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Expressionism

Expressionism was an artistic style that emerged in Germany in the late 19th century. Artists used exaggerated forms and unnatural colors to convey emotions like despair, loneliness, and madness. Key figures like Edvard Munch and Vincent van Gogh influenced the movement by exploring intense emotions through color and line. The rise of the Nazis led to expressionist art being declared "degenerate" and many artists went into exile. Characteristics of expressionism included distorted figures, dramatic brushwork, and unrealistic colors used to portray modern alienation. Major expressionist works in different arts challenged social norms and exposed suppressed feelings.

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Expressionism

Expressionism was an artistic style that emerged in Germany in the late 19th century. Artists used exaggerated forms and unnatural colors to convey emotions like despair, loneliness, and madness. Key figures like Edvard Munch and Vincent van Gogh influenced the movement by exploring intense emotions through color and line. The rise of the Nazis led to expressionist art being declared "degenerate" and many artists went into exile. Characteristics of expressionism included distorted figures, dramatic brushwork, and unrealistic colors used to portray modern alienation. Major expressionist works in different arts challenged social norms and exposed suppressed feelings.

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Expressionism

Presented by: Oheneba,Ruby-Nana and Sedinam


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Major concerns
01 Definition 03 of expressionism 05 Contributions

History and
02 04 Characteristics
development
06 Artworks
01
What is
Expressionism?
WHAT IS EXPRESSIONISTIC ART

Expressionist art was a style in which writers used their


writing to convey their feelings and emotions. This
phrase was used in an excessive, immoral, rebellious,
and pessimistic manner.
Topics like loneliness, despair, and madness were
frequently discussed.
02
History
&
Development
of
Expressionism
During the late 1800s, a group of talented artists in Germany established
Expressionism. They saw the Industrial Revolution as insulting and isolating.
They also despised nineteenth-century Impressionism. A style that reinforced
color and "classy" works of art with very lile complexity.

Many people agree that Edvard Munch and Vincent van Gogh had a significant
impact on the Expressionist movement. Van Gogh and Munch, known for their
work in the 1880s and 1890s, during the post-Impressionist period, employed
color and line to explore dramatic topics, intense emotions, and varied states
of mind from a more subjective perspective than the artists and movements
that came before them.
03
Major
Concerns of
Expressionism
Expressionism’s demise was accelerated by its nebulous aspirations for a
beer world, use of highly lyrical language, and overall profoundly private
and exclusive nature of its manner of presentation. The movement’s
demise in the late 1920s was exacerbated by the partial restoration of
stability in Germany after 1924 and the emergence of more explicitly
political social realist styles. The rise of the Nazis to power in 1933 resulted
in the unmistakable death of expressionism. They declared practically all
Expressionist art to be degenerate, prevented them from exhibiting or
publishing, and eventually even from finding employment. Numerous
Expressionists fled to exile in the US and other nations.
04

Characteristics of
expressionism in
various arts
Characteristics of expressionistic Art

● A person, a location, or an object may be exaggerated or misrepresented. Even nature may


be twisted occasionally. The images portray a harsh and alienating modern environment.
The forceful and unpolished brushstrokes intensify the menacing vibe.

● People appear ill or to be suering from severe emotional torment. The looks are usually
depressing. Expressionist art never has conventionally beautiful elements

● Colors are unrealistic like in Fauvism, although Expressionists weren’t red-obsessed. In


order to "convey" their sentiments about the present world, the artificial hues are
frequently gloomy. Expressionism was originally described as "fauvism with black
spectacles" by someone. In his own words, Edvard Munch "painted the clouds like actual
blood" in his masterwork.
THEATRE

● Elevated angles - This technique is where the camera looks down at the
character and makes them seem smaller which makes them look
vulnerable.

● Extreme camera movement - Expressionism films would usually have the


camera constantly moving and shooting weird angles that aren't used in
‘normal’ films

● Difficult sets - The sets often used in these types of films are out of the
normal to give them that absurd look
MUSIC
● High levels of disharmony,

● Clear dierences in
dynamics,(loudness)

● Frequent changes in texture,


"exaggerated" melodies and
harmonies

● Aggressive melodies with large


leaps are all present.
05
Artists and
their
contributions to
expressionism
ART
Edvard Munch

Munch led the opposition against the naturalistic rules of academic painting in the 19th
century and went beyond the naturalism that remained in Impressionism. His emphasis on the
basics of emotion occasionally resulted in drastic form reductions and an expressive rather
than descriptive use of color.
THEATRE
German actor and playwright Frank Wedekind rose to fame as a powerful individual
in the German artistic community.
Wedekind produced plays in Munich between the nineteenth and twentieth
century. He is regarded as a precursor of expressionism and absurd theater.
Wedekind promoted an early expressionist strategy with the aim of delving beneath
the surface of reality since he was unable to reconcile himself with the naturalistic
trends in theater that were supported by the majority of Munich’s artists.
Wedekind’s art demonstrates his enduring hatred of the bourgeoisie’s moral code.
In his dramas, he used episodic scenes, fragmented language, distortion, and
caricature, which helped to bridge the gap between the realism of his day and the
expressionism of the generation after him.
MUSIC

Arnold Schoenberg. His Jewish-born parents raised him as a Catholic.


He began violin lessons at the age of eight and later taught himself
cello. He studied composition with Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942)
while working as a bank clerk; Schoenberg soon wrote his first string
quartet (1897), which was well received. He obtained a teaching position
in Berlin with the assistance of Richard Strauss, but he soon returned to
Vienna, having completed his massive cantata Gurrelieder (1901,
orchestrated 1913). Alban Berg and Anton Webern began their studies
with him in 1904, which would shape their later artistic careers
profoundly. Schoenberg came to believe that tonality had to be
abandoned around 1906.
06

ARTWORKS AND THEIR


EFFECTS ON VIEWERS
ART

As a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) in 1911, Marc was at the center of a group of
German and Russian expatriate painters whose works had a significant influence on the growth of German
Expressionism, including August Macke, Wassily Kandinsky, and several others.
THEATRE

In Wedekind’s Spring Awakening, teenagers and their


sexualities are shown as being suppressed by
bourgeois society. In the movie, he depicts students
going on their own exploration trips and the eects
of their decisions, which led to the deaths of
majority of the main characters.
MUSIC
Over a fifty-year period, Schoenberg taught thousands
of students, including Austrian composers Anton
Webern and Alban Berg. Schoenberg saw teaching as an
inspirational motivational tool rather than a job. He said:
"I must confess that I was a passionate teacher, and the
satisfaction of giving to beginners as much as possible
of my own knowledge was probably a greater reward that
the actual fee I received (Simms 1)." His enthusiasm was
passed on to his students, who encouraged a musical
revolution.
Reference list
GREEN, B. (2015). Reading Response: Frank Wedekind’s ‘Spring Awakening’ – New York Scenes. [online] NEW YORK SCENES.
Available at: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/tenneriello15/2015/10/04/reading-response-frank-wedekinds-spring-awakening/
[Accessed 16 Jan. 2023].

Grzesiak, M. (n.d.). Spring Awakening – Modernism Lab. [online] campuspress.yale.edu. Available at:
https://campuspress.yale.edu/modernismlab/spring-awakening/ [Accessed 16 Jan. 2023].

Studiobinder (2020). What is German Expressionism in Film? Defining the Style. [online] StudioBinder. Available at:
https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/german-expressionism-film/ [Accessed 16 Jan. 2023].

THOMAS, G. (2018). The Characteristics of Expressionism ~ LORECENTRAL. [online] LORECENTRAL. Available at:
https://www.lorecentral.org/2018/11/the-characteristics-of-expressionism.html [Accessed 16 Jan. 2023].
THANKS

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