Art vs Art #3
Surprising similarities in different ages
Art & Design
March 7th, 2016
March 7th, 2016
The most interesting part of comparing works of art belonging to different periods or art movements resides in finding a common substratum in the use of the various shapes and themes artists deal with. Hence, a glance, a gesture or the portrait of a woman can be found both in an expressionist painting and in a neoclassical one.
Artists such as Kirchner or Mondrian - the first known for his thick and sharp brush strokes, the latter for his precise and geometrical lines - have also expressed their art through typically romantic themes, such as female nudes, and archetypical ones, such as the representation of the tree.
#1 Girl Before a Mirror (1915) - Karl Schmidt-Rottluff vs The Cheval Glass (1876) - Berthe Morisot
#2 The Flowing Hair (1952) - Henri Matisse vs Anthropometrie (ANT 130) (1960) - Yves Klein
#3 Dora et le Minotaure (1936) - Pablo Picasso vs Beauty and the Beast (c. 1908) - Henri Rousseau
#4 Amandier en fleurs (1890) - Vincent van Gogh vs Avond (Evening): The Red Tree (1908) - Piet Mondrian
#5 Nude Woman (c. 1841) - Isidore Pils vs Female nude from behind (c. 1740) - Pierre Subleyras
#6 Seated Girl (1910) - Max Pechstein vs Bather with Loose Blonde Hair (c. 1903) - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#7 The Last Judgement ( 1508) - Hieronymus Bosch vs First abstract watercolor (1910) - Vasilij Vasil'evič Kandinskij
