EXPRESSIONISM

Expression is the action of making known ones's thoughts or feelings.

HISTORY

This movement started around 1905 -1925. So expressionism was a term used to indicate or show the use distortion and exaggeration for emotional effect or look and feel. So in other wards, artists here did not depict objects the way they were but what they thought or felt according to them emotionally (Administration, 2017).
There was judgment of work since artists at this era made paintings from there emotional points of view instead from what they saw physically. This made their paintings become more of the artist's character expressed with feelings rather than analyzing compositions (The Art Story, 2017).

There were two manifestos and these were:

1. Die Brucke

This was a German expressionism formed in Dresden around 1905 (Art Story, 2017). So their paintings were more of figurative distortions, they also worked directly on the image and chose color according to the mood they were in and lastly worked aggressive on the brush strokes whilst using un naturalistic colors to the canvas .

2. Der Blaue Reiter

This started from Munich in German as an abstract counterpart to Die Brucke's distorted figurative style. His paintings were mainly focusing on the idea that color and form had concrete spiritual values. So he also had a paintings that expressed the way felt and saw music hence showing his unique approach to form (The Art Story, 2017).

"THE SCREAM" BY EDVARD MUNCH, 1893 

This is a painting done by Munch called "The Scream." When you look at the painting, it shows his emotions in a way that you see an alien like person terrified and screaming on the bridge. The painting is also exaggerated in way of his style of drawing whereby  it involves swirls especially as seen in the sky and the water.

Modern painting.

Painting by Ford Smith 2010-2016

The painting above is done by Ford smith. In this painting , you can see that he is inspired by the expressionism movement expressing the the tree leaves in a circular form, and also the handling brush strokes in the sky in whilst form. The colors of his painting done depending on his mood hence this being a modern painting of expressionism.

Sources

Administration, 2017. Art movements. Online.Available at:

http://www.artmovements.co.uk/expressionism.htm

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The Art Story, 2017. The Art Story: Expressionsm. Online.Available at:

http://www.theartstory.org/movement-expressionism.htm

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The Art Story, 2017. The Art Story: Der Blaue Reiter. Online.Available at:

http://www.theartstory.org/movement-der-blaue-reiter.htm

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The Art Story, 2017. The Art Story: Der Blaue Reiter. Online.Available at:

http://www.harmonyangels.com/Expressionism.html

Accessed on: 06/04/2017