Karl Schmidt-Rottluff was a German expressionist painter and printmaker from 1884-1976 who was interested in "primitive" art and expressing emotion through high-keyed color. Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian expressionist painter from 1887-1986 known for his nervously animated brushwork. He fled Austria for England in 1934 due to being deemed a "degenerate" by the Nazis, where he painted anti-fascist works. Richard Diebenkorn was an American abstract expressionist painter from 1922-1993 who worked in San Francisco and incorporated the figure into his abstractions using oil and ink on paper and canvas.

1. Art Student Select
Andrew Wyeth
Claude Monet
Georgia O’Keeffe
Henri Matisse
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Marc Chagall
Oskar Kokoschka
Paul Cezanne
Richard Diebenkorn

2. Richard Diebenkorn
American 1922-1993
San Francisco abstract expressionist who
also used the figure in his abstractions
(‘figurative-abstract-expressionism’).
He used oil and ink on paper as well as on
canvas.

7. Diebenkorn

9. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
(1884 – 1976)
German expressionist painter and
printmaker interested in "primitive"
art and the expression of extreme
emotion through high-keyed color.

14. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

15. Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian 1887 – 1986
Expressionist painter, his brush has a
a nervously animated style.
Deemed a degenerate by the Nazis,
Kokoschka fled Austria to England in
1934 where he painted anti-Fascist
works and portraits, as well as
landscapes in watercolor.

20. Andrew Wyeth
American 1917-2009
Wyeth said that although the public
considered him a realist, he thought of
himself as an abstractionist.

26. Georgia O'Keeffe
American 1887 – 1986
Her paintings emphasized abstract form
and mystical light.
Images you think are small in size are actually
big -- and vice versa.

33. Paul Cezanne
French, 1839-1906
Cezanne’s rhythmic, exploratory brushstrokes
create planes of color.
He laid the foundation for the transition from
19th-century Impressionism to 20th century
Cubism.
Both Matisse and Picasso said “Cezanne is the
father of us all.”

34. Cezanne 1905 Picasso 1907

40. Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926
Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting.
Throughout his career, he worked on "series" paintings,
in which a subject was depicted in varying light and
weather conditions.
The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of
his painting Impression, Sunrise.

48. Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954
A bridge between Impressionism and
modern art, Matisse helped found the Fauve
(Wild Beast) school, so-called for its “wild”
color.
He was also influenced by the patterned art
of Morocco.

52. Marc Chagall
Russian 1887-1985
Chagall used bright color and themes
from Jewish folktales in a dreamy
surrealist and cubist style.

56. Eugene Jansson
Swedish, 1862-1915
Fanny Brate
Swedish 1861-1940

57. RESPONSE TO THE MASTER

58. Your response to the
master can be any subject
using a color and brush
style similar to the painting
you studied.
If using a photo as a
reference for your
response, be sure it has
clear light and shadow.
(Makes it easier.)
Responses to Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

60. Notes to Myself When I Start a Painting
Richard Diebenkorn
1. Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later.
2. The pretty, initial position which falls short of completeness is not to be valued – except as a stimulus for further
moves. Use initial fresh qualities. Respond to them. But consider them absolutely expendable.
3. Do search. But search in order to find other than that which you searched for.
4.. Somehow don’t be bored – but if you must be bored, then use it for action. Use its destructive potential.
5. Mistakes can’t be erased but they can move you from your present position.
6. Keep thinking about Utopia.
7. Tolerate chaos.
8. Be careful only in a perverse way.