expressionism edited with music
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EXPRESSIONISM
1905-1940s
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
Expressionisma 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
“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.
Goal of Expressionism:
Portrait ofPope Innocent Xby Diego Velasquez
Study After Velasquez’ s
Portrait of Pope Innocent X
by Francis Bacon(1953)
Artists
Edvard MunchDec. 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.”
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.”
The SickChild1896
The Scream1893
Madonna1894-1895
Puberty1894-1895
Anxiety1894
Jealousy1895
Death in the Sick Chamber
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."
Die Brücke (The Bridge)
Self-portrait with Pipe, 1905
Nude Dancers, 1909
Marzella 1909-1910
Deutsch: Nollendorfplatz1912
Street Berlin, 1913
Self Portrait as a Soldier 1915
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
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)
Der Blaue Reiter
(The Blue Rider) 1903
Composition VII, 1913
Composition X, 1939
Composition VII, 1923
Influence in Other Art forms
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)
Anton Webern Alban Berg