So, here is the final verdict on your preferences in art:
Style: expressionism
Genre: portrait
You prefer expressionist portraits, which speaks volumes of your personality. All styles in art emerged for a reason, as a manifestation of a specific vision of the world and philosophy. For expressionists the basic idea was that the world is a source of despair, this being a statement rather than a lamentation.
The attitude towards misery and distress was encoded in expressionist paintings. An expressionist ideal (meaning “type”) is a suffering person, a bundle of nerves whose fate is to feel the pain, and an artist’s pursuit resides in commiseration. This is why expressionist portraits evoke such a disturbing feeling of distress.
There are many factors that contribute to this effect. First of all, your attention is deliberately drawn to the details and peculiarities of the interior that may emanate or be the source of distress. A model, a person portrayed is the repository of spiritual pain – you just need to follow the code of the artist and feel it out. The pain may come from pangs of conscience, envy, jealousy, throes of creation, imcomprehension, unrequited love etc. Expressionists worked out their own artistic principles that make their works so easily distinctive. The effect of deformation was quite common for artistic movements of the time. Expressionists achieved it by applying numerous impressionist brushstrokes to fold into large serpentine lines that accompanied by intense gloomy colours create the pathetic feeling of convulsion. The scales and proportions are mutilated, the colours are ultimately explicit, the objects are laid out in the composition in the most chaotic way, the perspective is distorted, the elements and forms stand in contrast to create the atpmosphere of something irreal, restless and screaming for compassion.
A person who prefers expressionist portraits is a perfect converstationalist. He can really listen to you, feel your sorrows with you and take the pressure off. A great judge of character, he chooses to help and support rather than manipulate people. He is uncomfortable with anything new and falling out from the routine, intolerant to chaos and disorder. In case of ambiguity and risk he will take a back seat instead of rushing headlong to resolve the issue. He works best when busy with a single huge project, not distracted by smaller things, and he will never get bored with whatever he does until it’s comfortable. In his personal life he is just as tolerant and patient. He is compulsively honest, and can forgive anything but unfaithfulness. He is patient and shrewd, but don’t disregard him for lenience and quiet attitude – those are the exterior that hides the raging sea of emotions. Once you underestimate or ignore his core values and requirements, you can lose him and he will never look back.
Must See for you:
Maitres: George Grosz, Lovis Corinth (Germany), Amedeo Modigliani, Antonietta Rafael (Italy), Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria), Lucian Freud (Great Britain), Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (Lithuania, USA), Edvard Munch (Norway), Kees van Dongen (Netherlands), Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (France)
Modern artists: Paul Ruiz (Australia), Dzemma Skulme (Latvia), Gerard Sekoto (the Republic of South Africa)
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