Art Movements
The Art Story : Expressionism
- The Art Story : ExpressionismExpressionism emerged simultaneously in various cities across Germany as a response to a widespread anxiety about humanity's increasingly discordant relationship with the world and accompanying lost feelings of authenticity and spirituality. In part a reaction against Impressionism and academic art, Expressionism was inspired most heavily by the Symbolist currents in late nineteenth-century art
Expressionism
“Scream, The”. [Image]. In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://media1.school.eb.com.au/eb-media/32/2832-004-1D1578A0.jpg
- Britannica School : ExpressionismExpressionism, artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse within a person. The artist accomplishes this aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements
- MOMA Learning : Expressionism Extreme angles, flattened forms, garish colors, and distorted views are distinctive features of Expressionism, an international movement in art, architecture, literature, and performance that flourished between 1905 and 1920, especially in Germany and Austria. Starting in 1905, as industry grew in Europe, the Expressionists migrated to cities. There they formed groups such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) and Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), shared studios, exhibited together, and published their work and writing.
- Expressionism Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstructi Expressionism at the beginning of the twentieth century was a central and eastern European movement that brought together painters, sculptors, writers (of literature and for the theater), art critics, architects, filmmakers, engravers, and musicians. More specifically, in 1912 the magazine Der Sturm used the term expressionism to characterize the art scene of the day in contrast to impressionism.
The Private Life of a Masterpiece The Scream Munch (Expressionism)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Britannica School : Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter and printmaker who was one of the leaders of a group of Expressionist artists known as Die Brücke (“The Bridge”). His mature style was highly personal and notable for its psychological tension and eroticism.
Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl. [Image]. In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved fromhttp://media1.school.eb.com.au/eb-media/77/135377-050-EB33BEE7.jpg
