Expressionism: main works and artists

O Expressionism was a European artistic vanguard that revolutionized Europe not in the beginning of the 20th century.

It arises as a counterpoint to the impressionist movement and one of its main characteristics and valorization of human emotions and paixões, as well as serious dramas, displaying a pessimistic and somber vision of existence.

To see you there is a great highlight in Germany, with the participation of illustrious names such as Ernst Kirchner, Karl Schimidt-Rottluff, Franz Marc, Erich Heckel and Wassily Kandinsky.

Van Gogh and Edvard Munch are also associated with the movement because they are the forerunners of this type of approach.

Main Expressionist works and artists

1. Or scream (1893), Edvard Munch

A most famous work of art with expressionist characteristics and Or scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.

Munch is considered a great precursor of the movement and his work serves as inspiration for the creation of an expressionist group. Die Brücke (To Ponte), emmeds of 1905.

Na fabric we see a protagonist in despair, at the top of a ponte, struggling with the feelings of solidão, anxious and half, expressionist hairs have been explored, which seek to reveal a dark and disturbing side of existence human.

A composition exhibits intense cores, wave or its own environment - especially or orange-colored - deixa to see through lived anguish hair personagem principal, além de sua feição that brings us to our own death.

Both the shapes of the figure and the landscape are distorted, but you can easily identify them.

This caricatural and non-idealized aspect was perhaps more peculiarities of expressionism than Cause fright and non-public rejection, accustomed to works that enhance “beauty” and harmony shapes.

Or picture with dimensions of 91 x 73.5 cm and located in Norway, in the National Gallery of Oslo.

Read a complete analysis of the quadro Or scream, Edvard munch.

2. The First Animals (1913), by Franz Marc

Franz Marc (1880-1916) is two names of outstanding non-European expressionism. Together with Wassily Kandisnky, he formed in 1911 or Der Blaue Reiter (O cavaleiro azul), a group that explored the characteristics of the movement.

The artist painted a series of animals over the years and, especially since 1907, he began to insist on the representation of animals in full nature. Regarding fixação, do not fear, in declaration or painter chegou to affirm:

"People with a lack of piety, especially homens, will never touch my true feelings (...) But you are encouraged by their sense of virginal life awakening everything that was bom em mim."

On the canvas we see various characteristics of expressionism: a painting in vibrant tons, a deformed reality (repair differentiates between the dimensions of the two animals) and wished to capture the essence of the creatures that he portrayed, as well as a character emotional. There are also some elements that refer to the cubist style, such as geometric shapes.

Or picture is currently in a private collection and measures 39.05 x 46.67 cm.

3. Or blue cavaleiro (1903), Wassily Kandinsky

The Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) is usually associated with the abstractionist movement, meanwhile, he has also participated in non-expressionism.

A blue cavaleiro fabric was produced when the artist was not starting from his career. It is an important work, but it is possible to identify elements that are part of its later production, such as the valorization of living cores and a trend towards abstraction. Além disso, the cloth presents a mysterious and dynamic atmosphere.

The expressionist group formed by the other artists in 1911 was entitled as the same work.

A composition records a cavalheiro em ação from a purposely blurred image. Here dinner is linked to action and a gesture full of energy, which has also been reinforced with light brushstrokes.

Or grained and painted in a forte green, while I found little it is possible to observe the landscape. Some theorists affirm that we braços do cavaleiro have a criança.

4. Five women na Rua (1913) - Ernst Kirchner

Kirchner was a German expressionist artist who has made an important contribution to seeing you. He was a member of the Die Brücke group in 1905, responsible for the formal origin of the artistic movement and producing a work of contrasts, a certain agressivity and emotion.

Em Five Mulheres na Rua, or a painter manages to portray an everyday and banal dinner in order to convey concern and tension. Or a group of women presents elongated bodies, with noble and somber clothes. As expressões são sérias, or that gives a malicious and snobbish atmosphere.

Nessa painting can be found as expressionist characteristics or sarcastic tone and highlight to pessimism, evidenced by the broken proportions and deformities of the figures.

The canvas is located in the Ludwig Museum, in Germany, and measures 1.20 m X 90 cm.

5. Retirees (1944), by Portinari

In only Brazilian, some artists - especially from modernist dinner - they were inspired by non-expressionism to create works that, first of all, moment causing stranhamento by few distortions and aberrations of cores, as in the case of Lasar Segall and mainly of Anita Mafatti.

Another artist who was referred to a lot in the movement was Cândido Portinari. Many of their fabrics have an expressionist atmosphere, exaggerating human representation in order to highlight sad and distressing aspects.

Na work RetireesFor example, we have a portrait of a family of emigrants who is a victim of despair. Painted in dark colors, or square, hair stands out in a sinister and desperate way, with items that cry out for ajuda, bem in an expressionist style.

A fabric with dimensions of 180 x 190 cm and integrates the MASP (Art Museum of São Paulo) collection.

Characteristics of expressionism

I emphasized no movement or use of intense and contrasting colors. The greatest characteristic of expressionism was the approach of a altered reality, displaying deformities of figures as a way to show pessimism and bitterness.

You work we will value subjectivity and or psychological aspect two personagens. Expressionists invest in an emotional vision marked by a tragic and dramatic existentialism.

Some artists from the period also debruçarem not individual drama also pretendiam fazer social complaints demonstrating through art some darker aspects of being human.

Or what was it or Expressionism?

The Expressionist movement was consolidated in Germany between 1905 and 1914, the period between the wars.

We can say that Essa was the first avant-garde Europe, originated in a context of large transformations, as or technological development, bem as wars and other conflicts in society modern.

For many theoretical reasons, Van Gogh is considered or a forerunner of Expressionism, like Edvard Munch.

Important names foram: Karl Schimidt- Rottluff, Franz Marc, Erich Heckel, Ernst Kirchner, Franz Marc and Paul Klee.

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