Paraphrase E

Paraphrase E
Paraphrase E
Estonian: Parafraas E
	(image viewable via museum record)
Artist	Ado Vabbe
Year	1914
Type	pastel on paper
Dimensions	30.5 cm × 37.5 cm (12.0 in × 14.8 in)
Location	Tartu Art Museum, Tartu

Paraphrase E (Estonian: Parafraas E) is one of a series of avant-garde drawings called paraphrases by Ado Vabbe in the Tartu Art Museum.^[1]

The drawing shows a set of lines that act as partial contours of possible images, such as faces and the rear end of a horse. Ado Vabbe was the first to bring abstraction to Estonia after studying with Vassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc in Munich from 1911 to 1923. The German Expressionist Group Der Blaue Reiter had a great influence on his own work, and his "paraphrases" influenced young artists in Estonia.^[2]

References[edit]

^ museum record
^ Ado Vabbe discussed by Eda Sepp in Estonian Non-conformist art from the Soviet occupation in 1944 to Perestroika, Chapter 2 in Art of the Baltics: The Struggle for Freedom of Artistic Expression under the Soviets, 1945-1991, edited by Jane Voorhees, Alla Rosenfeld and Norton T. Dodge, exhibition catalog Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2001/2002, ISBN 978-0813530420

Paraphrase A in Europeana website
Paraphrase A/B
Paraphrase III
Paraphrase C/D
Paraphrase Pea

58°22′51″N 26°43′27″E / 58.3808°N 26.7242°E / 58.3808; 26.7242

[1] useum record

[2] Ado Vabbe discussed by Eda Sepp in Estonian Non-conformist art from the Soviet occupation in 1944 to Perestroika, Chapter 2 in Art of the Baltics: The Struggle for Freedom of Artistic Expression under the Soviets, 1945-1991, edited by Jane Voorhees, Alla Rosenfeld and Norton T. Dodge, exhibition catalog Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2001/2002, ISBN 978-0813530420

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