History of art picks: Expressionism
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In today's post we are exploring the art movement of Expressionism!
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. In general, expressionist artists have sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality.
Expressionism developed as an avant-garde style before the First World War. It remained popular during the Weimar Rebublic, particularly in Berlin. The style extended to a wide range of arts, including expressionist architecture, painting, literature, theatre, dance, film and music. Paris also became a gathering place for a group of Expressionist artists. After World War II, figurative expressionism influenced artists and styles around the world.
While the word expressionist was used in the modern sense as early as 1850, its origin is sometims traced to paintings exhibited in 1901 in Paris by obscure artist Julien-Auguste Hervé which he called Expressionismes. An alternative view is that the term was coined by the Czech art historian Antonin Matějček in 1910 as the opposite of Impressionism: An Expressionist wishes above all, to express himself (an Expressionist rejects) immediate perception and builds on more complex psychic structures... Impressions and mental images that pass through... people's soul as through a filter which rids them of all substantial accretions to produce their clear essence... [...and] are assimilated and condensed into more geenral forms, into types, which he transcribes through simple short-hand formulae and symbols.
Expressionism is notoriously difficult to define, in part because it "overlapped with other major "isms" of the modernist period: with Futurism, Vorticism, Cubism, Surrealism and Dadaism. What can be said however, is that it was a movement that developed in the early twentieth century, mainly in Germany, in reaction to the dehumanizing effect of industrialization and the growth of cities, and that "one of the central means by which expressionism identifies itself as an avant-garde movement, and by which marks its distance to traditions and the cultural institution as a whole is through its relationship to realism and the dominant conventions of representation. More explicitly, that the expressionists rejected the ideology of realism.
Some notable expressionists:Sidney Nolan, Egon Schiele, Bernard Buffet, Max Beckmann, George Grosz, George Bouzianis, Mathias Goeritz, Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Wassily Kandinsky, Romero de Torres, John Walker, Elaine de Kooning, Franz Marc.
Thank you for reading until here! Expressionism is a quite known art movement is the art world and I thought it would be a good idea to wrap it up for you. I hope you found it as interesting as I did!
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