Expressionism:
Expressionism was an art movement that originated in Germany from the 1890's-1930's, it was a Modernism movement that initially focused on poetry and painting. After the First World War expressionism grew to encapsulate most of the arts, such as: literature, dance, theatre, film, architecture and music.
In 1905 a four man group of German artists formed “The Bridge” in the city Dresden, it was made up of Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff; this was arguably the start of German Expressionism although the four did not use the term.
Then
again in 1911 another group of younger artists called themselves “The Blue
Rider”, up until 1913 the group didn’t officially use the term expressionism.
Artwork that was produced with expressionism in mind was always created from a subjective perspective that would express meaning or emotional experience. Expressionism has been seen as a response or reaction to Positivism and other art movements like: naturalism or impressionism.
There
has been debate as to what expressionism is, due to its overlapping of various
main art movements, but one phrase that describes it well is, “artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not
objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects
and events arouse within a person”.
I
took an immediate liking to this art style due to the largely free style of the
works that I have seen, all of the artists’ works give an exceptional show of
emotion and feeling, the main complimentary feature of the works being the
somewhat abstract colouring used, as well as the mostly twisted visualisation of
their own world.
Historical Information; Wikipedia's page on Expressionism. (n.d.). Retrieved from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionism
Quotes from; Wikipedia's page on Expressionism. (n.d.). Retrieved from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionism
Pictures from; Wikipedia's page on Expressionism. (n.d). and Osnat Fine Art website. (n.d.). Retrieved from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionism
http://www.osnatfineart.com/expressionism.jsp
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