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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Sea and Sun (1910) genre Expressionism
Sea and Sun (1910) movement Expressionism
Unpainted Pictures series movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Ada Vilstrup movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: Expressionism (through association with Emil Nolde)
Nolde Museum Seebüll associatedWithMovement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Gerti Schiele movementModeledIn Expressionism
Gerti Schiele movement Expressionism
subject surface form: Egon Schiele
The Embrace movement Expressionism
Death and the Maiden movement Expressionism
Seated Woman with Bent Knee genre Expressionism
Seated Woman with Bent Knee movement Expressionism
Portrait of Wally genre Expressionism
Portrait of Wally movement Expressionism
Four Trees movement Expressionism
Four Trees artStyle Expressionism
Beckmann movement Expressionism
subject surface form: Max Beckmann
The Triptych of Departure movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
The Triptych of Departure artStyle Expressionism
The Triptych of Departure creatorMovement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
The Actors artStyle Expressionism
The Actors creatorMovement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
The Synagogue movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
The Synagogue artisticStyle Expressionism
The Descent from the Cross genre Expressionism
The Descent from the Cross movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
The Descent from the Cross influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Minna Beckmann-Tube movement Expressionism
The Madonna movement Expressionism
Ashes movement Expressionism
The Sun movement Expressionism
subject surface form: The Sun (painting)
Cuno Amiet movement Expressionism
Nudes in nature movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Nudes in nature artisticStyle Expressionism
The Bridge movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
The Bridge genre Expressionism
Blue Horse II movement Expressionism
Blue Horse II creatorAssociatedMovement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
The Large Blue Horses genre Expressionism
The Large Blue Horses movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Albert Bloch artisticStyle Expressionism
Rembrandt’s late works influenced Expressionism
The Bride of the Wind genre Expressionism
The Bride of the Wind movement Expressionism
The Tempest movement Expressionism
subject surface form: The Tempest (painting)
The Tempest hasArtisticStyle Expressionism
subject surface form: The Tempest (painting)
Murderer, Hope of Women genre Expressionism