The Expressionist Art Movement

Expressionism was an artistic style which grew like a rose out of the dirt of the late 19th early 20th century society. Originating in Federal Republic Of Germany and Republic Of Austria and following the anti-authority thought of people such as as Freud, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky, the expressionist motion focused on the look of interior experience and emotion. It was less concerned with the world of what a topic looked like and expressed the artist's emotional reaction to it.

These pictures can often be characterized by contorted word forms drawn in bold colors and two dimensions, without perspective. But always sought to picture intense emotion and was always strongly subjective. Often the mental images were full of Angst such as as as Edvard Munch's The Scream, or the latter pictures of Vincent and Gough such as The Starry Night.

Around the clip of World War two the expressionist fine art motion had migrated to the shores of America. Indeed, it was the people of this clip which established New House Of York as a topographic point of importance in the fine art world. It have been said that expressionism was a forerunner to Surrealism and influenced people such as as Dali. A immense portion of the motion in United States became abstract expressionism, characterized by dripping paint onto the canvas. One of the most celebrated of the abstract expressionist painters of this time period was Glenda Jackson Pollock.

Interestingly the people pioneering this motion never described themselves as expressionists, it was a label given to them, and as an artistic style is still very much alive today within the work of many modern-day painters.

I myself utilize this style because I pull musicians. Music itself is an incarnation of the interior emotional experience and with my fine art I seek to show this subjective image. Expression of emotion through music is something I seek to capture in drawings and I can believe of no better artistic style with which to accomplish this than the expressionist 1 which supplies me with all the tools I necessitate to picture the keen passion, soulful blues and affecting grief expressed by the true musician.