Expressionism

1. EXPRESSIONISM 1905-1940s

2. 1905-1940s Center : Germany overlapped with other major 'isms' of the modernist period: with Futurism , Vorticism , Cubism , Surrealism and Dadaism a movement that developed in the early twentieth-century mainly in Germany in reaction to the dehumanizing effect of industrialization and the growth of cities inspired by Symbolists EXPRESSIONISM

3. Expressionism a style in which the intention is not to reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to express the inner state of the artist Expressionist artists - rejected the ideology of realism. - sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality

4. “ To evoke the subjective responses that the artist has to objects or events .” Contrasted with Impressionism - sought to capture the outward impression of an object or scene. Expressionism did not attempt a realistic portrayal of the world, but rather the extreme and distorting emotions that the world causes in the sensitive individual. G oal of Expressionism:

5. Portrait of Pope Innocent X by Diego Velasquez

6. Study After Velasquez’ s Portrait of Pope Innocent X by Francis Bacon (1953)

7. Artists

8. Edvard Munch Dec. 12, 1863- January 23, 1944 “No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.” “For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.”

9. self-portrait of Edvard Munch “Art is the opposite of Nature. A work of art can only come from inside a person. Art is the shape of the picture fashioned through the nerves, heart, brain and eye of a man.”

10. The Sick Child 1896

11. The Scream 1893

12. Madonna 1894-1895

13. Puberty 1894-1895

14. Anxiety 1894 Jealousy 1895

15. Melancholy 1894 Ashes 1894

16. Death in the Sick Chamber

17. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner "A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.“ "My paintings are allegories not portraits."

18.   Die Brücke (The Bridge) Self-portrait with Pipe, 1905

19. Nude Dancers, 1909

20. Marzella 1909-1910 Munch’s Puberty

21. Deutsch: Nollendorfplatz 1912

22. Street Berlin, 1913

23. Self Portrait as a Soldier 1915 Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with a Bandaged Ear

24. Wassily Kandinsky “Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors , and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.“ "Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand which plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul

25. Der Blaue Reiter  ( The Blue Rider )

26. Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) 1903

27. Composition VII, 1913

28. Composition X, 1939

29. Composition VII, 1923

30. Influence in Other Art forms Music

31. MUSIC Arnold Schoenberg Leader of Second Viennese School Known for Atonality and Twelve Tone Technique of composition Students: Anton Webern and Alban Berg Compositions: Fünf Orchesterstücke, Op. 16 (1909), Erwartung, Op. 17 (1909), Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 (1912)

32. Anton Webern Alban Berg

33. Glass Pavillion Einstein Tower ARCHITECTURE

34. MOVIE “ The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari   ”, 1920 -short horror film directed by Robert Wiene Used stylized sets, abstract jagged buildings painted in background actor used an unrealistic style that exhibited dancelike movements