Expressionism

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20th-century art movement art movement cultural movement modernist movement

Expressionism is an early 20th-century modernist art movement characterized by the intense, subjective distortion of reality to convey emotional experience rather than physical accuracy.

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Surface form Occurrences
German Expressionism 31
Expressionist architecture 5
Expressionist painters 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf 20th-century art movement ⓘ
art movement ⓘ
cultural movement ⓘ
modernist movement ⓘ
coreIdea expressing inner feelings over depicting external reality accurately ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Germany ⓘ
declinePeriod after World War I ⓘ
hasCharacteristic anti-academic stance ⓘ
bold brushwork ⓘ
distortion of form ⓘ
emphasis on emotional experience ⓘ
exaggerated color ⓘ
inner experience over external reality ⓘ
intense psychological content ⓘ
rejection of naturalism ⓘ
subjective representation of reality ⓘ
hasPart Abstract expressionism ⓘ
surface form: Abstract Expressionism

Expressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Austrian Expressionism

Der Blaue Reiter ⓘ
Die Brücke ⓘ
Expressionist architecture ⓘ
Expressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Expressionist cinema

Expressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Expressionist literature

Neo-Expressionism ⓘ
influenced Abstract expressionism ⓘ
surface form: Abstract Expressionism

Expressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: German Expressionist cinema

Neo-Expressionism ⓘ
film noir aesthetics ⓘ
graphic novels and comics ⓘ
influencedBy Edvard Munch ⓘ
Fauvism ⓘ
James Ensor ⓘ
Post-Impressionism ⓘ
Symbolism ⓘ
Vincent van Gogh ⓘ
industrialization ⓘ
psychology of Sigmund Freud ⓘ
social anxiety before World War I ⓘ
urbanization ⓘ
language primarily German ⓘ
movementIn architecture ⓘ
film ⓘ
literature ⓘ
music ⓘ
theatre ⓘ
visual arts ⓘ
notableProponent August Macke ⓘ
Egon Schiele ⓘ
Emil Nolde ⓘ
Erich Heckel ⓘ
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ⓘ
Franz Marc ⓘ
Gabriele Münter ⓘ
George Grosz ⓘ
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff ⓘ
Lyonel Feininger ⓘ
Max Beckmann ⓘ
Oskar Kokoschka ⓘ
Otto Dix ⓘ
Paul Klee ⓘ
Wassily Kandinsky ⓘ
notableWork Blue Horse I ⓘ
Self-Portrait with Physalis ⓘ
Street, Berlin ⓘ
Blue Horse I ⓘ
surface form: The Large Blue Horses

The Night ⓘ
The Scream ⓘ
opposedTo Impressionism ⓘ
Naturalism ⓘ
Realism ⓘ
peakPeriod circa 1905–1920 ⓘ
persecutedAs degenerate art ⓘ
politicalContext Weimar Republic ⓘ
rise of Nazism ⓘ
relatedMovement Cubism ⓘ
Dada ⓘ
Fauvism ⓘ
Surrealism ⓘ
Symbolism ⓘ
revival Neo-Expressionism in the late 20th century ⓘ
startTime early 20th century ⓘ
typicalSubject existential anxiety ⓘ
inner turmoil ⓘ
religious themes ⓘ
urban alienation ⓘ
war and violence ⓘ
typicalTechnique angular forms ⓘ
impasto ⓘ
non-naturalistic color ⓘ
simplified shapes ⓘ

Referenced by (89)

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this entity surface form: Expressionist architecture
The Night → artisticStyle → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Modernism → associatedWith → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Der Blaue Reiter → genre → Expressionism ⓘ
Die Brücke → genre → Expressionism ⓘ
Self-Portrait with Physalis → genre → Expressionism ⓘ
Street, Berlin → genre → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Conrad Veidt → genreAssociatedWith → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionist cinema
Museum Gunzenhauser → hasCollection → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Städel Museum → hasCollection → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Gothic cinema → hasInfluenceFrom → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionist cinema
Symbolism → hasInfluenceOn → Expressionism ⓘ
Interwar architecture → hasMovement → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: Expressionist architecture
Modern architecture → hasMovement → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: Expressionist architecture
Expressionism → hasPart → Expressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Austrian Expressionism
Expressionism → hasPart → Expressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Expressionist cinema
Expressionism → hasPart → Expressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Expressionist literature
Street, Berlin → hasSubjectHeading → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: Expressionism (Art)
Blue Horse I → iconicFor → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
African art → influenced → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Die Brücke → influenced → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Edvard Munch → influenced → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Edvard Munch → influenced → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: Expressionist painters
El Greco → influenced → Expressionism ⓘ
Erich Heckel → influenced → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner → influenced → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Expressionism → influenced → Expressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionist cinema
Fauvism → influenced → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
James Ensor → influenced → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: Expressionist painters
Oceanic art → influenced → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Oskar Kokoschka → influenced → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: Expressionist painters
Paul Gauguin → influenced → Expressionism ⓘ
Post-Impressionism → influenced → Expressionism ⓘ
Symbolist movement in art → influenced → Expressionism ⓘ
Vincent van Gogh → influenced → Expressionism ⓘ
Action painting → influencedBy → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Brazilian modernism → influencedBy → Expressionism ⓘ
Dada → influencedBy → Expressionism ⓘ
George Grosz → influencedBy → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Lyonel Feininger → influencedBy → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Neo-Expressionism → influencedBy → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Tim Burton → influencedBy → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Burton → influencedBy → Expressionism ⓘ
subject surface form: Tim Burton
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
August Macke → movement → Expressionism ⓘ
August Macke → movement → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: Rhenish Expressionism
August Strindberg → movement → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: expressionism
Blue Horse I → movement → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Der Blaue Reiter → movement → Expressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Expressionism