o first surfaced in the art literature of the early twentieth century
o intense colour, agitated brushstrokes, and disjointed space.
o Expressionism is an artistic style in which the artist attempts to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in him.
o He accomplishes his aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements.
o In a broader sense Expressionism is one of the main currents of art in the later 19th and the 20th centuries, and its qualities of highly subjective, personal, spontaneous self-expression are typical of a wide range of modern artists and art movements.
o its goals to strongly impose the artist's own sensibility to the world's representation.
o The expressionist artist substitutes to the visual object reality his own image of this object, which he feels as an accurate representation of its real meaning.
o The search of harmony and forms is not as important as trying to achieve the highest expression intensity, both from the aesthetic point of view and according to idea and human critics.
o As an international movement, expressionism has also been thought of as inheriting from certain medieval art forms and, more directly, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh and the fauvism movement.
o The most well known German expressionists are Max Beckman, Otto Dix, Lionel Feininger, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein; the Austrian Oskar Kokoschka, the Czech Alfred Kubin and the Norvegian Edvard Munch are also related to this movement.
o During his stay in Germany, the Russian Kandinsky was also an expressionism addict.
Franz Marc
"The Large Blue Horses"
1911
Oil on canvas, 102 X 160
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