This detail from Karl Schmidt-Rottluff's Self-Portrait shows how thickly he used paint. Also take a careful look at the range of colors he used, how unrealistic but effective they are for skin tones, and how little he's mixed his colors on the canvas.
Detail from Karl Schmidt-Rottluff's Self-Portrait
From the Vincent van Gogh and Expressionism Exhibition
By Marion Boddy-Evans, About.com Guide
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884-1976), Self-Portrait, 1906. Oil on canvas, 44 x 32 cm. Stiftung Seebüll Ada und Emil Nolde, Seebüll.
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