Lyonel Feininger 'Bridge V'-1919

“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.

(source: Philadelphia Museum of Art -  http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/52283.html )

'Le Chahut' by Georges Seurat - 1889/1890

Le Chahut (The Can-can) by Georges Seurat  (1859-1891) - Kröller-Müller collection (NL) - 170cm x 141cm

Hammershøi's 'Dust Motes' - 1900

“Hammershøi doesn’t scream, he wispers.” - quote Andrew Graham-Dixon in ‘The Art of Scandinavia’ reffering to ‘The scream’ of Edvard Munch.

Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916): Sunbeams or Sunlight. “Dust Motes Dancing in the Sunbeams”. Oil on canvas | 70 x 59 cm | 1900 – Danish Symbolist.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2008/jun/25/art.denmark

 

 

'Mercurius' by Marcel Lempereur-Haut (B) - 1930

"Through geometry one finds nature!" –quote LH

http://www.ina.fr/video/RCC00010716

‘Mercurius’ by Marcel Lempereur-Haut (B) – 1930 Location: MSK Gent – Belgium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Lempereur-Haut

'Excavation' by Willem de Kooning - 1950

"The abstract-expressionists prefer expression over perfection, vitality over finish, fluctuation over calmness, the unknown over the familiar, the veiled over the clear, the individual over society and the inner over the outer." - quote by William Seitz

Excavation, 1950, oil and enamel on canvas, 81 x 100 1/4 inches

Willem de Kooning – American, born Netherlands, 1904-1997

Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund; restricted gifts of Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Noah Goldowsky, Jr., 1952.1 © The Art Institute of Chicago