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
Austrian Expressionism
linked to: Expressionism

Der Blaue Reiter
Die Brücke
Expressionist architecture
Expressionist cinema
linked to: Expressionism

Expressionist literature
linked to: Expressionism

Neo-Expressionism
influenced Abstract Expressionism
German Expressionist cinema
linked to: Expressionism

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
The Large Blue Horses
linked to: Blue Horse I

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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Post-Impressionism influenced Expressionism
Vincent van Gogh influenced Expressionism
Sydney Opera House style Expressionist architecture
linked to: Expressionism
Städel Museum hasCollection Expressionism
Modernism associatedWith Expressionism
Tim Burton influencedBy German Expressionism
linked to: Expressionism
Symbolism hasInfluenceOn Expressionism
Expressionism hasPart Austrian Expressionism
linked to: Expressionism
Expressionism hasPart Expressionist cinema
linked to: Expressionism
Expressionism hasPart Expressionist literature
linked to: Expressionism
Expressionism influenced German Expressionist cinema
linked to: Expressionism
Paul Gauguin influenced Expressionism
Fauvism influenced German Expressionism
linked to: Expressionism
Brazilian modernism influencedBy Expressionism
Weimar Republic notableCulturalMovement German Expressionism
linked to: Expressionism
Wassily Kandinsky paintings movement Expressionism
El Greco influenced Expressionism
Museum Gunzenhauser hasCollection German Expressionism
linked to: Expressionism
Paul Klee movement Expressionism
Wassily Kandinsky movement Expressionism
Neue Galerie New York specializesIn German Expressionism
linked to: Expressionism
Fritz Lang movement German Expressionism
linked to: Expressionism
Conrad Veidt genreAssociatedWith German Expressionist cinema
linked to: Expressionism
Gothic cinema hasInfluenceFrom German Expressionist cinema
linked to: Expressionism
Milwaukee Art Museum hasCollectionStrength German Expressionism
linked to: Expressionism
Erich Mendelsohn movement Expressionist architecture
linked to: Expressionism
Action painting influencedBy German Expressionism
linked to: Expressionism
Tim Burton influencedBy German Expressionism
subject linked to: Burton
linked to: Expressionism
Dada influencedBy Expressionism
Arnold Schoenberg stylePeriod Expressionism
Edvard Munch movement Expressionism
Edvard Munch influenced German Expressionism
linked to: Expressionism
Edvard Munch influenced Expressionist painters
linked to: Expressionism
Die Brücke genre Expressionism
Die Brücke movement German Expressionism
linked to: Expressionism
Die Brücke influenced German Expressionism
linked to: Expressionism
The Scream movement Expressionism
Blue Horse I movement German Expressionism
linked to: Expressionism
Blue Horse I style Expressionism
Blue Horse I iconicFor German Expressionism
linked to: Expressionism
Self-Portrait with Physalis genre Expressionism
Der Blaue Reiter movement German Expressionism
linked to: Expressionism
Der Blaue Reiter genre Expressionism
Street, Berlin genre German Expressionism
linked to: Expressionism
Street, Berlin movement Expressionism
Street, Berlin hasSubjectHeading Expressionism (Art)
linked to: Expressionism
Neo-Expressionism influencedBy German Expressionism
linked to: Expressionism
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner movement Expressionism
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner movement German Expressionism
linked to: Expressionism