Kunst 5. Albrecht Dürer 3

Tonight in the Dürer comic we read about his famous woodcut of the "Four Riders of the Apocalypse."

We read on Wikipedia about what each horseman symbolizes, then I read Revelations ch. 6, where they appear, then we looked at a number of other images of the motif. 

Great for a little kid at bedtime, huh? 

Kunst 3. Marianne von Werefkin and Expressionism

This afternoon we looked at and talked about many paintings from Marianne von Werefkin, one of my favorite expressionist artists, and discussed that school. 

Kunst 2. Styles and schools

Today and a couple of days ago we talked about and looked at various basic styles and schools of art.

Realismus / realistisch
darstellen / darstellend
abbilden
abstrakt
Impressionismus / impressionistisch
Surrealismus / surrealistisch
Stillleben

Kunst 1. Horst Antes, Franz Marc, Albrecht Dürer

Today J and I were looking at some of the work of the German artist Horst Antes, specifically his famous "Kopffüßler":

Later, when we were reading Roger Hargreaves's story Mister Sorge, J pointed out that the protagonist was kind of a Kopffüßler.

Before I started this blog, I would often show J the work of notable artists. I printed images of works, then we would glue them into his Kunsthefte, label them, discuss them, and he would do little imitations. Here are his two first Kunsthefte, from 2014-2015:

That's Albrecht Dürer's rabbit there. The artist I emphasized most was Franz Marc, for two reasons: 1) animals!; and 2) colors!

Here are some of J's creations in the Franz Marc style (from March 2014):

I labeled this post Kunst 1 because I'm going to try to be a little more systematic about discussing art with J again and make it into a regular blogpost series. I'll have a next post soon on some of the other artists we worked on in the notebooks.