Expressionism

Early 20th Century

• Three styles compete to define the future of "modern" art
  • Cubism
  • Expressionism
  • Surrealism

Expressionist Art

• The Aesthetic
  • Bold, saturated color
  • Inner expression, primordial
• Matisse
  • Fauvism (Wild Beasts) - A movement associated with Expressionism
  • Color clashes with saturated and intense presentations including visual distortions
  • Two dimensional perspective and "simplistic" reduction of form
  • Medium itself is expression
    • Blue Window
    • My Room at the Beau-Rivage
• Kandinsky
  • Write the Concerning the Spiritual in Art as a treatise explaining his style
  • Eventually embraced a purely nonrepresentational presentation
  • Expression through color, texture, and form without objects from nature
    • Improvisation No. 30
    • Composition VI
• Moore
  • Expressionism in fully-round sculpture
  • Primitive elements seen in use of wooden mediums
  • Positive and Negative space
    • Reclining Figure
    • Reclining Angel

Music

• Stravinsky
  • The final death of Romanticism arrives with his ballets
  • Primitive expressionism in ballet
  • The Rite of Spring

More extensive and full-sized art works may be seen in the Gallery

Humanities Resource of Mark Hunter