Expressionism, Dadaism, "New Objectivity"

The Last Supper is a 15th century mural painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci and covers the back wall of the dining hall at the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. It represents the scene of The Last Supper when Jesus announces that one of his Twelve Apostles would betray him. Leonardo began work on The Last Supper in 1495 and completed it in 1498 though he did not work on the painting continuously.
This unique painting by Leonardo da Vinci shows how jusus, a leader in this sence can seat with his followers on the same table and discause what matter to them at a crusal time. It also show to whom the conversation was focus on and where the answers are expected to come from. The big tall walls indicates that there was privacy in the area. The time of the picture must have been supper time because there was food on the table.





The Starry Night was painted by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. .Although Van Gogh sold only one painting in his life, the aftermath of his work is enormous. Starry Night is one of his most famous paintings and has become one of the most well known images in modern culture. It was in September 1888 when Vincent paited this paint whiles sitting outside his window the painting shows the village of Saint-Rémy under a swirling sky, in a view from the asylum towards north. The cypress tree to the left was added into the composition

He was born 30 March 1853.Van Gogh began to draw as a child, and he continued to draw throughout the years that led up to his decision to become an artist. He did not begin painting until his late twenties, He spent his early adulthood working for a firm of art dealers, traveling between The Hague, London and Paris, after which he taught for a time in England

It shows a mid night sky blue very bright with some big stars and a half moon. it seems it is a small town with closs community. There is a tall steeple of a church surounded by small houses. There is a big tree on the outscart of the town.

 

Edvard Munch was born in a rustic farmhouse in the village of Ådalsbruk in Løten, Norway, to Laura Catherine Bjølstad and Christian Munch, the son of a priest. Christian was a doctor and medical officer who married Laura, a woman half his age, in 1861. Edvard had an elder sister, Johanne Sophie, and three younger siblings: Peter Andreas, Laura Catherine, and Inger Marie. Both Sophie and Edvard appear to have inherited their artistic talent from their mother. Edvard Munch was related to painter Jacob Munch (1776–1839) and historian Peter Andreas Munch (1810–1863)
According to Edward, 

He was walking along the road with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – he paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – his friends walked on, and he stood there trembling with anxiety – and  sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.

The painting looks scary some how. It most had hapened on a bridge, It seems at the time when the sun was about to set. The person screaming looks like a skeleton and everything seems to loose it original shape proberbly due to the wind.





Hannah Höch was born Anna Therese Johanne Höch in Gotha, Germany. From 1912 to 1914 she studied at the College of Arts and Crafts in Berlin under the guidance of Harold Bergen. She chose the curriculum glass design and graphic arts, rather than fine arts, to please her father. In 1914, at the start of World War I, she left the school to work with the Red Cross. In 1915 she returned to schooling, entering the graphics class of the National Institute of the Museum of Arts and Crafts.

This paint interprite itself completly. it shows exactly what war can do to peaple and their environment. The distruction that always happen in the war zone could be seen ceally in this painting.