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Showing posts with label Expressionism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Expressionism. Show all posts

Saturday, 10 November 2018

Cycle

Natalia Goncharova - Velocipedist - 1913

Lyonel Feininger - Das Radrennen - 1912

Umberto Boccioni - Dinamismo di un Ciclista - 1913

Saturday, 21 October 2017

Rebis

Heinrich Nollius - Rebis - Theoria Philosophiae Hermeticae - 1617

David Burliuk - Two tastes in one - 1908

Marc Chagall - Homage to Apollinaire 1911-2

Friday, 8 September 2017

Ilinx

Mark Gertler - Merry-Go-Round - 1916

Cyril Powers - The Merry Go Round - ca. 1930

 Hugó Scheiber - Vurstli - 1932

Monday, 31 July 2017

Type

Vassily Ermilov - Composition with letter - 1915
via Malevich Squared

Theo van Doesburg - Monogram 'G.R.' (Gerrit Rietveld, I suppose) - 1919

Lothar Schreyer - Sanctifica Me - 1923

Wednesday, 12 July 2017

Cross Vault

Robert Delaunay - Saint-Séverin - 1909

Felix Delmarle - Bretonnes - 1910s

Otto Morach - Das Bild vom gotischen Dom - 1918-19

Friday, 24 July 2015

Eminently Triangle

 "But if cattle or lions had hands, so as to paint with their hands and produce works of art as men do, they would paint their gods and give them bodies in form like their own—horses like horses, cattle like cattle."
Xenophanes, fragments 6, c.a. 580 BC

Wobbe Alkema - Composition - 1921

Oskar Donau - Sonnenrad - 1918
via Peter Weibel

Gerardo Dottori - Paese umbro - 1932

“A triangle, if it could speak, would likewise say that God is eminently triangle, and a circle that God’s nature is eminently circular” 
Baruch Spinoza, Letter 56
quoted by Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Spinoza’s Anti-Humanism: An Outline

Saturday, 25 October 2014

There might be

"It is not necessary to look for God. Let us give him to the world! There is no God in the world, but there might be. The road of struggle for socialism... is what is meant by God-building."
Anatoly Lunacharsky 
quoted in Roland Boer -  Lenin, Religion and Theology - 2013  

Bruno Taut - View towards the East - Die Stadtkrone - 1919

Vladimir Krinski - A Temple of Machine Worshippers - 1917

Charles Demuth - Incense of a New Church - 1921

"We should not now take fright when the fruits of this optimism ripen, when the acid of this kind of culture trickles down to the very lowest levels of our society so that it gradually begins to tremble from burgeoning surges and desires, when the beliefin the earthly happiness of all, when the belief that such a general culture of knowledge is possible, gradually transforms itself into the menacing demand for such Alexandrian happiness on earth, into the invocation of a Euripidean deus ex machina!"
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, ed. R. Geuss & R. Speirs, Cambridge, 2007, 125.