It remained popular during the Weimar Republic, particularly in Berlin. Įxpressionism developed as an avant-garde style before the First World War. Expressionist artists have sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality. 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. Predominantly Germany, but also in Austria, France, and RussiaĪrtists loosely categorized within such groups as Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter the Berlin Secession and the Dresden SecessionĪmerican Figurative Expressionism, generally, and Boston Expressionism, in particularĮxpressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. The years before WWI and the interwar years Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893, oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard, 91 x 73 cm, National Gallery of Norway, inspired 20th-century Expressionists.

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