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    Expressionism is not an art that is based on reality of something but more on the emotion of the thing. E.g. there is a painting of a man sitting on a chair. But in Expressionist painting the colours, emotion and shapes would show the mans emotions

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    The Scream

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    it is composed by distortion of forms, and because of the display of strong colors and expression of feelings such as melancholic, anxiety, sadness, and erotic feelings. I don't believe that this piece of art falls in another style of art than expressionism. The creator of The Scream Edvard Munch was born in 1863, His childhood was sad and tragic because his mother died of tuberculosis when he was five years old and his father who was left in charge of him,

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    The Large Blue Horse and the Fighting Rhino and Four Horses While visibly observing both Fighting Rhino and Blue Horses, one can clearly see that both portraits of the content of the imagery consists of animals, specifically Horses. Blue Horses, depicts three vividly colored blue horses looking down in front of a landscape of rolling red hills, is characterized by its bright primary colors and a portrayal that simplicity, and a profound sense of emotion. While, Fighting Rhino and Horses consists

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    Vincent van Gogh died about 115 years ago, but his contribution to the art world impacts the way people understand persona, beauty, individuality, and style. Thousands of drawings and paintings he made depicted characteristics that most artists copy. For example, the archetypical artist persona consideration was influenced by Vincent Van Gogh. Precisely, he painted Dutch styles with dark and earthy colors in pre-1886.He adopted the brushstroke and vibrant colors of impressionists upon moving to

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    What would life be without art? What if not a single piece of art work had been made; the leaders of the art world were nonexistent. Abstract expression was completely gone, because Wassily Kandinsky never picked up a paint brush or a canvas. The world had become a dark and colorless world without the expression of art and the people. The leaders of the art world have influenced modern art today. Wassily Kandinsky the most important artist of his time because he is the innovator of abstract art which

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    and Edward Mörike, who helped define advanced, modern literature style of German-speaking Europe and reflect on the characteristics of life in Vienna during the Habsburg Empire. An Austrian painter named Egon Schiele redefines beauty during the expressionism movement. Born in June 12th, 1890 in Tuln an de Donau near Vienna, Schiele spends most of his life in Vienna and dies on October 31st, 1918. After recognition from one of his primary art schoolteachers, Schiele decided to take a formal training

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    Van Gogh reportedly never intended it to be such regardless of living in an asylum at the first time he saw the inspirational view. (The Starry Night, 2017) Among several classifications, I would describe it as representational, illusionism, and expressionism. Van Gogh painted at a time when oil paint was the main medium for paintings. (The Starry Night, 2012) He used oil paint in a way unlike famous Raphael paintings without seamless lines, but

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    Lloyd’s chapter, “The Brücke Studios: A Testing Ground for Primitivism”, in her book, German Expressionism: Primitivism and Modernity, discusses the influence of Primitivism artefacts used as decorative items and their cultural influence on the studios of the die Brücke movement. Lloyd asserts in her writings, that the work of the die Brücke were inspired by the primitivizing, bohemian interior design fashioned by the artists inside their individual studios. The non-European art that attracted the

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    Andy Warhol created irony by breaking rules, incorporating culture, and fashioning ambiguity, which was accepted by the art world. Pop Art developed as a response to Abstract Expressionism. Warhol believed that the work shaped by Abstract Expressionists, was disaffecting patrons(laymen) as it only seemed to be understood by the high art community. Alternatively, Pop Art is based on imagery of popular culture and consumerism, resulting in a larger audience to respond critically. Since there is a recurring

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    The rooms were divided not only by the art movement like Avant-guard, expressionism and abstraction but also by subjects like work and industry, Bodies, and metropolis. This made it hard to follow the flow of the art and if you were looking for a particular artist they could be in multiple areas. Ever sections did have memorable

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