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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Friedensreich Hundertwasser movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: expressionism
Maria Lassnig movement Expressionism
this entity surface form: expressionism
Johannes Itten movement Expressionism
Gerhard Marcks movement Expressionism
Georgian avant-garde circle influencedBy Expressionism
this entity surface form: expressionism
Kees movement Expressionism
subject surface form: Kees van Dongen
Moishe Shagal movement Expressionism
The Fiddler movement Expressionism
White Crucifixion movement Expressionism
The Green Violinist movement Expressionism
Jerusalem Windows movement Expressionism
Marc Chagall murals movement Expressionism
Der Turm movement Expressionism
Study for a Portrait movement Expressionism
Study for a Self-Portrait movement Expressionism
Kurt Wolff Verlag movement Expressionism
Leon Golub movement Expressionism
Nu couché movement Expressionism
Portrait of Pablo Picasso movement Expressionism
Portrait of Chaim Soutine movement Expressionism
Joachim Ringelnatz movement Expressionism
Livets dans movement Expressionism
The Kiss (woodcut) movement Expressionism
Hyman Bloom movement Expressionism
Karl Zerbe movement Expressionism
The Dead Mother movement Expressionism
Mother with her Dead Son movement Expressionism
Lovis Corinth movement Expressionism
Miserere et Guerre (print series) movement Expressionism
subject surface form: Miserere et Guerre
Les Juges (The Judges) movement Expressionism
subject surface form: Les Juges
Clowns (series) movement Expressionism
O homem amarelo movement Expressionism
Georg Ehrenfried Groß movement Expressionism
Richard Gerstl movement Expressionism
Johannes R. Becher movement Expressionism
Renato Guttuso movement Expressionism
Aligi Sassu movement Expressionism
Gelb‑Rot‑Blau movement Expressionism
Komposition VII movement Expressionism
Composition X (final work in Kandinsky’s Composition series) movement Expressionism
subject surface form: Composition X
Omniscience movement Expressionism
Albin Egger-Lienz movement Expressionism
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz movement Expressionism