Expressionism

to initiate a specific emotional response. They are not created to be analyzed as being apart of reality. However, expressionism is not a subset of complete fantasy, it is a distilled form of reality in which an artist or author can focus specifically on an event, person or group of people and the subsequent inner reaction he or she wants to make aware to the audience. Expressionism can be found throughout literature, art and theater, therefore it is not difficult to exhibit similar reactions found

cultural trait is common to both popular and folk culture. Expressionism, the idea of using simplified shapes and distortion of physical features, has considerably influenced modern art practices. Oceanic art is a widespread part of traditional South Pacific Islander culture, and also distorts human features. Expressionism and Oceanic art share many aspects of style, but differ greatly in aspects of origin, diffusion, and purpose. Expressionism Artists in the early 1900s commonly utilized techniques

abstract expressionism It was a full 170 years after Americans had their political revolution that they won an aesthetic revolution. American art to get rid of its inhibiting mechanisms- provincialism, over-dependence on European sources, and an indifferent public- and liberate itself into a quality and expressive force equal to, or exceeding that of art produced anywhere within the period. Few would argue that the painting and sculpture that emerged from the so-called New York School in the

Abstract Expressionism is making its comeback within the art world. Coined as an artist movement in the 1940’s and 1950’s, at the New York School, American Abstract Expressionist began to express many ideas relevant to humanity and the world around human civilization. However, the subject matters, contributing to artists, were not meant to represent the ever-changing world around them. Rather, how the world around them affected the artist themselves. The works swayed by such worldly influences

Expressionist films, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) remains one of the most influential films of both German cinema and the silent film era. The iconic visual style of Caligari embodies the element of revolt that is accepted to be the basis of Expressionism, which is defined as “a ‘total revolt against the existing order’ both in terms of style and idea, society and the individual, art and ethics” (Barlow 18). Caligari makes use of the mise-en-scène in order to overcome the restrictions of black and

his more iconic works. Starting first in art with the likes of Edvard Munch who became famous for his use of distortion and abstraction to portray and evoke emotion, the movement then found prominence in the German film industry. Before German Expressionism came about art relied heavily on reality, most art being an attempt to recreate what was exactly as it was seen, and expressionist movement was a response to this classical ideal; a rebellion or a rebuttal to the norm. It goes beyond what the eye

Looking like a scene out of a horror movie, The Scream is one of the most famous Expressionist paintings in the world. During the end of the nineteenth century, Expressionism arose as an art movement, wherein poets and artists began to use their works to express their inner feelings and emotions (Wolf). One of the influential expressionists at that period was Edvard Munch, who was a Norwegian artist and who painted The Scream in four distinct versions, from tempera to pastel to crayon (Shabi). After

German Expressionism was a film movement that emphasized character emotions and thoughts through the extravagant use of cinematic devices, particularly mise-en-scene and the narrative. These films are most notable for their dark themes relating to death, fatality, insanity and horror. The films aim to elicit an emotional response from the viewer, on the whole to shock, disgust and repel. Robert Wiene directed The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in 1920 and it is considered one of the most influential films

Abstract expressionism, was a movement in American painting that flourished in the 1940s and 1950s, often referred to as the New York School or as Action Painting. Abstract expressionism according to Katy Siegel was a “creative earthquake that altered the landscape of modern art”. This movement had been considered as especially ‘American’ in style, this was because of its attention to the physical adjacency of paint. It had allowed artists to break away from accepted conventions in both technique

Abstract Expressionism "New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements ... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture." Jackson Pollock Rarely has such a massive transfer of influence has ever touched the world as did in the Paris to New York shift of the 1940's and 1950's. All of the characters of American art were