Thursday, 11 March 2010

Expressionism/ Romantism Quotes

"in keeping with an expressive aesthetics, the primary object of art was to arouse man's sensibility, to excite, enrich and enoble his passions and susceptibilities"
Wiedmann, August. Romantic roots in modern art: 1979 The Gresham Press : Surrey England. Pg 79 Expressionism and Aesthetics of Inwardness

Relates why warhorse worked so well??

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"In Expressionism generally a marked visionary mentality was instinctively opposed to any realistic and naturalistic tendencies in poetry and art." pg 82: line 6-8
Wiedmann, August. Romantic roots in modern art: 1979 The Gresham Press : Surrey England.Expressionism and Aesthetics of Inwardness

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"What mattered was not the external object as but the artist’s emotional response to it, the pictorial and poetic instinct it aroused him in" Wiedmann, August. Romantic roots in modern art: 1979 The Gresham Press : Surrey England. Pg 83 : Line 8Expressionism and Aesthetics of Inwardness

Instinct of Warhorse??

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