Morning
1923
Step into the awkward silence of a Berlin morning after the party has ended. Max Beckmann’s 1923 masterpiece throws us into a cramped, cluttered room where a woman in a black bodysuit and floppy hat sits heavily, looking disheveled, while a man behind her nurses a drink in exhaustion. The scratchy, frantic lines are pure Expressionism, ditching realistic beauty to show the raw, gritty emotional hangover of post-WWI Germany. It feels like a snapshot of a cabaret scene that went on way too long.
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