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Expressionism

Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas[1][2] Expressionist artists sought to express meaning[3] or emotional experience rather than physical reality[3][4]Expressionism was developed as an avant-garde style before the First World War It remained popular during the Weimar Republic,[1] particularly in Berlin The style extended to a wide range of the arts, including painting, literature, theatre, dance, film, architecture and musicThe term is sometimes suggestive of emotional angst In a general sense, painters such as Matthias Grinewald and El Greco are sometimes termed expressionist, though in practice the term is applied mainly to 20th-century works The Expressionist emphasis on individual perspective has been characterized as a reaction to positivism and other artistic styles such as naturalism and impressionism[5]The term was invented by Czech art historian Antonin Matjek in 1910 as the opposite of impressionism: "An Expressionist wishes, above all, to express himself (an Expressionist rejects) immediate perception and builds on more complex psychic structures Impressions and mental images that pass through mental peoples soul as through a filter which rids them of all substantial accretions to produce their clear essence [

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and] are assimilated and condense into more general forms, into types, which he transcribes through simple short-hand formulae and symbols" (Gordon, 1987)The term "Expressionism" is usually associated with paintings, graphic work, and other forms of artistic practice in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century that challenged academic traditions, particularly the Die Bricke and Der Blaue Reiter groupsMore generally, the term refers to art that expresses intense emotion


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