In 1905, Kirchner, along with Fritz Bleyl and two other architecture students, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich Heckel, founded the artists group Die Brücke ("The Bridge"). From then on, he committed himself to art.
The group aimed to eschew the prevalent traditional academic style and find a new mode of artistic expression, which would form a bridge (hence the name) between the past and the present.
Their group was one of the seminal ones which in due course had a major impact on the evolution of modern art in the 20th century and created the style of Expressionism.
Ilya Shkipin is an artist combining new technologies with traditional expressionism.
He employs gestural paint application to interpret the spectrum of emotional response through amorphous imagery.
In his paintings, he depicts reality by placing anguished figures in dream-like empty, distorted spaces. Figures blend into their environments like the way memories spontaneously pass into and out of oblivion.
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