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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The Sick Child genre Expressionism
The Sick Child movement Expressionism
The Dance of Life movement Expressionism
Anxiety movement Expressionism
Dark City influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
New York School influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Russian Futurism relatedMovement Expressionism
Woman in Blue artisticMovement Expressionism
The Girls on the Bridge genre Expressionism
The Girls on the Bridge movement Expressionism
Death in the Sickroom movement Expressionism
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Munich influenced Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Maurice de Vlaminck movement Expressionism
Gustav Vigeland movement Expressionism
The Wheel of Life hasArtisticMovement Expressionism
Georges Rouault movement Expressionism
Georges Rouault associatedWith Expressionism
this entity surface form: French Expressionism
European avant-garde includesMovement Expressionism
Anita Malfatti influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Di Cavalcanti (painter) influencedBy Expressionism
subject surface form: Di Cavalcanti
Iberê Camargo movement Expressionism
Herman Hesse movement Expressionism
subject surface form: Hermann Hesse
this entity surface form: expressionism
Modern art hasMovement Expressionism
Composition VII movement Expressionism
Composition VIII movement Expressionism
Composition II movement Expressionism
Composition III movement Expressionism
Composition V movement Expressionism
Composition IX movement Expressionism
Several Circles movement Expressionism
Yellow‑Red‑Blue movement Expressionism
Black Lines movement Expressionism
On White II movement Expressionism
On White II creatorMovement Expressionism
Small Pleasures movement Expressionism
Black and Violet movement Expressionism
Dominant Curve movement Expressionism
Dominant Curve movement Expressionism
subject surface form: Wassily Kandinsky
Painting with White Border movement Expressionism
Kunsthalle Emden hasCollection Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
New Objectivity follows Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
New Objectivity opposedTo Expressionism
Baal movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Baal influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: expressionism
Drums in the Night genre Expressionism
this entity surface form: expressionism