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 expressionism
Expressionism is in every respect a complex and open term, that you can hardly define precisely.
All the problems of the new age of industry on the one hand the expansion of the city on the other hand, the loneliness of the people are topics in which art is very engaged.
The content and the new, bold creation of lines made the graphics of expressionism an important form of art.
http://www.museumonline.at/1997/schulen/weiz/expr_e.htm   (376 words)

  
 Expressionism
After 1913, in response to cubism and futurism, he turned to abstraction, creating moods of clashing, discordant uncertainty.
Though he was supported by many members of the Viennese aristocracy (and painted many of thier portraits), his work was also widely criticized for its eroticism.
Though there were many developments in different countries, the most famous and influential would be German Expressionism and Fauvism (primarily a French movement).
http://www.eyeconart.net/history/expressionism.htm   (1271 words)

  
 Art Museum of the Americas - New Expressions
Artists express their reservations about dependency on the logic of the computer with its prefabricated routes that rely on efficiency, speed and visibility of the moment.
Through artistic expressions we can observe that there exists a latent fear of the supremacy of technological logic.
Art Museum of the Americas - New Expressions
http://www.museum.oas.org/permanent/new_expressions.html   (964 words)

  
 The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature: Expressionism @ HighBeam Research
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Since it emphasizes the creator's mood and attitude, the movement is a development of Impressionism, from which it differs by being more concerned with individual intellectual conceptions, and less with the structure of exterior facts.
Expressionism, aesthetic movement in which the artist expresses inner experience through the free representation of objective facts.
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1O53:Expressionism/Expressionism.html?refid=ip_hf   (157 words)

  
 Expressionism: Its Spiritual and Social Voice
In Italy, Futurism promoted technology, speed, and machines.
With the collapse of the bourgeoisie class, growing scientific ideology and philosophical concepts (man's place in the integral whole), many Expressionists applied Sigmund Freud's studies on the unconscious and his expression automatique to their works [4].
Goebbels stated that removing these works from public places had nothing to do with artistic restrictions on pure-German expression.
http://www.vccaedu.org/inquiry/vcca-journal/norris2.html   (6719 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Abstract Expressionism (World of Art): Books: David Anfam
Whether you're a novice or an expert (I'm sort of inbetween) I think you're bound to find this book indispensable.
Despite its concise length Abstract Expressionism manages to cover the subject in depth as well as breadth.
I am an ardent fan of abstract expressionism but found the book difficult to finish because it was written so awkwardly.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0500202435?v=glance   (893 words)

  
 Expressionism - GFXartist.com - Served over 20,000,000 artworks
Ps, apologies for dodgy scans - my scanners almost dead and gives everything red edges!
Both describe Expressionism and include examples and artists' names:
Hello, once again, i'm doing my art a level and need help-we hav to relate to someone elses work, i took a photo and edited it and got this result:
http://www.gfxartist.com/community/forum/106041   (363 words)

  
 Abstract Expressionism
*** Keep in mind that Abstract Expressionism deals with ideas not facts.
Because craftsmanship is deliberately sacrificed, universal standards by which to judge the work are missing.
Originated in New York City in the mid 1940's, it involved artists from many different parts of the United States and Europe.
http://instruct.westvalley.edu/grisham/1d_abx_action.html   (176 words)

  
 Expressionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Expressionism is also used to describe other art forms.
In The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche presented his theory of the ancient dualism between two types of aesthetic experience, namely the Apollonian and the Dionysian; a dualism between a world of the mind, of order, of regularity and polishedness and a world of intoxication, chaos, ecstacy.
Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche played a key role in originating modern expressionism by clarifying and serving as a conduit for previously neglected currents in ancient art.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionism   (1391 words)

  
 Expressionism - Expressionism Art
Expressionism, as it was generally known, developed almost simultaneously in different countries from about 1905...
They went on with the same experiments and the thoughts and the ideas given by the work were more important than the realistic interpretation of the visible reality...
In the years just around 1910 the expressionistic approach pioneered by Ensor, Munch, and van Gogh, in particular, was developed in the work of three artists' groups: the Fauves, Die Brucke, Der Blaue Reiter.
http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/C20th/expressionism.htm   (765 words)

  
 MICROCOSMS: Expressionism
Expressionism developed in the 1920's into Serialism, and many Expressionistic elements continue to be used today.
Expressionism is most frequently associated with the word ATONAL (which means "without a tonal center").
Expressionism, also known as non-serial atonality, is the historical continuation of the Common Practice Period.
http://www.udayton.edu/~music/faculty/magnuson/microcosms/expressionism.html   (594 words)

  
 "Expressionism and Caligarisme" by Bouton Jones
Expression of a feeling which is not genuine and which has really been artificially stimulated is purer, clearer, and stronger than that of any person whose feeling is prompted by genuine stimulus...
According to Sokel the subjective Ich dramas were all centered around an enlightened protagonist who moved all the play's action.
Another film of this style, Von Morgens Bis Mitternachts, [Karl Heinz Martin, 1921] is an even better example of Caligarisme than Caligari because it remained truer to the precepts of Expressionism.
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Studio/1689/expr_act.html   (2443 words)

  
 German Expressionism
Expressionism also played a huge part in the genesis of Film Noir.
This is due, I think, to the primary themes of Expressionism, which are based in the human struggle to make sense of the world around us.
Common features include a high contrast between light and dark shading, eccentric (and often highly angular) set designs, dream-like haziness, and eerie or horrifying characters.
http://silentmoviemonsters.tripod.com/germanexpressionism.html   (727 words)

  
 Expressionism
The stylistic premise of Expressionism was that the artist's response to the environment was so intense that it affected the form of the art.
The goal of Expressionism was to evoke the subjective responses that the artist has to objects or events.
Expressionism influenced Surrealism, which was also important to Hitchcock's visual sense.
http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/expressionism/expressionism.html   (196 words)

  
 Category:Expressionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Expressionism is a tendency in art to distort reality for emotional effect, however the term is applied mainly to 20th century works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Expressionism   (68 words)

  
 ArtLex on Expression and Expressionism
This most famous of paintings is important for many reasons, not least of which is the subject's mysterious expression.
The place occupied by figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions-- everything plays a part.
In a picture every part will be visible and will play the role conferred upon it, be it principal or secondary.
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/e/expression.html   (766 words)

  
 Abstract Expressionism
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http://www.karinkuhlmann.de/DigitalWorlds/abstract5/abstract5.html   (177 words)

  
 Expressionism - MSN Encarta
Abstract expressionism appeared in the United States following the end of World War II in 1945.
Expressionism in music, which crested between the two world wars, gave voice to the anxieties, inner terrors, and cynicism of human life in the 20th century through emotionally intense, musically complex, and carefully structured works.
This phase of expressionism in Germany was marked by the conscious exposition of emotions and a heightened sense of the possibilities for expressive content.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761552391/Expressionism.html   (1082 words)

  
 Expressionism: Artists and their Works
In the mid-20th century, Abstract Expressionism (in which there is no subject at all, but instead pure abstract form) developed into an extremely influential style in the United States.
Expressionism is 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.
The movement is especially associated with Germany, and was influenced by such emotionally-charged styles as Symbolism, Fauvism, and Cubism.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/expressionism.html   (136 words)

  
 WebMuseum: Expressionnism
Expressionism, artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in him.
The search of harmony and forms is not as important as trying to achieve the highest expression intensity, both from the aesthetic point of view and according to idea and human critics.
Expressionism assessed itself mostly in Germany, in 1910, (München, Dresde, Berlin), as heir of a national trend related to Grünewald: the Wallraf-Richartz museum, in Köln, has the richest collection of this era.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/expressionism   (586 words)

  
 Global Gallery - Knowledge Center - Expressionism
This influence made Expressionism a very German movement in many ways.
Expressionism can be seen as the first and most dramatic departure from depicting the world and nature accurately and objectively through art.
Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian, embraced Expressionism during his years in Germany and helped to found the famed Expressionist Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) Group which is often seen as the high point of German Expressionism.
http://www.globalgallery.com/knowledgecenter/know.expressionism.php   (256 words)

  
 GreenCine German Expressionism
Even if for no other reason than that so many of the great German directors, cinematographers and set designers of the 1920s were chased out of the country and over to Hollywood by the rise of Hitler.
But at the same time, he can hardly be ignored.
And, though "Horror" isn't terribly long, you'll find more there on The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu and some of the themes running through Fritz Lang's work.
http://www.greencine.com/static/primers/expressionism1.jsp   (3361 words)

  
 Abstract Expressionism - Abstract Expressionism Art
Abstract Expressionism emphasized the depiction of emotions rather than objects.
However, many painters who had produced abstract expressionist work continued to work in that style for many years afterwards.
By the 1960s, the movement had lost most of its impact, and was no longer so influential.
http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/C20th/absexpress.htm   (845 words)

  
 Abstract Expressionism: Artists and their Works
It non-representational, or non-objective, art, which means that there are no actual objects represented.
Abstract Expressionism is a type of art in which the artist expresses himself purely through the use of form and color.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/abstract-expressionism.html   (84 words)

  
 Guggenheim Collection - Movement - Abstract Expressionism
The designation Abstract Expressionism encompasses a wide variety of postwar American painting through which the U.S. first became the center of the avant-garde.
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/movement_works_Abstract_Expressionism_0.html   (33 words)

  
 expressionism
Mark Rothko is one of the best examples of this kind of painter and shows this by his rectangles and the variety of color that he uses in his paintings.
One is Action Painting and the other is Color Field Painting.
There are two major types of abstract expressionism.
http://abstractart.20m.com/expressionism.html   (147 words)

  
 EXPRESSIONISM
This fundamental trait of the German character was to be the mainspring of Expressionism, too; but here the expression was to determine the form, and no longer be obliged to appear in the guise of nymphs, heroes and allegories.
It is impossible to try and explain the latest works of these ‘wild beasts’ as a formal development and re-interpretation of Impressionism.
The process whereby the colors and forms themselves became the repositories of the pictorial idea was carried to its logical conclusion in abstract art."
http://www.kilidavid.com/Art/Pages/Movements/expressionism.htm   (2034 words)

  
 Expressionism
Expressionism was therefore to be a way of painting through suffering to cope better with the unhappiness which surrounds everyone.
In Vienna, Kokoschka wanted his pictures to make the viewer empathize with the spirit of the subject; the purpose of a painting was not the object painted but the feeling and the impression it made on the person looking at it.
Around 1906, in Dresden, a group of artists, known as Die Brücke, developed Expressionism.
http://www.roland-collection.com/rolandcollection/section/14/504.htm   (327 words)

  
 ArtandCulture Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism is often held as America_s most important contribution to Modernism.
Opening onto innovative typographic statements by such luminaries as Kandinsky, Miro, and Richter, viewers are led to an index which allows them to explore not only the Abstract Expressionist movement, but many other, closely related artistic movements of the twentieth century.
Despite its notoriety, Abstract Expressionism was a short-lived movement, spanning the period from the end of the Second World War to the early 1950s, when Greenberg turned his attention to a younger, second generation of American painters.
http://www.artandculture.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/movement?id=1011   (384 words)

  
 abstract expressionism on Encyclopedia.com
It was the first important school in American painting to declare its independence from European styles and to influence the development of art abroad.
Philip Guston: abstract expressionism's provocative pioneer and ultimate critic.(Museum Today)(Biography)
Willem de Kooning 's first one-man show in 1948 established him as a highly influential artist.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/a1/abstrexp.asp   (517 words)

  
 NEW GROUNDBREAKING BOOK RESURRECTS LOST WORLD OF AMERICAN EXPRESSIONISM, FORGOTTEN ART OF THE 1920s, 30s
In his landmark book “American Expressionism: Art and Social Change 1920-1950” (Harry N. Abrams, 2003), Bram Dijkstra, a professor emeritus of literature at the University of California, San Diego, honors the previously neglected works and ideals of the American Expressionism movement, and reveals the truth about why the movement was suppressed.
With its bold social realism, American Expressionism posed quite a contrast to the minimal, conceptual, and apolitical art represented by its successor, Abstract Expressionism.
The inspiration for American expressionism was drawn directly from the artists’ life experiences, creating a truly unique and moving art form.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/arts/Dijkstrabook.htm   (465 words)

  
 German Expressionism Course Outline
And, a major learning objective of the course will be to become aware of those signs which foretell loss of artistic freedom of expression and the ways in which this freedom can best be protected.
This can be either an actual journey or a virtual journey to be shared with others in the online community.
And, although Expressionism was only a part of the Avant-garde art movement that became popular in the early part of the 20th century, Germany was its cultural and creative center.
http://www.virtual-explorations.org/course_outline_ge.htm   (435 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Abstract Expressionism (World of Art S.): Books
Traces the history of Abstract Expressionism, and examines its political implications and the cultural context in which it developed.
Customers who bought books by David Anfam also bought books by these authors:
Buy Abstract Expressionism (World of Art S.) with Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0500202435   (353 words)

  
 American Masters . Abstract Expressionism PBS
For the Abstract Expressionists, understanding the process of painting meant understanding something at the core of the human desire to express oneself.
Other artists such as Arshille Gorky and Hans Hoffman instilled in the Abstract Expressionists a concern for the physicality of paint and the possibilities of expression in abstraction.
The internal psychological struggle, the external struggle of man against nature, the spiritual quest for God -- these were topics that these artists felt needed to find expression in abstraction.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/abstract_expressionism.html   (390 words)

  
 expressionism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In literature, expressionism is often considered a revolt against realism and naturalism, seeking to achieve a psychological or spiritual reality rather than record external events in logical sequence.
1986); J. Weinstein, The End of Expressionism (1989).
The movement, though short-lived, gave impetus to a free form of writing and of production in modern theater.
http://www.bartleby.com/65/ex/expressi.html   (370 words)

  
 Physics!
D values are then extracted from a graph, such as the one shown in Fig.
The validity of this expression increases in the small L limit [2,9,10] where the total number of boxes N
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/PHYSICS_!/FRACTAL_EXPRESSIONISM/fractal_taylor.html   (2193 words)

  
 Mark Harden's Artchive: "Expressionism"
Expressionism was not purely associated with two-dimensional art.
For some, this state of affairs led to escapism into landscape or a discovery of the self, others experienced an alienation akin to that expressed by Dada (Grosz) and later by the Abstract Expressionists.
Expressionism has continued to be influential in later 20th century art (Baselitz).
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/expressionism.html   (464 words)

  
 ARTinaClick.com Art Styles -> Expressionism
Expressionism is art in which the emotions of an artist are paramount and take precedence over precise rendering of subject mater.
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In modern art expressionism is associated with the German movements of the early 20th century referred to as German Expressionism and include artists Wassily Kandinsky's Gleb Rot Blau, Egon Schiele, Amedeo Modigliani's Jeanne Hebuterne, and Franz Marc's A Dog, a Fox and a Cat.
http://www.artinaclick.com/artstyles/expressionism.asp   (100 words)

  
 German Expressionism
Rose-Carol Washton Long has drawn together over eighty documents crucial to the understanding of German Expressionism, many of them translated for the first time into English.
German Expressionism, one of the most significant movements of early European modernism, was an enormously powerful element in Germany's cultural life from the end of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Third Reich.
While the movement embraced such diverse artists as E. Kirchner, Wassily Kandinsky, Käthe Kollwitz, and George Grosz, all the participants shared an almost messianic belief in the power of art to change society.
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6701.html   (308 words)

  
 ArtsWork - Expressionism / Paintings
If I were to ask you the question, "What is Art?" You would probably begin by saying, "to express yourself." When you "express yourself," you're communicating your feelings, ideas, life history, and cultural values.
We will learn more about Expressionism in four lessons with four major assignments.
These lessons will help you learn about the three Arizona Visual Arts Standards: Art as Inquiry, Art in Context, and Creating Art.
http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/students/expressionism   (247 words)

  
 Abstract Expressionism
Given impetus by the work of Arshile GORKY, abstract expressionism is marked by an attention to surface qualities, i.e., brushstroke and texture; the use of huge canvases; the harnessing of accidents that occur while painting; and the glorification of the act of painting itself.
The first important school in American painting to declare independence from European styles and to influence art abroad, abstract expressionism enormously affected the kinds of art that followed it, especially in the use of color and material.
abstract expressionism movement in painting that emerged in New York City in the mid-1940s and attained prominence in American art in the following decade; also called action painting and the New York School.
http://www.radessays.com/link.php?site=re&aff=r2c2&dest=viewpaper.php?request=72396   (232 words)

  
 Amazon.com Books: Schools, Periods & Styles / German Expressionism
German art in our time;: An exhibition of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and book-jacket designs [at the] Art Center Gallery, Indiana University, October 1 through 22, 1958
German Expressionism : Documents from the End of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Rise of National Socialism (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art)
Amazon.com Books: Schools, Periods & Styles / German Expressionism
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/1078   (351 words)

  
 Fractal expressionism
The validity of this expression increases as L becomes smaller and the total number of boxes in the mesh is large enough to provide reliable counting statistics.
Values of the fractal dimension, D, are then extracted front a graph of N(L) versus L, using the relation N(L) ~ L
In our measurements the total number of boxes ranges from 100 to 4 million (figure 3).
http://www.physics.hku.hk/~tboyce/ap/topics/pollock.html   (2863 words)

  
 ArtLex about Expressionism
Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, which are usually referred to as German Expressionism, anticipated by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828), Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890), Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903) and others.
Also see degenerate, expressionism, expressive qualities, and isms and -ism.
Adolph Hitler (1889-1945), German dictator and perpetrator of genocide, who painted as a very young man. Also see degenerate art.
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/e/Expressionism.html   (1537 words)

  
 barewalls.com any poster. any wall. any time.
Although separated by a generation and an ocean, these artists all rejected traditional representation in favor of a powerful, abstract style more suited to the expression of personal, often troubling, emotions.
Our catalogue of prints and posters by Expressionist artists includes work by early 20th Century European Expressionists such as Gustav Klimt and Edvard Munch, as well as American Abstract Expressionists like Marc Rothko, and Jackson Pollock.
http://www.barewalls.com/index/expressionism.html   (75 words)

  
 Librarians' Internet Index: http://lii.org/search?query=Expressionism;searchtype=subject
--> Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Piet Mondrian were pioneers in the art movement known as Abstract Expressionism.
Here their impact on art, photography, music, theater, dance, architecture, poetry, and film is described and discussed.
http://lii.org/search?query=Expressionism;searchtype=subject   (481 words)

  
 Expressionism Art Style Information at Buy Art
A term specifically referring to the artistic style that began with a small group of artists called the BRIGDE group [‘Kunstler Gruppe Die Brucke’] that worked in Germany in the years 1905-1925 and more generally applies to the importance of the artist’s personal emotional expression in his\her work.
The artists of the group were Emil Nolde, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Hekel, Max Pechstein and Otto Miller.
http://www.buy-original-art.com/styles/expressionism.htm   (223 words)

  
 Expressionism: ArtSelect
When choosing a frame for your art print or canvas, try using simple ones that keep the focus on the active colors of the piece.
With a focus on expressing the inner experience of the artist, Expressionism is a dynamic and lively art style made famous by artists like Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Jackson Pollock, Franz Marc and Amedeo Modigliani.
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http://www.artselect.com/perl/frSearch?collectionGroupID=15&collectionID=911&t=b   (106 words)

  
 expressionism. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
A movement in the arts during the early part of the 20th century that emphasized subjective expression of the artist's inner experiences.
http://www.bartleby.com/61/16/E0291600.html   (86 words)

  
 Guggenheim Collection - Movement - Expressionism
The very elastic concept of Expressionism refers to art that emphasizes the extreme expressive properties of pictorial form in order to explore subjective emotions and inner psychological truths.
Vasily Kandinsky, Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2, 1913
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/movement_works_Expressionism_0.html   (46 words)

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