1957 Vintage Print Plate Emil Nolde Doubting Thomas 1912 Expressionist Brucke

Description: "Doubting Thomas, 1912" Source: Emil Nolde, published in 1957 Description Title: "This scene, too, is part of The Life of Christ painted in the winter of 1911-1912. It is the most austere and the most mature work, formally, of the cycle. Nolde was fully aware that it marked an advance toward more rigorous formal structure: 'Just as I once ran through the scale of colors from the strongest to the most delicate gray, so I now passed from almost complete dissolution of form (as in my painting Gethsemane) to its consolidation. I was no longer interested in striking external effects.... but only in firm, large surfaced, organized structure, expressing spiritual fervor, such as I had tried so hard for in The Last Supper and Pentecost.' (Ibid., p. 171.) This painting takes up once more the same formal problems as the religious paintings of 1910-1911. The forms are as firmly defined as in woodcuts, while the arrangement of the figures is as austere as in The Fin- ding of Moses. But the transformations of the pictorial organism foreshadowed in the latter painting are here carried out consciously and resolutely. Illusionist depth is completely eliminated: what we have is scarcely more than a rhythmically animated flat surface. The figures of the Apostles, reduced to planes of color, form a background like a wall. Depth is suggested only by the forward and backward movement of the colors, and their rhythm is rigorously measured by the vertical figures. The only departure from the vertical occurs at the spot where Thomas bows before Christ. This modulation sets a wave of movement across the surface. In this rhythmic pictorial space, which has nothing in common with illusionist space, the painter's imagination is free to concentrate on the expressions of the figures. This is particularly apparent in the row of Apostles, whose heads form the upper edge of the picture and whose unreal colors and non-naturalistic arrangement make them appear as expressive masks emerging from the surface. In front of this unreal background, the clearly outlined silhouette of Christ stands thin and stiff together with that of Thomas, bowing formally. The two foreground figures are confined to a nearly flat plane; their arms and faces describe an irregular polygon emphasized by the bright flesh colors of Christ and Thomas against the dark background. This expressive line unifies the picture, precluding any illusionist interpretation. The figures are set off against the breathing flat ground, and their unreal, rhythmic, and decorative character invests them with a legendary aura. The colors are mysterious and sonorous. The contrasts between complementarities, which in previous paintings served as the basis for the color arrangement, are here mitigated by gentler transitions. The various colors are muffled: Christ's robe is of a red softened by purple, and the robe of the Apostle in the center is of a cool blue green. A new conception of the picture, already foreshadowed in works as early as 1910, is here clearly stated. The pictorial surface has become a screen for the projection of images reflecting the painter's spiritual life, and the 'picture' itself has become the counterpart of the inner image." Unique and distinctive. Suitable for framing. *All prints are book plates / pages that are professionally removed from an original published book or other type of publication. May have text and or illustrations on reverse side. 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