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| LYONEL FEININGER |
In 1906 Feininger returned again to Paris where he took up painting, and in 1910, he was exposed to and influenced by the Cubist movement, and his style became more fragmented. He interpreted Cubism in his own work as structuring a composition through the use of sharp, prismatic planes of color. In 1911 Feininger exhibited at the Salon des Independents, to which he was invited due to his involvement with the German group, Der Blaue Reiter. From 1918 until 1926, he taught at the German school of design, the Bauhaus, which operated between 1919 and 1933, and whose aim was to join art and architecture. Feininger's structural nature fit in perfectly. In 1937 Feininger returned to New York City and two years passed before he began painting again, and when he did, he sought out new forms and ideas. The ocean is one of Feininger's favorite subjects and the abstraction of the forms combined with a sharp, linear quality characterize his style and also show the influence of Cubism and the German Expressionists ( Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter ). In the Channel is one of his later works and, here, line clearly dominates over color. Feininger's work is abstract yet retains a sense of reality. He expresses the movement of the ship and the water through a combination of the fragmentation of the surface and control of the diagonal lines, the result of which is a sharp, rigid image. |
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