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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Helene Schjerfbeck movement Expressionism
Helene Schjerfbeck artisticStyle Expressionism
this entity surface form: expressionism
Ion Țuculescu movement Expressionism
Paula Modersohn-Becker movement Expressionism
Paula Modersohn-Becker movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: early Expressionism
Jens Ferdinand Willumsen movement Expressionism
Jens Ferdinand Willumsen influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: Expressionist movement
Improvisations hasArtisticStyle Expressionism
Impressions movement Expressionism
Jules Pascin movement Expressionism
Western art includesStylePeriod Expressionism
Rationalism in architecture contrastsWith Expressionism
this entity surface form: Expressionism in architecture
Jack Butler Yeats movement Expressionism
Passion Façade architecturalStyle Expressionism
this entity surface form: Expressionist architecture
Mendelsohn movement Expressionism
subject surface form: Erich Mendelsohn
Mendelsohn genre Expressionism
subject surface form: Erich Mendelsohn
this entity surface form: Expressionist architecture
Mendelsohn influencedBy Expressionism
subject surface form: Erich Mendelsohn
this entity surface form: Expressionist art
Einstein Tower architecturalStyle Expressionism
Hat Factory Luckenwalde associatedWith Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
David Slivka movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: expressionism
Zora Petrović movement Expressionism
Danish experimental group Høst influencedBy Expressionism
subject surface form: Høst
this entity surface form: expressionism
Asger Jorn influencedBy Expressionism
Clifton Pugh movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: expressionism
Clifton Pugh influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Merzbau influencedBy Expressionism
Marcel Janco movement Expressionism
David Bomberg movement Expressionism
Pierrot Lunaire style Expressionism
Synthetist painters influenced Expressionism
Berlin Secession movement Expressionism
Arnold Zweig movement Expressionism
neo-Romanticism relatedTo Expressionism
subject surface form: Neo-Romanticism
Franz Werfel movement Expressionism
Marianne von Werefkin movement Expressionism
Neue Wilde influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Kirchner movement Expressionism
subject surface form: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Self-Portrait as a Soldier genre Expressionism
Five Women on the Street movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Five Women on the Street artStyle Expressionism
Five Women on the Street artStyle Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Bathers at Moritzburg genre Expressionism
Bathers at Moritzburg movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Fate of the Animals movement Expressionism
Fate of the Animals associatedWith Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
The Yellow Cow genre Expressionism
The Yellow Cow movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Maria Marc movement Expressionism
The Prophet (1912 woodcut) genre Expressionism