Self-Portrait by Ernst Kirchner June Picks the delicate tonal range and

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

Yamamoto Baiitsu renders bamboo with the quiet authority of the Nanga Literati tradition — ink-wash strokes build each stalk from the ground up

Angular floral forms interlock with clean geometric scaffolding

charged with quiet intensity

and this image is the proof

Self-Portrait by Ernst Kirchner June Picks the delicate tonal range andSelf 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