Lost! The memory card for my cam. :(

Wanted to post some pics of my paintings but found that I've misplaced my camera's memory card. Been reading up on Marc Franz (1880-1916) a German artist who pioneered the Expressionist movement in Munich with some other like-minded artists. The group was named the "Blaue Reiter" (Blue Horseman). I thought I couldn't show you his paintings without my camera but my daughter taught me how to find the paintings online and set-up a Flickr account to save my pics. She just called me a noob. o_O



Yellow Cow (1911), Marc Franz



The Tower of Blue Horses (1913), Marc Franz




Unlike what the man-on-the-street thinks, Expressionism isn't just confined to art - it's present in literature, drama, dance, film and architecture. Not that I know very much about Expressionism outside of art. Art is afterall my first and only love. Wikipedia defines expressionism as "the tendency of artists to distort reality for an emotional effect" but I think it's more than that. It was a process of self-discovery and emanicipation for the artists - they often depicted a utopia free from the alienating processes of industry. (The Industrial Revolution - according to Marx - alienates workers from life because it takes the joy out of the process of creating a product. A carpenter who took pride in his art was reduced to a single worker in an assembly line churning out run-of-the-mill tables). Gotta go now. Tell you more about Franz's Expressionist paintings next time. :)