1957 Vintage Print Plate Emil Nolde The Golden Calf 1910 Expressionist Art

Description: "The Golden Calf, 1910" Source: Emil Nolde, published in 1957 Description Title: "In the summer of 1910 Nolde went back to Ruttebüll where he painted Christ and the Children, Christ at Bethany, The Wise and the Foolish Virgins, and three Old Testament scenes-The Finding of Moses, Joseph's Dreams, and The Golden Calf shown here. This barbarically sumptuous painting is the least restrained with respect to subject matter, and the boldest with respect to form, of all the religious paintings. Four half-naked dancers-yellow-skinned with red hair, and violet-skinned with blue-green hair-are seen whirling before the golden calf, around which blazes the red sacrificial fire. A of spectators, group some musicians, and the hills behind are sketchily suggested by large spots of color. This unreal scene draws its vitality solely from the artist's sense of color. Nolde always associated dancing with the untamed, the savage, the orgiastic. His Wildly Dancing Children of 1909 was the first of a series of bacchantic revels that run throughout his work. When, however, we compare that work with The Golden Calf, we realize to what extent his formal approach had changed. The shimmering light, the atmosphere, the spatial illusionism, and the small patches of color i. e., all Impressionist features have in broad simple planes, which afford room for vigorous, lavish use of color. The limits of the patches of color make a large ornamental drawing. Space, formerly diffuse, is crystallized in the few color planes. Since the work is intended to express an inner image rather than to reproduce natural appearance, the painter gives free play to the suggestive energies of color and linc. Unconcerned with illusionistic effects, he builds his painting on contrasting complementary colors. A warm yellow deepened into orange and red moves diagonally from the upper right across the painting, and this movement is contrasted with a counter- movement in cold blues and violets, which runs diagonally from the upper left. The two movements intersect, and the two dancers at the center mark the point of this intersection. The colors, too, balance each other exactly: the warm orange of the one is in counterpoise to the blue-violet of the other, the golden skirt of one dancer complements the blue hair of the other. Also, the peculiarly ornamental outline of each dancer is a mirror image of the other's, so that the contrapuntal development of colors is rendered in ornamental as well as representational terms. Contrasts, intersecting movements, and the unison of coloristic and ornamental elements characterize the rhythm of the dance embodied in the stamping figures. Nolde has now begun to free his pictorial means from any function of reproducing appearances. His primary concern here is to release their independent energies in order to strengthen their evocative powers, and to achieve the most concentrated expression of his inner images. In these religious pictures he definitively abandons Impressionism, although he retains the brilliant palette Impressionism had led him to adopt. The series of works based on inner images begins, and simultaneously a new method of pictorial organization is elaborated. Wildly Dancing Children of 1909, The Golden Calf of 1910, and Candle Dancers of 1912 mark the successive stages of Nolde's development in his search for the purely evocative picture." Unique and distinctive. Suitable for framing. *All prints are book plates / pages that are professionally removed from an original published book or other type of publication. May have text and or illustrations on reverse side. 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