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reality run through a panic attack and painted in screaming color.
means An early-20th-century art movement that distorts and exaggerates color, line, and form to convey emotional experience rather than objective reality.
from From 'express' — Latin 'exprimere,' to press out, squeeze forth — joined to the '-ism' that turns a tendency into a movement. The English 'expressionism' surfaces in the early 20th century, partly translating the German 'Expressionismus,' the label that gathered up artists like Munch, Kirchner, and the Blaue Reiter painters who wanted to wring inner feeling onto the canvas. Fittingly, the word's own root means to squeeze something out under pressure — which is more or less what the movement did to reality.
- core idea
- feeling over accuracy, distortion over realism
- the scream
- Munch's icon haunts everyone's intro art class
- nazi target
- branded degenerate art and seized by Hitler
- crossed media
- warped film sets and atonal music too
- birthplace
- early 1900s Germany, full of dread
the scream — edvard munch's 1893 painting, one of the most recognizable expressionist works
egon schiele — austrian expressionist painter known for contorted, sexually charged self-portraits from 1910-1918