Woodcut

The medium of Tropical Sun by Emil Nolde is ink. Tropical Sun is an example of a woodcut, which means, the artist carves out some of the wood so that only the raised pieces will have ink on them. The ink is thick and sticky so that it will not flow into the cutout areas of the wood. Tropical Sun shows this idea because each color has it's own place on the picture. They don't intersect or blend like a painting would. Emil Nolde's career was a huge mark on the German Expressionism time period. His considered his work experimental but brought to life many moral dilemmas of the first generation German Modernists. The context of his work focused around the concepts of moral dilemmas.