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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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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El hombre de fuego artStyle Expressionism
José Clemente Orozco style Expressionism
this entity surface form: expressionism
Orozco murals artisticStyle Expressionism
Improvisation 19 influencedBy Expressionism
Improvisation 19 movement Expressionism
subject surface form: Wassily Kandinsky
Improvisation 35 (Center) movement Expressionism
Composition IV movement Expressionism
Composition VI movement Expressionism
Improvisation 7 movement Expressionism
Improvisation 11 influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: expressionism
Clara Westhoff movement Expressionism
Matthias Grünewald influenced Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Improvisation 3 movement Expressionism
Weimar culture influencedBy Expressionism
Weimar culture associatedWithMovement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Amsterdam School architecturalStyle Expressionism
this entity surface form: Expressionist architecture
Amsterdam School influencedBy Expressionism
Metropolis filmMovement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Blind Man's Meal artStyle Expressionism
The Greek influenced Expressionism
Museum Ludwig hasNotableCollection Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Negro Period relatedTo Expressionism
Grebo masks influenced Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Max Ernst influencedBy Expressionism
Albertinum hasCollectionStrength Expressionism
Hans Arp influencedBy Expressionism
Twittering Machine movement Expressionism
Senecio movement Expressionism
Senecio creatorMovement Expressionism
Castle and Sun movement Expressionism
Castle and Sun influencedBy Expressionism
Ad Parnassum movement Expressionism
Angelus Novus movement Expressionism
New Gallery associatedArtMovement Expressionism
Alban Berg movement Expressionism
Curt Courant movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Isenheim Altarpiece influenced Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Chaim Soutine movement Expressionism
Chaim Soutine influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: French Expressionism
Käthe Kollwitz movement Expressionism
Sergey Konenkov movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: expressionism
Nicolae Tonitza movement Expressionism
Johan Thorn Prikker movement Expressionism
Serge Sabarsky fieldOfWork Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Serge Sabarsky movement Expressionism