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Expressionism as a style in art

Expressionism as a style in art, music and literature spread in the first decade of the 20th Century. Recognizing his features in the fine arts, where he is mainly shown in painting and printmaking, is not that difficult.

  • In the first years of the 20th In the 19th century, various new currents developed in art, including Expressionism, its main representatives are the members of the two artist groups "Die Brücke" and "Der Blaue Reiter" belong. The desire of the artists of these new currents and thus also of the Expressionists was to work with 19th century art. Century, especially with impressionism. The reasons for this were also societal and lay among other things in the political tensions between the individual states, which led to worries and fears.
  • Basically, the Expressionists no longer wanted to reproduce external impressions, but rather internal subjective impulses and Expressing feelings, hence the name Expressionism, derived from the Latin term "exprimere" for "to express" originates. In the fine arts, this meant that it was no longer a matter of reproducing people and objects as realistically as possible. This led to the liberation from form and color conventions.

Features of expressionism

  • The use of bold colors to express inner feelings is an important characteristic in the fine arts of Expressionism. If you look at an expressionist painting, you will immediately notice that it is usually very colorful and faces can be bright reds, or a horse can also be blue, just like a cow can be bright red, green, or yellow.
  • Since the detailed representation does not matter for the expressionists when expressing feelings played, the objects depicted have greatly simplified forms, and sometimes also have an effect woodcut like. The traditional perspective was therefore also dissolved in favor of a two-dimensional representation.
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The art of interpreting the features

  • Since different currents and philosophies prevailed within Expressionism, they are not just representational Representations in greatly simplified forms, as maintained by and large by the members of the "Die Brücke" association were possible. If you see a painting that has abstract representations, it can also be a act expressionist image, as the members of the "Blue Rider", above all Wassily Kandinsky, also paint abstractly.
  • Not everything that is colorful and has appropriate shapes, however, belongs to Expressionism, and not only there Forerunners of a style are not always so easy to distinguish, but also in later times Imitators gave. The latter imitate the style, but they do not express the worldview that emerged against the background of the time.

So, as you can see, it is not always easy to correctly interpret the features mentioned, but when you do Recognizing such on a painting is the likelihood that you are dealing with Expressionism have, great.

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