expressionism
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ExpressionismEmily Shrader, Navu Kaur, Hannah Ferree
Impressionism..
Recreating the objective world
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grand-Jatte (1884-1886) by Georges Seurat
● Subjective-Express the inner experience of the artist
● The artist substitutes the visual object reality with his own image of the object
● EMOTIONS, FEELINGS, INNER STATE OF BEING
Expressionism
ORIGIN
Late 1800sEarly 1900s
Originally in GERMANYDeveloped in reaction to the dehumanizing effect
of industrialization and the growth of cities.
Influences● Fauvism-strong colors● Art from the Middle Ages● African art● Vincent Van Gogh○ He overlapped into
expressionism ○ ex. Starry Night
Style● Intense, bold, un-natural colors
● Distorted and exaggerated forms
● Creates an emotional effect
● Vivid imagery
James Ensor(1860-1949)● Belgian● Left school at 15 to study painting at
Academe Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels● Early Art Rejected● His mother owned a giftshop which sold
masks for Ostend's annual Carnival- greatly influenced his work
● Painter, but shifted to composing music in late 1910's
● Died of an illness- November 19, 1949
Christ's Entry into Brussels1889
The Intrigue- 1890
Self Portrait with Masked Ones- 1899
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)● German● first studied to become an architect● leader of the movement● printmaker, painter, sculptor● joined the army and had a nervous
breakdown● time spent in hospitals● Nazis called him degenerate
○ destroyed 600 paintings● He committed suicide
Old House, Fehmarn (1908)
Berlin StreetScene, 1913
Winter Landscape by Moonlight, 1919
Die Brucke
● Kirchner was a founder● inspired by Nietzsche, Van
Gogh, and Edvard Munch● wanted to make new
German art● symbolic images● expressed social views● bold outlines● pure colors● Kirchner wrote a book
about the group and the group disbanded
Marzella, 1909-10
Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
● Norwegian Painter● CHILDHOOD- Disturbed
○ Death of mother and sisters due to Tuberculosis ● Spent two decades of his life traveling,
studying, working, and exhibiting in France and Germany.
● Shaped our understanding of the human experience ○ Transformed the visual expression of it
● END-Sanitarium
Night in Saint Cloud (1890)0)
Death in the Sickroom (1893)
Madonna1894
(Lithograph)
The Scream (1893)
"I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun was setting. I felt a breath of melancholy – Suddenly the sky turned blood-red. I stopped, and leaned against the railing, deathly tired – Looking out across the flaming clouds that hung like blood and a sword over the blue-black fjord and town. My friends walked on – I stood there, trembling with fear. And I sensed a great, infinite scream pass through nature." -Munch
Starry Night (Van Gogh) 1888
Created in Sanitarium- One of the1st true expressionistpieces of artcreated.
Anxiety (1894)
The Dead Mother and Child (1897)
The Dance of Life 1900
The Night Wanderer (1923)
Henri Rousseau(1844-1910)● Born May 21, 1844● Self-taught French painter● Worked as a tax collector for much of his life
○ Known as "Le Douanier" by his friends because of it● Didn't truly begin painting until almost 50
years old● Finished paintings from magazines and
other sources● Died September 2, 1910
The Sleeping Gypsy- 1897
The Hungry Lion Throws itself on the Antelope- 1905
Negro Attacked by a Jaguar- 1910
Apes in the Orange Grove
Summary
SUBJECTIVE- Inner Emotions and FeelingsTHE PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE
~Bold, un-natural colors~Distorted, exaggerated forms~Emotion~Vivid Imagery