This is a thirty minute, highly expressionist work in which atonal music accompanies a musical drama centered around a nameless woman. Having stumbled through a disturbing forest, trying to find her lover, she reaches open countryside.
German Expressionist Painter and one of the founding member of the Dresden based artists called Die Brücke ("The Bridge") ...
The Spirit of Expressionist Art
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
Davos under Snow (oil on canvas, 1923)
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Painters, sculptors and printmakers labelled as degenerate, included numerous highly distinguished Expressionist painters, and Cubist painters from Germany, Austria, Russia, France and Holland.
Expressionism first appeared in the art literature of the 20th century, and with regards to art, the expressionist style utilizes intense color, disjointed spaces, and agitated brushstrokes.
expressionistic - A characteristic of some art, generally since the mid-19th century, leaning toward the expression of emotion over objective description.
Expressionist poetry, which arose at the same time as its dramatic counterpart, was similarly nonreferential and sought an ecstatic, hymnlike lyricism that would have considerable associative power.
The Expressionists felt compelled to use the power of expressionism to address the human condition as they saw it, exploring themes such as poverty, corruption, loneliness and sorrow.
Expressionistic Movements
(Late 19th - Early 20th Century)
Expressionism developed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Expressionist painters explored the bold use of paint surface, drawing distortions and exaggerations, and intense color.
Expressionist abstract painters like Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline or Wols represent the opposite of geometric abstract art.
Neo-Expressionist paintings themselves, though diverse in appearance, presented certain common traits.
Neo-Expressionist paintings were characterized by a rough, violent approach and the return to more conventional formats such as easel paintings. Quite often, Neo-Expressionist works contained the human figure but also were sometimes abstract.
German expressionist art movement, founded by Kirchner, Schmidt-Rottluff, and Heckel, lasting from 1905 to 1913.
Leading Expressionists included Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, George Grosz and Amadeo Modigliani.
Another expressionist group called Der Blaue Reiter and led by Wassily Kandinsky was formed a short while later is discussed fully on a separate page.
Abstract expressionist paintings may look random and desultory, but the paintings contain deeper meaning. Abstract expressionist artists believed that their work explored the human condition.
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISTS a group of New York artists of the 1940's-50's, including Jackson Pollock. They made abstract works meant to express their feelings.
The Abstract Expressionists was a group of very different and individual artists, many of whom came together in New York?s Greenwich Village.
The Abstract Expressionist movement originated in the United States in the 1940s and remained strong through the 1950s. The artists emphasized spontaneous personal expression in large-scale abstract works.
The Abstract Expressionist movement, in its purest form, lasted from about 1942 through 1956. Abstract Expressionism was a development that fused several ideas.
For Abstract Expressionist artist, Jackson Pollock, the revolution in art was a consequence of radical social change: ...
The first group of Expressionists, called Die Brucke (The Bridge), was formed in Dresden in 1905, by Ernst Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Erich Heckel. The other major Expressionist group was called Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider).
zip - What Abstract Expressionist artist Barnett Newman (American, 1905-1970) called each of the vertical lines in his work. Many of his later works featured a zip.
hard-edge A term first used in the 1950s to distinguish styles of painting in which shapes are precisely defined by sharp edges, in contrast to the usually blurred or soft edges in Abstract Expressionist paintings.
His oeuvre is a celebration of painting's grand traditions - the still life, the portrait, history painting, and allegorical and mythological subjects - articulated in a visual style that has often been described as Expressionist.
"The Lyrical, the Expressionist and the Poetic" Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY
1995 ....."Trees" Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, Ma
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Though Kandinsky was born in Russia, he spent most of his creative years in Germany, and would head up the second German Expressionist group, known as "Der Blau Reiter".
Neo-Expressionism - Broadly used, this may refer to all expressionist art since the original movement known as Expressionism arose in Germany between 1905 and 1925.
Broadly used, this may refer to all expressionist art since the original movement known as Expressionism arose in Germany between 1905 and 1925. Abstract Expressionism is an example of a movement which may be referred to as neo-expressionist.
Other key influential painters were Abstract Expressionists Mark Rothko and Hans Hofmann.
The German public highly rated the Expressionist nature of his fantastic genre scenes. In May 1914, he held his first one-man show at the Galerie der Sturm.
Most abstract expressionist art is not a painting of an object or image, but instead a study in color and brush stroke. There are two major types of abstract expressionism. One is Action Painting and the other is Color Field Painting.
Neo-expressionists returned to portraying recognizable objects, such as the human body (although sometimes in a virtually abstract manner), in a rough and violently emotional way using vivid colours and banal colour harmonies.
Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter): A group of German artists based in Munich from 1911 to 1914, mostly expressionist painters, but their works ranged from pure abstraction to romantic imagery, attempting to express spiritual truths.
The November Group (German: Novembergruppe) was a group of German expressionist artists and architects. Formed on 3 December 1918, they took their name from the month of the Weimar Revolution.The group was led by Max Pechstein and César Klein.
There are several different and somewhat overlapping groups of Expressionist artists, including Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider"), Die Brücke ("The Bridge"), Die Neue Sachlichkeit ("The New Objectivity") and the Bauhaus School.
This section offers several routes to an understanding of Abstract Expressionist theory.
The 20th century's first expressionistic movement, Fauvism, inspired by Cezanne and led by Matisse, claimed to "celebrate nature through color". Fauvism represents an effort to capture the "spontaneous spirit of nature.
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) was an abstract expressionist painter known for his "drip and pour paintings".
The most famed German expressionists are Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein; the Austrian Oskar Kokoschka, ...
Expressionist artists projected their into motifs of the world: they changed or even distorted images according to their emotional intentions. Emotional charges appeared in dramatic colours and strong contrasts, as in romanticism.
Expressionistic form is defined by an obvious exaggeration of natural objects for the purpose of emphasizing an emotion, mood, or concept. It can better be understood as a more vehement kind of Romanticism.
A general term for the work of many American Abstract Expressionists and also that of European artists working in the same vein.
The term often implies emotional angst - the number of cheerful expressionist works is relatively small.
The Fauves and German Expressionists, prioritizing prismatic color within the pictorial vocabulary, asserted the autonomy of visual language.
For example, the abstract expressionist movement of the 1940's was established during a sexist period where many of the male artists, of that time, hung out in bars getting drunk and talked about their philosophical theories.
Both arose from a rebellion against an accepted style: the Cubists thought Post-Impressionist artists were too tame and limited, while Pop Artists thought the Abstract Expressionists pretentious and over-intense.
The American critic Harold Rosenberg used this term to describe the paintings of those among the Abstract Expressionists [such as de Kooning and Pollock] whose work emphasized the act itself of wielding a painting tool, ...
The Welsh artist Augustus Edwin John used an expressionist style that enlivens Joseph Widener's portrait with a flickering, abstracted setting.
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The Abstract Expressionists were based in New York City and were often referred to as the New York School. They were influenced by the ideas of Surrealism and aimed to make abstract art that also possessed expressive and emotional qualities.
What were these artists trying to achieve?
The Abstract Expressionists' goal was a raw and impulsive art. What mattered were the qualities of the paint itself and the act of painting itself.
Germany. Means 'The Bridge'. A group of expressionists artists. Their work is characterized by the intensely emotional and violent imagery.
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Blue Rider(Der Blaue Reiter) An influential group of German Expressionists formed in Munich in 1911 bv Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, August Macke and Franz Marc.
An early-20th-century movement in painting begun by a group of French artists and marked by the use of bold, often distorted forms and vivid colors. It was essentially an expressionist style, ...
Color-Field Painters: - A term used to describe the work Mark Rothko and other painters of Abstract Expressionist or New York School who explored the optical and mystical effects of fields of color. Return to top ...
In the first half of the 18th century Alessandro Magnasco dominated painting with his strange personality, his nervous technique and his exaggerated chiaroscuro; his expressionistic distortions created a fantastic world reminiscent of Salvator Rosa, ...
Some Abstract Expressionist artists were concerned with adopting a peaceful and mystical approach to a purely abstract image. Usually there was no effort to represent subject matter.
- "New" expressionism - a term originally applied to works done primarily by German and Italian, who came to maturity in the post-WWII era; and later expanded (in the 1980's) to include certain American artists. Neo- Expressionist works depict ...
Expressionism is exhibited in many art forms, including painting, literature, film, architecture and music. Additionally, the term often implies emotional angst - the number of cheerful expressionist works is relatively small.
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