Dos medias figuras
1916
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner captures the raw, nervous energy of the Expressionist movement in this frantic sketch of two half-figures. Created in 1916 during the height of World War I—a period that triggered a severe mental breakdown for the artist—the jagged black ink lines and splashes of anxious blue and sickly yellow reflect a world unraveling. Kirchner, a founding member of the avant-garde group Die Brücke, stripped away realistic details to expose the psychological turmoil bubbling beneath the surface, leaving us with faces that look more like haunted masks than human beings.
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