Abstract
Some fteen years after Vincent van Gogh’s death (1853-1890), a new generation of artists found inspiration in the expressive brushstrokes, vivid color contrasts, and emotional charge in his paintings. Initially, it was not his compatriots who most strongly experienced the stylistic impact of his work, but rather French fauves and German expressionists, who made a radical break with the nineteenth-century tradition of faithfully rendering reality. This formed the beginning of an entirely new approach to art which Dutch artists then in turn applied to their own work. Thus, Van Gogh’s pictorial inuence on his own countrymen tended to manifest itself via largely circuitous routes.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context |
Editors | I. Wünsche |
Place of Publication | New York |
Publisher | Routledge |
Chapter | 15 |
Pages | 295-315 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781351778008 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781138712553 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 22 Aug 2018 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Art and globalization
- Canoniziaton of expressionism
- De Ploeg
- Dutch modernism
- Expressionism
- Jacoba van Heemskerck
- Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
- Theo van Doesburg
- exiles
- theosophy