Otto Dix Livres
Otto Dix, peintre et graveur allemand, est célèbre pour ses représentations impitoyablement réalistes et sans fard de la société de Weimar et de la brutalité de la guerre. Aux côtés de George Grosz, il est considéré comme l'un des artistes les plus importants du mouvement de la Nouvelle Objectivité. Son œuvre confronte sans détour les aspects les plus sombres de l'existence humaine et des conditions sociales. Le style de Dix se caractérise par son honnêteté brute et sa capacité à sonder les profondeurs de la psyché humaine.






Otto Dix, 1891-1969 : his life and works
- 160pages
- 6 heures de lecture
It is my wish to come very close, strikingly close, to the times in which we live, without submitting to artistic dogma...I need the connection to the world of senses, the courage to portray ugliness, life as it comes.In the twentieths, Otto Dix was the artist of Neue Sachlichkeit, the New Objectivity, par excellence. Painting in a very realistic, almost photographic style, he chose as subjects the poverty, violence, death, and war that he experienced as a soldier in World War I. After this terrible experience, he painted the famous triptych The War. Dix staged the world as a play, a grotesque farce. But the form he chose to do so was based on the classical canon of beauty. Dix lived his life and served art, for he adhered to the age-old rule that the American painter Ad Reinhardt put in a nutshell: Life is life, and art is art.
Dix
- 351pages
- 13 heures de lecture
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Maler und Werk



