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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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner influenced Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
The Night movement Expressionism
The Night artisticStyle Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Franz Marc movement Expressionism
Franz Marc movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Emil Nolde movement Expressionism
Emil Nolde movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Egon Schiele movement Expressionism
Oskar Kokoschka movement Expressionism
Oskar Kokoschka movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Oskar Kokoschka influenced Expressionism
this entity surface form: Expressionist painters
Symbolist movement in art influenced Expressionism
Max Beckmann movement Expressionism
George Grosz movement Expressionism
George Grosz influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Otto Dix movement Expressionism
Erich Heckel movement Expressionism
Erich Heckel influenced Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff movement Expressionism
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
August Macke movement Expressionism
August Macke movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: Rhenish Expressionism
Gabriele Münter movement Expressionism
Gabriele Münter movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
First Presbyterian Church, Stamford, Connecticut architecturalStyle Expressionism
this entity surface form: Expressionist architecture
James Ensor movement Expressionism
James Ensor movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: Proto-Expressionism
James Ensor influenced Expressionism
this entity surface form: Expressionist painters
Lyonel Feininger movement Expressionism
Lyonel Feininger influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Modern architecture hasMovement Expressionism
this entity surface form: Expressionist architecture
Interwar architecture hasMovement Expressionism
this entity surface form: Expressionist architecture
Neue Nationalgalerie collectionIncludes Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
African art influenced Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Oceanic art influenced Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Abstract art relatedTo Expressionism
this entity surface form: expressionism
Lado Gudiashvili movement Expressionism
Kees van Dongen movement Expressionism
August Strindberg movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: expressionism
The Metamorphosis literaryMovement Expressionism
Francis Bacon movement Expressionism
Notre-Dame du Raincy architecturalStyle Expressionism
this entity surface form: Expressionist architecture
Gerd Arntz influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Georg Baselitz movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism (influenced by)
Georg Baselitz influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Marlene Dumas movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: expressionism
Peter Doig influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Markus Lüpertz influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Honoré Daumier influenced Expressionism
Lotus Temple architecturalStyle Expressionism
this entity surface form: Expressionist architecture