painting, oil-paint
portrait
painting
oil-paint
figuration
oil painting
expressionism
portrait art
Bela Czobel made "Girl in Red Top" with oil on canvas sometime in the early 20th century. Czobel was a Hungarian artist associated with the Fauvist movement. You can see the Fauvist influence in this painting's bold use of colour, and in the somewhat simplified forms. It was a style that rejected academic notions of beauty. Czobel spent a lot of time in Paris, where artists from all over Europe came together. They were working out how to respond to social changes like industrialisation, urbanisation, and the rise of a mass consumer culture. Fauvism was about expressing subjective experience and emotion above representing the outside world naturalistically. To understand an artwork like this, you would look into the history of art institutions, artist networks, and exhibition spaces in cities like Paris at this time. It’s about understanding the social conditions of artistic production.
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