9. Bridge – Symbolize the group’s journey towards, and pursuit of, “ new freedoms”. For the Brucke artists they were expressed and developed in an attempted fusion of art and life. In both their social activities and in their painted and graphic work, the group set about undermining contemporary bourgeois sexual mores, and a revaluation of primitive sources and lifestyle ( largely African , Oceanic and Medieval ).
12. The Brucke artists were influenced by the techniques of the woodcut medium. The use of Vibrant, often non-natural color contributes to the sense of distortion and awkwardness conveyed by most of the nude paintings.