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Creative Industries 1: Arts and Design Appreciation and

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EXPRESSIONISM

THE HISTORY BEHIND THE MOVEMENT

Expressionism emerged as an 'avant-garde movement' in painting before the World War I

The movement primarily originated in Germany and Austria

Expressionism gained significance between 1905 and 1918 during a politically and culturally turbulent era of revelation of the profoundly problematic conditions of the turn-of-the-century Europe.

INFLUENCES

Expressionism

The French Impressionis

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African Art Fauvism

WHAT ITS MADE OF. Worked with arbitrary colors as well as jarring

compositionsArbitrary colors: Colors selected and used without

reference to those found in realityJarring compositions: To have a harshly unpleasant

or perturbing effect on one’s nerves, feelings,

thoughts, etc.

artist's response to the environment was so intense that it affected the form of the art. elements are distorted or exaggerated by subjective pressures

vivid and violent, with jarring images.

Expressionist goal is to capture emotion from the audience by:

1.Use of subjective interpretations of the world around them

2.Use of powerful colors and dynamic compositions to help inflict emotion

THE DRIVE BEHIND THE PAINTINGS Inner experience

rather than solely realistic portrayal

Depict not the objective reality, but the subjective emotions and responses

Expressionist Goals:

Strongly impose the artist's own sensibility to the worlds representation

EDVARD MUNCH He first studied

engineering but his frequent illnesses interrupted his studies

Left college to paint “in my art I attempt

to explain life and its meaning to myself.”

Lived a life of solitude

Depressed- mother died at the age of five, sister died when he was fourteen

EDVARD MUNCH •Put a lot of emotion into his works •Used heavy emotional colors and thick brush strokes•Art was a way for him to release himself •Focused on sickness, anxiety, pain, and love

The Scream 1893- Edvard Munch

Aspects- •Strong colors•Heavy use of line•Shows how artist saw scene, not how it actually was •Subject is distorted and exaggerated •Emotional feelings of the anxiety of the modern man

EXPRESSIONISM INFLUENCES FILM

Asymmetrical camera angles

Harsh contrasts between dark and light

Shadows and silhouettes were important feature

Distortion was commonly used

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9TQkh6F4ZU

EXPRESSIONISM IN ARCHITECTURE

The form can represent the physical manifestation of a transpersonal or mystic spirit.

Displayed an aggressive articulation of parts

Evoke or express the inner sensitivities and feelings of the viewer or architect.Einstein Tower in

Potsdam Germany

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Cubism-The two founders of cubism are Pablo Picasso and George Braque.-Influence of cubism is Paul Cezanne.-Cubists fractured the laws of perspective, breaking p space into jagged planes without a sense of logic.

-Pablo Picasso-Blue period - Pink period (1901-1904) (1904-1906)The guitarist Le demoiselle de Avignon

Filipino artistsVincente Manansala Cesar LegaspiSunkga, 1967 The brave modern