Max Pechsteins
Max Pechsteins painting called "Zwiesprache" (Two Voices) painted in 1920 is of two nude females conversing in a landscape. Its condition is unusually fine, with strong boldly printed colors. The sheet has only some soft creasing in the margins. The subject matter is most probably sexuality and it incorporates the angular forms of Oceanic and African art. The two nudes have a brownish-yellow color with white black outlines. The background of the two nudes are diagonal and symmetrical lines enhanced with luminous blue color. The figures are very abstract with a simple humanistic form and they aren't looking at the observer but at each other. It seems like that Max Pechstein has painted the two nude females from models. "Two Voices" indicates an adept cutting technique where strokes are deeply cut into the woodblock. His woodcut resembles Picasso's "les demoiselles d'avigon". The nudes look like wooden figures but Pechsteins does not have fragments in his figures compared to Picasso's overlapping flat planes and angular lines. And Pechstein was not a cubist; he was influenced by African art, which one can see in the faces and lines of the figure. The visage mirror African masks and the bodies can be associated with wood
That paints -- as Terry Taylor once said -- "the common things with mystery". These features aim at making a psychological rather than a descriptive statement. He was able to present an original subject matter in an unprecedented and fantastic way. Art as a myth kept un-understandable. One can tell, that Pechstein was working in the same period as Picasso because of the way he used complimentary colors and the abstract figures. Through the contrasts between complimentary colors, Pechstein achieves exceptionally luminous chromatic effects, which allows the figures to be the focal point. This is a very true statement since one can see that psychoanalysis, is definitely supported through out in Miro's work. To be legitimate the "message" has to match the experience and it has to be real. " This statement seems fairly true, too. ] strange forces capable of augmenting those on the surface, or of waging a victorious battle against them, there is every reason to seize them. His design is curricular, fluid, and more organic than geometric formations. When a poet writes about nature he's trying to communicate what he/she "feels" when he does not know what color the sky was, what color the leaves were, what is smell like, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. Both to our bloody humanness and our touches (or lack thereof-no matter how we try) with the divine.
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