Unit 3 - Explore Buildings and Communities-Painting Expressionist Houses

 Expressionist Houses

Responding

8. Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

A. Interpret

Interpret art by identifying and describing subject matter.

Interpret art by identifying subject matter and describing details. Why do you think that the artist uses expressive colors? How would you feel if you lived in this town? 

 

Expressionists were a group of artists that wanted to show their feelings about the things they painted, not just to make a copy of the things they saw in real life.

Franz Marc painted this picture of two blue horses. Are horses blue? No, but Franz Marc painted them blue to show the world how he felt about horses. He felt that they were special, almost magical creatures.

Wasilly Kandinsky painted these houses using vibrant colors, a lot like the paintings we looked at last week by Enest Kirchner. Do you  see  in the foreground of the painting the rocks colored purple, green and blue?  And notice the beautiful sky in the background, i see pink, red, blue, green and yellow. Almost a rainbow sky. He must have loved painting skies very much.

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff painted this portrait of a woman sitting in a chair. When he painted this over 100 years ago, many people did not like it. They found it shocking that he used so many colors, and said, that's not what a person looks like. They didn’t appreciate his imagination and creativity. He didn’t listen to them and kept painting, and now his artwork hangs in museums all over the world and is loved by many.

When we paint our houses, we are going to use expressionist colors.

Tempera Paint using expressive color

alternate painting lesson tempera block

My Blue is Happy: A Book About Expressive Colors