Living in raw color by brandon prairie

This is a portrait painting of Fränzi Fehrmann that was completed in 1910. She's sitting in a chair where the back has been carved into the shape of a naked woman. The sharp angles and jagged lines resemble tension and anxiety at the time of being painted. Thick black brushstroke outlines around her face make it hard to miss as it's being heavily emphasized. Very simplistic shapes are used in the painting as well.

This painting was completed in 1910: the two girls shown here go by Marcella and Senta, and this is a depiction of their first time speaking with one another. The girls became a distinctive feature in many of Kirchner's paintings. The girls' postures are very poor, resembling weakness or anxiety. Kirchner used very simplistic shapes throughout the painting, in addition to using a high contrasted color scheme; the woman on the left has very unnatural colors, while the woman on the right is more naturalistic looking.

This is another portrait of Fränzi Fehrmann (she and her siblings regularly modeled for Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (and Die Brücke). This static painting has a high saturation of color in certain areas, yet very dull in some areas. The lighter color scheme with cautious brushstrokes are depicting light energy (calming or soothing).

This portrait painting of two women standing in front of a stove talking while nude is depicting candid raw emotion. Though the color isn't as unnatural as many of his other paintings, you can see the intensity in the two girls' faces, defiantly looking right at the viewer with aggression and focus. Similarly like his other paintings, Kirchner uses simplistic shapes to form human bodies. This painting also repetitively uses a lot of the same skin tone colors, creating a solid rhythm throughout this piece.

This is a portrait painting of Dodo, completed in 1910. Kirchner uses a full range of values (shades) on the woman emphasized in the middle of the painting, showing the light hitting her on certain spots of her body. The painting entails the use of rounded, soothing lines yet Dodo's posture is very poor and she seems to have tears coming out of her eyes, showing no actual aggression.

This picture depicts three women (the girlfriends/spouses of Kirchner and his pupils) bathing nude up in the mountains of Switzerland. There is a lot of natural color used throughout this painting in addition to the high contrast between the green leaves and the peach/orange bodies. He also uses simple shapes throughout the whole painting.

This oil on canvas painting depicts four women performing a Hungarian folk dance. The woman located in the center of the painting is in mid-move while dancing, showing that there is solid movement throughout the painting, which can also be seen within the thick, complete brushstrokes. Kirchner, again, uses very bright colors, showing the energy, passion, and vibrance behind this moment in time.

This is yet another nude portrait painted by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; it was started in 1910 and reworked in 1920. There are a lot of sharp-angled lines and highly saturated, nonnatural colors. Giving the viewer a natural sense of the painting being complete, unity is very evident in this piece of static art.

Rather than being a portrait of somebody sitting still, Kirchner decided to go another route with this painting. Kirchner focused on his paintings showing all raw emotion without any apology, and this is an example! He uses dark, thick outlines while also using simplistic shapes and forms to really emphasize the woman who is bowing in the painting. In addition, he uses bright, vibrant colors to get the viewer to feel the passion and energy behind this piece.

This painting was completed in 1912, about a year before Die Brücke was no longer in existence. This painting is depicting three women sitting in Kirchner's studio chatting. He didn't use very bright colors in this piece, unlike most of his other work, showing that this was a 'darker' time for him. The women are outlined in thick, black brushstrokes, showing that there was some tension while this was being painted.