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2009 crayon, acrylic and paste colorMy best friend in California
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Thank you. I suppose expressionist portraiture is a genre.
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It was when artists like Egon Schiele did it. www.google.com/search?q=egon+s…
or Max Beckmann www.google.com/search?q=max+be…
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You're so right. I just gave a friend a book on Schiele, because she's very sensual and never heard of him. His portraits often featured a lot of non-human colors. I suppose Schmidt-Rotluff and Matisse are expressionist potraiture. Thank you for your compliment.
Ten years ago I was fortunate enough to see an exposition of drawings by Schiele and his mentor Gustav Klimt. Schiele was especially dangerous with only a nude girl, a big piece of paper, a pencil and watercolors. The manchild Egon was a genius who died too soon.
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There could be an argument that the 'Fauvism' of Matisse and others was a sort of precursor of true 'expressionism', which seems to have been a German movement rather than French. By the time we reach Klimt I fancy full on 'expressionism' has been achieved.
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You make an excellent point. It could even be said that some of Van Gogh's portraits were expressiionist in nature. True expressionism was indeed a German movement, although the expressionists didn't do a lot of portraits (except for Max Beckmann, as you pointed out). When I mentioned Matisse, I was thinking about the portrait of his wife:
www.wikiart.org/en/henri-matis…
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I would venture to say that practically all of Van Gogh's portraits were 'expressionist' from 'The Potato Eaters' onwards. Before he had to resort to cutting up bits of coloured paper Matisse was already practically sui generis as an artist, working through a bunch of styles all his own almost like Picasso. I thinki many of the artists we've mentioned were 'one off jobs', so individual that we may not see anyone paint like that again. Matisse encouraged me to expriment with Photoshop's 'paper cutout' artistic filter (with varying degrees of 'realism' and success):
www.deviantart.com/aegiandyad/…
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Perhaps we can expand the definition of expressionist portraiture. Cezanne and Toulouse-Lautrect also had an expressionist feeling to their paintings of people.
We can probably add them to your list of "one-offs". There are many, such as Klee and Kandinsky, who were so original that they could never be imitated. Add Marc Chagall to that list also.
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Cezanne was practically a proto-cubist before cubism got started. Kandinsky and Chagall seemed to be moving towards the same kind of abstractionism from different directions, possibly via fauivism. Once prints of other artists' work become available everybody starts been influenced by everyone else, like the unlikely fusion of Vincent Van Gogh and Hiroshige.
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Cezanne could paint a pile of rocks and make it look alive. I agree with you Dr. A, he was a proto-cubist in his landscape paintings. In the late 1800, Japanese prints began to appear in Europe and Van Gogh and Monet included Japanese imagery in their paintings.
www.paintingmania.com/madame-m…
www.vangoghstudio.com/portrait…
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Thank you my dear Tove Anita. There are 5 layers of paint and lines, most of them lost. This is one of my favorite paintings, and you know I'm very critical of my own work.
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You’re most welcome, dear Wayne! Yes, you are way too critical of your work! But I can understand why this is one of your favourites!
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I can guess by the Painting, the Colour tones that this guy was a good friend Wayne, i would guess too that this friend was the one that really knew you as you knew him. understood where you were coming form or going - accepted what you wanted to become, accepted that you Moved to mexico so you could flourish, be free from California - to grow....i guess There is nothing we wouldn’t do for those who are really our real friends and you would do anything for your best friend right?, He must of loved this Painting. i can imagine you gave it too him? i maybe wrong in my Comments. Lovely artwork.
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No, you're not wrong in your comments.
I was working at Target (like Walmart, but no food) when Fausto got a job there in 2002 and I was assigned to train him. He was 25 years younger than I was, but we hit it off immediately. It wasn't long before I gave him the key to my apartment and many times I'd come home to find him sleeping on the futon in the living room.
When I told him I was planning on a month-long trip to México in January 2003, he expressed interest in going with me. At the end of the month, Fausto announced he had found a girl and was going to stay 2 additional weeks.
I returned to California to read a letter advising me that my rent was being raised 40%. I didn't think twice. I sold my furniture, gave a lot away and on the day I was scheduled to leave, Fausto returned, shocked at my decision. We partied the entire nightwith my brother and they said goodbye in the morning.
Fausto came to visit me in México in 2005. Yeah, I sent him the painting. He's the only person I've known with whom I've never had a serious disagreement, let alone an argument. He has a twin brother and they fight all the time, so I guess we are a good fit.
Thank you for this comment. Glad you liked the colors. 5 different levels of color and forms, many of then now invisible.
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I'm happy to know i understood your Relationship between you and your best friend from the Colours. Wayne. really i could picture everything !! You're very welcome. your artwork always holds a great quality.
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Another great portrait, it has a unique character that brings it alive.
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Thank you. I hope the feeling of friendship and respect shows. BTW, I gave Fausto the painting.
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