mind

and representations of the dream state.

Max Pechstein, an expressionist painter, born December 31, 1881, died June 29, 1955,

was a member of “DIE BRUECKE” (the bridge) A group of German e

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The colors remain bright, the only sign of aging

is the yellowness on the uncolored canvas, especially at the bottom. Surrealism grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement, which

before World War I produced works of anti-art that deliberately defied reason; but

Surrealism emphasis was not on negation but on positive expression. It also is strong because because the

subject matter is elusive, meaning and function is unknown and the form is unrecognized. The

surrealist movement of visual art and literature, flourishing in Europe between World

Wars I and II. It’s condition is unusually fine, with strong, boldly-printed

colors. The sheet has only some soft creasing in the margins.

His Painting called “Untitled” a pochoir and collotype was painted in 1934. There is a line of

different tones that might have been spawn by time. These features aim at making a psychological rather than a descriptive

statement. The technique is exaggerated and distorted than the objective features of the

outside world. xpressionist

painters, active just before WWI, who reacted against the impressionism of the Secession

movement. " Drawing heavily on theories

adapted from Sigmund Freud, Breton saw the unconscious as the wellspring of the

imagination. According to the major spokesman of the

movement, the poet and critic André Breton, who published "The Surrealist Manifesto"

in 1924, Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of

experience so completely, that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the

everyday rational world in "an absolute reality, a surreality. Two Voices indicates an adept cutting technique where strokes are

deeply cut into the woodblock.

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