Expressionism

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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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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

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Garden of Love II movement Expressionism
The Resurrection movement Expressionism
subject surface form: The Resurrection (painting)
The Resurrection movement Expressionism
subject surface form: Georges Rouault
Georg Trakl movement Expressionism
Alfred Döblin movement Expressionism
Ernst Toller movement Expressionism
Otto Mueller movement Expressionism
Heinrich Campendonk movement Expressionism
Picasso works movement Expressionism
Picasso's early Paris years movement Expressionism
Lynd Ward movement Expressionism
Barlach movement Expressionism
subject surface form: Ernst Barlach
Die Zwitscher-Maschine movement Expressionism
Ellen Thesleff movement Expressionism
Tyko Sallinen movement Expressionism
German Expressionists movement Expressionism
The Beef Carcass movement Expressionism
The Little Pastry Cook movement Expressionism
Portrait of a Cook movement Expressionism
The Choir Boy movement Expressionism
Paula Becker movement Expressionism
Haim Sutin movement Expressionism
Constant Permeke movement Expressionism
Austrian literature movement Expressionism
Alice Neel movement Expressionism
Souza Cardoso movement Expressionism
subject surface form: Amadeo de Souza Cardoso
Louis Maqhubela movement Expressionism
Heinrich Lersch movement Expressionism
Emma Maria Cordsen movement Expressionism
Hans Kaltneker movement Expressionism
Pericle Fazzini movement Expressionism
Ernst Barlach movement Expressionism
José Gutiérrez Solana movement Expressionism
The Singing Horseman movement Expressionism
The Circus movement Expressionism
The Funeral of Harry Boland movement Expressionism
Josep Maria Subirachs movement Expressionism