Movement
Marsden Hartley
1913
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 119.5 × 119 cm (47 × 46 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- oil on canvas
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
Cubismpaintingred (color)blue (color)orange (color)Modernismcanvasgreen (color)modern and contemporary artyellow (color)oil on canvasblack (color)oil paint (paint)painting (image making)geometrictrianglesoil paintingpink (color)
About
Unlike many other American artists, Marsden Hartley was more drawn to German Expressionism than to French modernism, and executed this painting in Berlin. Made on the eve of World War I, Movements possesses a turbulent energy that sparks associations with both the vibrancy of modern Berlin and movements of music. Like the Russian Expressionist painter Vasily Kandinsky, Hartley sought to make his work more like music, which he admired for its nonnarrative nature and its potential to be purely spiritual or separate from material reality.
