The Blue Rider
Artistic Movements, Periods and Styles in 5 Points
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The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter)
• It was founded in 1911, and it is one of the most recognized groups of Expressionism. It is a movement that moved away from the imitation of nature and deformed reality in order to express feelings, emotions, and the subjective vision of the artist.
• Its main members, Kandinsky and Marc, would turn out to be the fathers of abstraction. (They found important symbolic and psychological content in abstraction.) At that stage, abstraction was still partial: we recognize figures and objects, although they are represented in a simple way (as we can see in the painting we have chosen).
• One characteristic of this group of artists is that, despite being expressionists, the artists of the group are characterized by not using neither such hard forms nor such contrasting chromatic associations as those of the group The Bridge, for example. It is more lyrical expressionism, less “violent” when it comes to transmitting moods.
• Their main interests are mysticism, symbolism, and the art forms they consider most genuine: primitive art, popular art, children’s art, and even the art of the mentally ill.
• In their theories, they attach great importance to music. They associate musical composition with pictorial composition. Music is abstraction and color.
Representative Artists: Kandinsky, Marc, Macke, Klee, Jawlensky, Gabriele Münter, Marianne Von Werefkin
Image: The Large Blue Horses (1911). Franz Marc
Recommended links:
Characteristic Elements of Expressionist Painting.
Kandinsky in Murnau, the stage previous to The Blue Rider.
Timeline: Moments of Kandinsky.
Artistic Movements, Periods and Styles in 5 Points: When does Modern Art Start?
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