EXPRESSIONISM

1905-1940s

1905-1940s Center: Germany overlapped with other major 'isms' of the

modernist period: with Futurism, Vorticism, Cubism, Surrealism and Dadaism

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

inspired by Symbolists

EXPRESSIONISM

Expressionisma style in which the intention is not to

reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to express the inner state of the artist

Expressionist artists- rejected the ideology of realism.- sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality

“To evoke the subjective responses that the

artist has to objects or events.”

Contrasted with Impressionism- sought to capture the outward impression of an object or scene.

Expressionism did not attempt a realistic portrayal of the world, but rather the extreme and distorting emotions that the world causes in the sensitive individual.

Goal of Expressionism:

Portrait ofPope Innocent Xby Diego Velasquez

Study After Velasquez’ s

Portrait of Pope Innocent X

by Francis Bacon(1953)

Artists

Edvard MunchDec. 12, 1863- January 23, 1944

“No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and

suffer and love.”

“For as long as I can remember I have suffered

from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried

to express in my art.”

self-portrait of

Edvard Munch

“Art is the opposite of Nature. A work of art can only come from inside a person. Art is the shape of the picture fashioned

through the nerves, heart, brain and eye

of a man.”

The SickChild1896

The Scream1893

Madonna1894-1895

Puberty1894-1895

Anxiety1894

Jealousy1895

Melancholy1894

Ashes1894

Death in the Sick Chamber

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

"A painter paints the appearance of things,

not their objective correctness, in fact he

creates new appearances of things.“

"My paintings are allegories not portraits."

 Die Brücke (The Bridge)

Self-portrait with Pipe, 1905

Nude Dancers, 1909

Marzella 1909-1910

Munch’s Puberty

Deutsch: Nollendorfplatz1912

Street Berlin, 1913

Self Portrait as a Soldier 1915

Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with a Bandaged Ear

Wassily Kandinsky

“Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a

heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet.

This last is essential.“

"Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many

strings. The artist is the hand which plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations

in the soul

Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)

Der Blaue Reiter

(The Blue Rider) 1903

Composition VII, 1913

Composition X, 1939

Composition VII, 1923

Influence in Other Art forms

Music

MUSICArnold Schoenberg

• Leader of Second Viennese School

• Known for Atonality and Twelve Tone Technique of composition

• Students: Anton Webern and Alban Berg

• Compositions: Fünf Orchesterstücke, Op. 16 (1909), Erwartung, Op. 17 (1909), Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 (1912)

Anton Webern Alban Berg

Glass Pavillion

Einstein Tower

ARCHITECTURE

MOVIE

“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ”, 1920

-short horror film directed by Robert Wiene

-Used stylized sets, abstract jagged buildings painted in background

-actor used an unrealistic style that exhibited dancelike movements