German Expressionists and their Contemporaries
This fall, Regina plays host to the Caligari Project, a city-wide arts festival, public celebration and creative exploration of German Expressionism in its many forms. The project takes its name from classic silent horror film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), which fuses a dark story of tyrannical authority with a graphic, distorted style. As its contribution, the MacKenzie Art Gallery is proud to present German Expressionists and their Contemporaries, an exhibition of over forty graphic works drawn from the Gallery鈥檚 small, but significant holdings, supplemented by works from the Winnipeg Art Gallery, selected by Andrew Kear, Curator of Historical Canadian Art. Included in the exhibition are prints by key figures鈥�Max Beckmann, K盲the Kollwitz, Franz Marc, Egon Schiele, among others鈥攔epresentatives of a movement which transformed Europe鈥檚 angst in the first decades of the twentieth century into images filled with longing for alternatives to a decaying aesthetic and social order.
The term 鈥淓xpressionism,鈥� as it was applied to visual art in the early 20th century, came to define a number of outlooks and artistic practices cultivated by individuals and groups working, for the most part, in Dresden, Munich, Berlin, and Vienna before and after World War One. While Expressionist artists shared certain interests and aversions鈥攍ove for 鈥減rimitive鈥� Oceanic and African art, for example, as well as a disdain for bourgeois social values鈥擡xpressionist artists explored a variety of complicated and sometimes contradictory themes. Contrasts between freedom and restraint, the individual and the masses, and idealism and anarchy populate Expressionist imagery. Such disparities perfectly encapsulate the tempestuous mood of a period marked by social upheaval and violent conflict.
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This fall, Regina plays host to the Caligari Project, a city-wide arts festival, public celebration and creative exploration of German Expressionism in its many forms. The project takes its name from classic silent horror film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), which fuses a dark story of tyrannical authority with a graphic, distorted style. As its contribution, the MacKenzie Art Gallery is proud to present German Expressionists and their Contemporaries, an exhibition of over forty graphic works drawn from the Gallery鈥檚 small, but significant holdings, supplemented by works from the Winnipeg Art Gallery, selected by Andrew Kear, Curator of Historical Canadian Art. Included in the exhibition are prints by key figures鈥�Max Beckmann, K盲the Kollwitz, Franz Marc, Egon Schiele, among others鈥攔epresentatives of a movement which transformed Europe鈥檚 angst in the first decades of the twentieth century into images filled with longing for alternatives to a decaying aesthetic and social order.
The term 鈥淓xpressionism,鈥� as it was applied to visual art in the early 20th century, came to define a number of outlooks and artistic practices cultivated by individuals and groups working, for the most part, in Dresden, Munich, Berlin, and Vienna before and after World War One. While Expressionist artists shared certain interests and aversions鈥攍ove for 鈥減rimitive鈥� Oceanic and African art, for example, as well as a disdain for bourgeois social values鈥擡xpressionist artists explored a variety of complicated and sometimes contradictory themes. Contrasts between freedom and restraint, the individual and the masses, and idealism and anarchy populate Expressionist imagery. Such disparities perfectly encapsulate the tempestuous mood of a period marked by social upheaval and violent conflict.
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