大きな静物室内（青）
1949
Painted in 1949 during his exile in New York, Max Beckmann’s final years were filled with this kind of intense, graphic energy. The scene is a claustrophobic jumble of vases, strange eye-like flowers, and a crumpled red cloth, all shouting in bold blues and greens. See that newspaper in the bottom right? It anchors this dreamlike chaos in reality, a classic trick of the Expressionist movement to mix the mundane with the emotional. Beckmann turned ordinary objects into heavy symbols, making a simple table setting feel like a psychological thriller.
- Technique
- Oil paint
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