1910
oil
canvas
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1910 oil by Alexej von Jawlensky, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This painting shows a face with bold, flat colors—yellow skin, dark eyes, and a red neck. The brushstrokes are thick and uneven, almost like the paint was scraped on. The background is a deep blue, and the nose and mouth are simple black lines. The face looks simplified, like the artist focused on shapes and colors over details. The paint is so thick in spots that it almost stands out from the canvas. Look up impasto next to see how this technique works.
Alexej Georgewitsch von Jawlensky (Russian: Алексе́й Гео́ргиевич Явле́нский, romanized: Alekséy Geórgiyevich Yavlénskiy; 13 March 1864 – 15 March 1941), surname also spelt as Yavlensky, was a Russian expressionist painter active in Germany.
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