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Art Analysis



Art Analysis

Introduction

Marsden Hartley was an American painter. He considered one of the most prolific painters of classical modernism in the United States. He came from a small town in the New England state of Maine. He was the only boy a family of nine. At 13, he painted from everyday objects, as he helped out a local naturalist, the indigenous butterflies, insects and flowers to document the environment.

Discussion

First he went to Paris, where he surrounded by his patron Gertrude Stein wrong. Here, he met the sculptor Arnold Rönnebeck and its cousin, the German officer Karl von Freyburg know, and, after a brief visit to January 1913, decided he was a little longer in Berlin to stay, moved in May 1913 with Freyburg in the city and lived there until December 1915. Hartley turned away from his previously clean style of landscape and still-life painting, he made contacts with the German avant-garde and used particularly intense exchange with Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, whose artistic creations, alongside Cubism and Orphism of Hartley's work has been decisive. There was a series of paintings which now seen as icons of American avant-garde (Cassidy, Donna, 2005). Hartley painted them in both figurative and abstract representations of the Prussian army, which he vastly admired as a powerful expression of masculinity. The Kriegstod his friend Karl von Freyburg on 7 October 1914, with whom he had an erotic relationship, processed Hartley in a series of twelve figurative paintings (Cassidy, Donna, 2005).

He forced by the war to return to the United States and went back to his home town to where the "Regional Size" among the visual artists in Maine and will produce an independent, original American art. This later work characterized by mainly landscapes, seascapes and genre paintings in which color is an expressively ...