"Cubism is the art of creating new
wholes with elements that are not based on the reality of what to see, but on
the reality of what one represent." - quote Guillaume Apollinaire
Head of
Fernande, bronze by Pablo Picasso 1909, 40.5 x 24 x 26 cm - Picasso Museum
Paris
“The
pleasure of a mind engrossed in an image.” - Andrew Brighton (former
Curator Public Programmes Tate Modern)
Feininger
painted 'Bridge V' as the last image in a series depicting an old stone
bridge spanning the Ilm River in Oberweimar, Germany. The earliest painting in
the series dates to 1913, the same year that Feininger exhibited with Vasily
Kandinsky and the Blue Rider group, a loose association of German expressionist
artists. This work—made six years later and soon after the artist joined the
faculty of the avant-garde Bauhaus school—reflects a new mode of expression,
inspired by Cubism, in which the subject dissolves into transparent layers and
planes of muted colors.
