Knowra Expressionism Expressionism Expressionism is a modern art movement that distorts form and intensifies color to convey subjective experience. It favors emotional impact over faithful representation.
Subjectivity : The condition of experience being shaped by a particular person's perspective, feelings, and consciousness. Expressionist artists made personal perception, rather than objective likeness, their central subject.
The Scream : A series of works by Edvard Munch depicting a figure beneath a turbulent sky. Its warped landscape and anguished figure became an enduring image of Expressionist anxiety.
Edvard Munch : A Norwegian painter whose psychologically charged images influenced modern European art. His work anticipated Expressionism's distortion of form to convey psychological states.
Impressionism : A nineteenth-century art movement concerned with transient effects of light and everyday perception. Expressionism turns away from Impressionism's observed effects toward subjective emotional force.
German Expressionist cinema : A German film movement of the 1910s and 1920s marked by stylized sets, shadows, and heightened acting. It translated Expressionist distortion and psychological tension into cinematic space.
Distortion (art) : The deliberate alteration of shapes, proportions, or perspectives in an artwork. Expressionists warped bodies and spaces to give emotion visible force.
Street, Berlin : A 1913 painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner showing figures moving through a Berlin street. Its sharp angles and compressed space turn city life into psychological tension.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner : A German painter and printmaker who co-founded the artists' group Die Brücke. His angular figures and scenes of urban life exemplify German Expressionist painting.
Post-Impressionism : A diverse movement that extended Impressionism while emphasizing structure, symbolism, or personal expression. Its artists helped establish the formal experiments that Expressionists intensified.
Expressionist architecture : An early twentieth-century architectural movement favoring sculptural, dynamic forms over conventional geometry. Architects adapted Expressionism's emphasis on emotional impact to buildings and spaces.
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