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Expressionism

Power Point
By
Anna May Paredes
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Expressionism is the tendency of an artist
to distort reality for an emotional
effect; it is a subjective art form.
Germany ( German Expressionism )
often implies emotional sorrow
refers to art that expresses intense emotion
the use of distortion and exaggeration for
emotional effect
a style of art 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...
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Vincent van Gogh
The Scream by
Edvard Munch
(1893) which
inspired 20th
century
Expressionists
One of the earliest
and most famous
examples of
Expressionism is
Gogh's "The Starry
Night."
Edvard Munch
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"View of Toledo" by El Greco


has been pointed out to bear a particularly
striking resemblance to 20th century
expressionism. Historically speaking it is
however part of the Mannerist movement.
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Abstract
Expressionism
In the mid-20th century
in which there is no subject
at all, but instead pure
abstract form (developed
into an extremely influential
style in the United States).
Such works employ random
naturalistic methods, with
deliberate and intelligent
designs and expressions
such that the work is
understood to be a creation,
and not just an accident.
Jackson Pollock
No. 5, 1948.
The painting was done
on an 8' x 4' sheet of
fiberboard, with thick
amounts of brown and
yellow paint drizzled on
top of it, forming a nest-
like appearance.
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Hans Hofmann The
Gate, 19591960.
Hofmann's presence
in New York City
and Provincetown
as a teacher and as
an artist was
influential to the
development of
American painting
in the 1930s and
1940s.
Cubi VI (1963),
Israel Museum,
Jerusalem.
David Smith was
one of the most
influential American
sculptors of the 20th
century.
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I n other arts
Sculpture
-Erich Heckel
Portrait of a Man, hand colored
woodcut by Erich Heckel, 1919.
-Ernst Barlach
The Magdeburger Ehrenmal
(Cathedral of Magdeburg), which
created a large controversy about
Barlach's anti-war position
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Film
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (original title:
Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari) is a 1920
silent film directed by Robert Wiene from a
screenplay written by Hans Janowitz and
Carl Mayer.
It is one of the earliest, most influential and
most artistically acclaimed German
Expressionist films.
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Literature
Expressionist
poetry also
flourished mainly
in the German-
speaking countries.
novels of Franz
Kafka are often
described as
expressionist.
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Theatre
Georg Kaiser and Ernst Toller were the
most famous playwrights.
Expressionist plays often dramatize the
spiritual awakening and sufferings of their
protagonists.
modeled on the episodic presentation of the
suffering and death of Jesus in the Stations
of the Cross.
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Oskar
Kokoschka's
Murderer, The Hope of
Women
often called the first
expressionist drama.
In it, an unnamed man and
woman struggle for
dominance. The Man brands
the woman; she stabs and
imprisons him. He frees
himself and she falls dead at
his touch. As the play ends,
he slaughters all around him
"like mosquitoes."
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Music
sought to express the subconscious, the
'inner necessity' and suffering through their
highly dissonant musical language.
expressionist composers self-consciously
used atonality to free their artform from the
traditional tonality.
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Architecture
Expressionist
architecture as a side
show in the development
of functionalism
1914 "Glass Pavilion" of
Bruno Taut
prismatic glass dome structure
The structure was a brightly
colored landmark at the
exhibition, and was constructed
using concrete and glass. The
concrete structure had inlaid
colored glass plates on the facade
that acted as mirrors.
Interior staircases and
waterfalls
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The Einsteinturm or
Einstein Tower in
Potsdam, Germany
an astrophysical observatory in
the Albert Einstein Science
Park in Potsdam, Germany
designed by architect Erich
Mendelsohn
It is still a working solar
observatory today as part of the
Astrophysical Institute
Potsdam. Light from the
telescope is brought down
through the shaft to the
basement where the
instruments and laboratory are
located.