Self-Portrait by Ernst Kirchner June Picks the boats in careful ink

the boats in careful ink line

The flat planes of color

the delicate tonal range and surface texture of the original are captured with full fidelity

allowing individual organisms to assert their own bilateral and radial geometries

and other insects

Self-Portrait by Ernst Kirchner June Picks the boats in careful inkSelf Portrait by Ernst Kirchner confronts the viewer with the unmediated intensity that defined German Expressionism. Kirchner's characteristic handling slashing brushwork, angular distortion of form, color pushed beyond naturalism into emotional register turns the self portrait into something closer to psychological document than likeness. The composition is close and insistent, the figure pressing toward the picture plane with a restless energy. It