Five Women on the Street

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Five Women on the Street is an expressionist painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner that depicts a group of stylized, angular women in a tense urban nighttime scene, exemplifying the psychological intensity and distorted forms of German Expressionism.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Expressionist painting ⓘ
painting ⓘ
artHistoricalSignificance important example of Kirchner’s street scenes ⓘ
key work of German Expressionism ⓘ
artStyle Expressionism ⓘ
German Expressionism ⓘ
linked to: Expressionism
colorPalette contrasting colors ⓘ
non-naturalistic colors ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Germany ⓘ
creator Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ⓘ
culturalContext early 20th-century modernism ⓘ
pre–World War I Germany ⓘ
depicts angular figures ⓘ
five women ⓘ
nighttime scene ⓘ
prostitutes ⓘ
stylized figures ⓘ
urban street ⓘ
genre street scene painting ⓘ
intendedEffect convey psychological disturbance ⓘ
evoke unease ⓘ
movement German Expressionism ⓘ
linked to: Expressionism
periodInArtistCareer Die Brücke period ⓘ
portrays psychological intensity ⓘ
tense atmosphere ⓘ
urban nightlife ⓘ
relatedWorkOfArtist Potsdamer Platz ⓘ
Street, Berlin ⓘ
subjectMatter city street ⓘ
streetwalkers ⓘ
urban crowd ⓘ
theme alienation ⓘ
anxiety ⓘ
modern urban life ⓘ
psychological tension ⓘ
sexuality ⓘ
usesVisualStyle distorted forms ⓘ
exaggerated colors ⓘ
flattened space ⓘ
sharp contours ⓘ
visualCharacteristic compressed space ⓘ
dynamic diagonals ⓘ
elongated figures ⓘ
mask-like faces ⓘ

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner → notableWork → Five Women on the Street ⓘ