Expressionism
What is Expressionism
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 within a person. The artist accomplishes this aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements.
It’s all about non-naturalistic art, brush strokes mainly playing the puppeteer over the paint. Expressionism can be used by any era, it was most popular in 20th century.
Source: https://www.britannica.com/art/Expressionism
How it works
Artistic style that the artist seeks out to depict not objectify reality, subjecting emotion response with a person and its surroundings. A good example of this is Vincent Van Gogh, the scream is the most notable one there is to recognize, although his other pieces are expressionism you wouldn’t think that, it could be that you’ve mistaken it for bright colors and bold lines.
Artists
It may be said to start with Vincent Van Gogh and then form a major stream of modern art embracing, among many others, Edvard Munch, fauvism and Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, the Brücke and Blaue Reiter groups, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Paul Klee, Max Beckmann, most of Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Francis Bacon, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer and the neo-expressionism of the 1980s.
Source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/e/expressionism
Artists examples:
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Although this is the oldest piece out of the three, I’ve picked out to have stranded out to me the most I feel it’s the most polished one here. The only Item of clothing is a red hat, and the rest is in the nude with the natural beauty of the woman body.
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This one is very different, this was the “middle child” of the three pieces and yet this one has more emotion than all of them. It’s a nice simple body piece with nice flat line colors, blacked out eyes. This could do with the artists religion or it could have been a choice that would make it stand out from the rest.
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This to me is the weirdest one out of the three. A tall man with longer legs than body, holding seemingly what seems to be a baby in a blanket. This to me makes no sense unless it was a visualized piece that he the artists took a photo off or either drew it then and there. I really can’t put my finger on that this piece is about or makes me feel, although I could research what it’s about for the artist it should really be focused on what it’s about for me in a way, and I just can’t think of what.
Neo Expressionism
What is it?
Neo-Expressionism, diverse art movement (chiefly of painters) that dominated the art market in Europe and the United States during the early and mid-1980s. Neo-Expressionism comprised a varied assemblage of young artists who had returned to portraying the human body and other recognizable objects, in reaction to the remote, introverted, highly intellectualized abstract art production of the 1970s. The movement was linked to and in part generated by new and aggressive methods of salesmanship, media promotion, and marketing on the part of dealers and galleries.
Source: https://www.britannica.com/art/Neo-Expressionism
How it works?
At the start of the 20th century, Expressionism turned the art world on its head. Spearheaded by German artists aiming to distort reality and “express” emotion, this modernist movement called for bright colors, bold brushstrokes, and energetic compositions. While Expressionism’s popularity waned by 1920, it has since sparked several styles and genres, with the Neo-Expressionists—a pack of daring artists—leading the charge.
Source:https://mymodernmet.com/neo-expressionism/
From simply looking at images of this, its all bright colors on a black background with wild patterns and designs making a whole piece- such as a portrait.
This one especially caught my eye. I love how its simple but can convey a message so quickly.
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