1920
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Perseus and Andromeda is a 1920 by Lovis Corinth, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This sketch shows a muscular man in heavy clothes standing next to a naked woman. Her arms are up, like she’s bracing herself. The man’s face is hidden under a hat, and his body is wrapped in a thick coat or cloak. The lines are rough and scratchy, almost like hurried pencil strokes. The woman’s pose looks tense—her legs are slightly apart, and her hands are clenched. The artist left some areas dark and others nearly blank, which makes the figures stand out against the light background. Next, check out chiaroscuro to see how light and shadow create drama in art.
Lovis Corinth was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism.
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