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| Primitivism is a Western art movement that borrows of visual forms from non-Western or prehistoric peoples, such as Paul Gauguin's inclusion of Tahitian motifs in paintings. Borrowings from primitive art has been important to the development of modern art.[1] |
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| German Expressionism surfaced as a cohesive movement towards 1905. Although it encompassed a range of issues and styles, it can be characterized as tortured, anguished, brutally primitive, or passionately spiritual, reflecting elemental cosmic forces. |
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Self Portrait with an Amber Necklace
Paula Modersohn-Becker
1913
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Street, Dresden
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1908
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Fragment 2 for Composition VII
Vassily Kandinsky
1913
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A Crystal Day
Erich Heckel
1913
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The Large Blue Horses
Franz Marc
1911
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Peter Schlemihl: Tribulations of Love
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1915
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- Launched by free verse poet Filippo Tomaso Marinetti in January 1909 when he published his Manifesto of Futurism, a pamphlet sent to thousands or artists and poets.
- Futurist artists sought to portray the dynamism of Modernity; their chief concern was the visualization of movement and energy.
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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Umberto Boccioni
1913
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Armed Train in Action
Gino Serverini
1915 |
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States of Mind I: Farewells
Umberto Boccioni
1911 |
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The Newborn
Constantin Brancusi
1915 |
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Torso of a Young Man
Constantin Brancusi
1924
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