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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Murderer, Hope of Women movement Expressionism
Der Sturm movement Expressionism
Münter movement Expressionism
subject surface form: Gabriele Münter
Breakfast of the Birds movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
View from the Griesbräu movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
View from the Griesbräu movement Expressionism
Still Life with Jug and African Sculpture movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Murnau am Staffelsee associatedWith Expressionism
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto movement Expressionism
subject surface form: Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix
Antoine Bourdelle movement Expressionism
Gelmeroda series movement Expressionism
Gelmeroda series influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Church of the Minorites II movement Expressionism
subject surface form: Lyonel Feininger
Edith Harms movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: Expressionism (through association with Egon Schiele)
Cassiano Branco movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: Expressionism in architecture
Alexej von Jawlensky movement Expressionism
Emil Hansen movement Expressionism
Emil Hansen movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Emil Hansen influenced Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Max Pechstein movement Expressionism
Golem literaryMovement Expressionism
The Funeral (Dedicated to Oskar Panizza) movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
The Trench movement Expressionism
War (triptych) movement Expressionism
The Skat Players movement Expressionism
Bruno Taut movement Expressionism
Heckel movement Expressionism
subject surface form: Erich Heckel
Roquairol movement Expressionism
Roquairol influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Männerbildnis (Self-Portrait) 1919 movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Fränzi reclining movement Expressionism
Weisses Haus in Dangast movement Expressionism
Weisses Haus in Dangast artisticStyle Expressionism
Gläserner Tag movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Self-Portrait with Monocle movement Expressionism
Self-Portrait with Monocle artStyle Expressionism
Self-Portrait with Monocle artStyle Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Houses at Night movement Expressionism
Houses at Night artisticStyle Expressionism
Christ and the Sinner genre Expressionism
Christ and the Sinner movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Woman with a Bag genre Expressionism