Expressionism
Is a German modernistic art movement started in the early 20th century,
came into being when they got more concerned with expressing their feelings on an occurrence or object than with creating a photo realistic painting
They used very exaggerated colours, aggressive brush strokes and distortion to paint, to evoke emotion to the viewers and disrupt the mood of people who are receiving the painting.
They sought to show the meaning of emotional experience on to the viewer rather than the physical and real world.
Their goal was to evokethe subjectivity responses that the artist has to objects and events.
This movement came about from a reaction to society values that continued at the turn of the 20th ceentury, no of them were painting the traditional adademic style of art - they felt that it was time for change.
They became the avant garde movement for all non-traditional artists
Expressionism was a very personal movemnent, that was more spiritually than alot of art movements at the time.
Die Brucke - (The Bridge)
the fountainhead of German expressionism
They drew inspiration from Freidrich Nietzsche - Nylonism - believing your going to die anyway, but you must be your best to trancend into the greater you.
Their work some elements of primitivism - because to the europeans, this was taboo or was regarded as bad. Their view on it was because it was more natural and truthful to themselves than the europeans who want to believe in their perfect lie and discarding the truth.
they exploited the primitive art style to gain attention from the masses.
Der Blaue Reiter (The blue writer)
This was the spirituality of art.
their beliefs were structured around the idea of colour and form carried concrete spiritual values.
They mis-matched colours on objects because the colours carried certain moods to them. soo if an apple was painted blue it would mean the the painter was feeling a certain was cause blue represented a certain spiritual value
Bibliography
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/expressionism.htm
Class Notes
This movement came about from a reaction to society values that continued at the turn of the 20th ceentury, no of them were painting the traditional adademic style of art - they felt that it was time for change.
They became the avant garde movement for all non-traditional artists
Expressionism was a very personal movemnent, that was more spiritually than alot of art movements at the time.
Die Brucke - (The Bridge)
the fountainhead of German expressionism
They drew inspiration from Freidrich Nietzsche - Nylonism - believing your going to die anyway, but you must be your best to trancend into the greater you.
Their work some elements of primitivism - because to the europeans, this was taboo or was regarded as bad. Their view on it was because it was more natural and truthful to themselves than the europeans who want to believe in their perfect lie and discarding the truth.
they exploited the primitive art style to gain attention from the masses.
Der Blaue Reiter (The blue writer)
This was the spirituality of art.
their beliefs were structured around the idea of colour and form carried concrete spiritual values.
They mis-matched colours on objects because the colours carried certain moods to them. soo if an apple was painted blue it would mean the the painter was feeling a certain was cause blue represented a certain spiritual value
Bibliography
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/expressionism.htm
Class Notes
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