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1913 Young Couple by Emil Nolde

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英文稿：

This is "Young Couple,"

a lithograph from 1913 by Emil Nolde.

Nolde is known as one of the leading expressionists,

a loose group of artists working mostly in Germany

in the early 1900s and 1910s.

They worked to heighten the emotional,

expressive impact of their subjects

by distorting the forms

or exaggerating the color.

Nolde's subject here is the relationship between the sexes,

and this was a theme throughout his work.

He was looking for themes that would

get to the core of human existence.

It's interesting when you look at the two figures

what you see, there's a certain

ambiguity in their relationship.

The man is grabbing the woman by the wrist,

and she sort of recoils almost,

so we're not sure if she's actually really

afraid of him, there's some kind of threatening

or dangerous situation there,

or if it's just a coy little game that they're playing.

But what we have here are three variations

of the same lithograph.

A lithograph is made by drawing on a stone

and then being printed.

Nolde worked in a commercial print shop,

so it was a shop that didn't really work with artists.

He got very, very experimental.

Instead of just having the edition of 112,

he would change the colors in each print.

Within this edition of 112,

there's actually 68 different color variations,

and we're very lucky here at MoMA

that we have three of those because what it shows you

is how he used the color, he experimented with it,

each time to create a different emotional reading.

By 1913, many of the expressionists like Nolde

were creating their most powerful, very important works.

And then of course just a year later in 1914,

the war broke out in Germany.

If the relationships changed, the subjects changed,

and the mood, which was often somewhat exuberant

in the early years of expressionism

changed quite a bit after this moment.