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Monday 29 April 2024

Artlyst: Tate Expressionists Exhibition Reveals Spirituality and Past Gender Disparity

My latest exhibition review for Artlyst is on Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider at the Tate Modern:

'Apart from Impressionism, most early modern art movements had significant spiritual inspirations and motivations. Expressionism, whether that of The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter) or The Bridge (Die Brücke), was no different and may have been one of the movements where spirituality was of the most influence.

The Blue Rider claimed that art knows no borders, and they sought to demonstrate the reality of that claim in Der Blaue Reiter Almanac, published in 1912. Yet, as the room specifically dedicated to images with a spiritual focus shows, their aesthetic concerns developed parallel with their belief in the deep spiritual significance of artistic experimentation, which drove their creative investigations.'

See also my review for Artlyst of After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art.

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