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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Woman with a Bag movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Woman with a Bag movement Expressionism
subject surface form: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
The Reader movement Expressionism
The Reader artisticStyle Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
The Red House movement Expressionism
The Red House artisticStyle Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Brücke-Museum, Berlin collectionFocus Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Brücke-Museum, Berlin associatedArtMovement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Lady in a Green Jacket movement Expressionism
Lady in a Green Jacket artMovement Expressionism
Promenade movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Turkish Café movement Expressionism
Girls under Trees movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Tightrope Walker movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Tightrope Walker artisticStyle Expressionism
Colored Composition movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Colored Composition artisticStyle Expressionism
Children at the Fair movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Children at the Fair artisticStyle Expressionism
Woman with Umbrella in Front of a Hat Shop movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Garden Restaurant movement Expressionism
Garden Restaurant creatorMovement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
People by the Blue Lake movement Expressionism
People by the Blue Lake artStyle Expressionism
People by the Blue Lake influencedByMovement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Strollers at the Lake II movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Woman in a Green Jacket (watercolor) creatorMovement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
View into a Lane movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
View into a Lane hasStyle Expressionism
Seated Nude with Cushions movement Expressionism
Still Life with Apples movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Tunisian Garden movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
Tunisian Garden creatorMovement Expressionism
this entity surface form: German Expressionism
John Rädecker movement Expressionism
Fritz Bleyl movement Expressionism
The Intrigue genre Expressionism
The Intrigue movement Expressionism
Self-Portrait with Masks movement Expressionism
The Baths at Ostend movement Expressionism
The Lamp Boy movement Expressionism
Raoul Hausmann influencedBy Expressionism
H. Leivick influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: European expressionism