Although it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the
Blaue Reiter (1911-1914) movement exerted a tremendous influence on
the development of modern European art. Named after a Kandinsky
painting, The Blue Rider, this loose band of artists, grouped
around Russian emigre Wassily Kandinsky and German painter Franz
Marc, sought to reject establishment standards and charge into a
new artistic unknown. Articulating spiritual values and concerns in
an era of rapid industrialization, the artists of the Blaue Reiter
were connected by a shared interest in painting, woodcuts, and
prints, as well as the symbolic values of color and spontaneous
approaches to artwork. Key pieces such as Franz Marc's Blue Horse I
(1911), Kandinsky's Picture with a Black Arch (1912), and August
Macke's Woman in a Green Jacket (1913) reveal varying subjects, but
all channel distorted perspectives, crude lines, and an emphatic,
expressionist use of color. The Blaue Reiter was abruptly truncated
by the onset of the First World War, which killed two of its
leading artists, along with growing dissent between the group's
protagonists. This book reveals the movement's remarkable influence
despite its brevity, presenting key works, artists, and their
reverberating effects. About the series Born back in 1985, the
Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book
collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art History
series features: approximately 100 color illustrations with
explanatory captions a detailed, illustrated introduction a
selection of the most important works of the epoch, each presented
on a two-page spread with a full-page image and accompanying
interpretation, as well as a portrait and brief biography of the
artist
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