Artist of the Week - Emil Nolde (Linking to ABC Wednesday)

 N is for Nolde

Emil (Hanson) Nolde

(1867-1956)

German Expressionist painter and printmaker

  Self-portrait

1917

"There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones...and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed."  ~ Emil Nolde

 1908

 Green Landscape with Red Cloud

"I had an infinite number of visions at this time, for wherever I turned my eyes nature, the sky, the clouds were alive, in each stone and in the branches of each tree, everywhere, my figures stirred and lived their still or wildly animated life, and they aroused my enthusiasm as well as tormented me with demands that I paint them."

Spectators at theCabaret

1911

"The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors."

"What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work."

Lost Paradise

Linking to ABC Wednesday

Artist of the Week and ABC Wednesday

R is for Redon

Bertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon (April 20, 1840 – July 6, 1916) was a French Symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist.

"A title is justified only when it is vague and even aims confusedly at the elliptical. My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They determine nothing. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. They are a kind of metaphor..."

 

Beatrice

 1885

pastel over charcoal; private collection

The Golden Cell

1892  

Oil and gold metallic paint on paper prepared with white ground;The British Museum 

"The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence."

The Boat, aka with Carona

1898

"While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt."

Ophelia

c. 1900-05 

 Pastel on paper mounted on board, The Woodner Collection 

"I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance. But the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased."  ~ Redon

 Flower Clouds

1903

Pastel; The Art Institute of Chicago

"What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art."

Le Bouddha (The Buddha)

c. 1905 

Pastel on paper; Musee d'Orsay, Paris 

"I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops."

Red Boat with Blue Sail
1906-07 

Oil on canvas,  Private collection 

Silence (Le silence)  

1911

Profile and Flowers 

1912  

Pastel on paper, McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX 

"I have a feeling only for shadows."

 

The Red Sphinx
c. 1912 

Oil on canvas,Private collection 

Anemonies In A Blue Vase

If you'd like you can also check out The Pagan's Eye, my blog of original photos. This week, there are several photos shot in rural Southern Vermont. I snapped a moment of Austrian old world charm we came upon while taking a Sunday drive and explored the history of the Green River Bridge and Timber Crib Dam, which was our destination.

 Peace to everyone out there in the world!

 

 

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Artist of the Week: Charles Demuth

American Modernist

Charles Demuth

 (1883-1935)

As a leader of the American Modernist movement, Charles Demuth is best known as a pioneer of the Precisionist style and a master watercolorist. Demuth's Lancaster, Pennsylvania home, now the museum, provided both inspiration and sustenance, and functioned as Demuth's permanent studio location throughout his lifetime. Heralded as a leading light among early American modernist painters, Demuth distinguished himself from his contemporaries in his profoundly-felt renderings of his native Lancaster's factories, grain elevators and churches.

 Self-portrait

1907 

 The Jazz Singer

1916

The Circus

1917

 Turkish Bath with Self-portrait

1918

1919

Essence of a New Church 

 1921

 1924

The Figure 5 in Gold (1928)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The painting above was inspired by this poem by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) 

The Great Figure Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
fire truck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city

 1931

Resources:

Charles Demuth Museum

GBLT Arts

ARTCYCLOPEDIA 

The Art History Archive

Wikipedia 

Art Knowledge News