ExpressionismEmily Shrader, Navu Kaur, Hannah Ferree

Impressionism..

Recreating the objective world

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grand-Jatte (1884-1886) by Georges Seurat

● Subjective-Express the inner experience of the artist

● The artist substitutes the visual object reality with his own image of the object

● EMOTIONS, FEELINGS, INNER STATE OF BEING

Expressionism

ORIGIN

Late 1800sEarly 1900s

Originally in GERMANYDeveloped in reaction to the dehumanizing effect

of industrialization and the growth of cities.

Influences● Fauvism-strong colors● Art from the Middle Ages● African art● Vincent Van Gogh○ He overlapped into

expressionism ○ ex. Starry Night

Style● Intense, bold, un-natural colors

● Distorted and exaggerated forms

● Creates an emotional effect

● Vivid imagery

James Ensor(1860-1949)● Belgian● Left school at 15 to study painting at

Academe Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels● Early Art Rejected● His mother owned a giftshop which sold

masks for Ostend's annual Carnival- greatly influenced his work

● Painter, but shifted to composing music in late 1910's

● Died of an illness- November 19, 1949

Christ's Entry into Brussels1889

The Intrigue- 1890

Self Portrait with Masked Ones- 1899

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)● German● first studied to become an architect● leader of the movement● printmaker, painter, sculptor● joined the army and had a nervous

breakdown● time spent in hospitals● Nazis called him degenerate

○ destroyed 600 paintings● He committed suicide

Old House, Fehmarn (1908)

Berlin StreetScene, 1913

Winter Landscape by Moonlight, 1919

Die Brucke

● Kirchner was a founder● inspired by Nietzsche, Van

Gogh, and Edvard Munch● wanted to make new

German art● symbolic images● expressed social views● bold outlines● pure colors● Kirchner wrote a book

about the group and the group disbanded

Marzella, 1909-10

Edvard Munch (1863-1944)

● Norwegian Painter● CHILDHOOD- Disturbed

○ Death of mother and sisters due to Tuberculosis ● Spent two decades of his life traveling,

studying, working, and exhibiting in France and Germany.

● Shaped our understanding of the human experience ○ Transformed the visual expression of it

● END-Sanitarium

Night in Saint Cloud (1890)0)

Death in the Sickroom (1893)

Madonna1894

(Lithograph)

The Scream (1893)

"I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun was setting. I felt a breath of melancholy – Suddenly the sky turned blood-red. I stopped, and leaned against the railing, deathly tired – Looking out across the flaming clouds that hung like blood and a sword over the blue-black fjord and town. My friends walked on – I stood there, trembling with fear. And I sensed a great, infinite scream pass through nature." -Munch

Starry Night (Van Gogh) 1888

Created in Sanitarium- One of the1st true expressionistpieces of artcreated.

Anxiety (1894)

The Dead Mother and Child (1897)

The Dance of Life 1900

The Night Wanderer (1923)

Henri Rousseau(1844-1910)● Born May 21, 1844● Self-taught French painter● Worked as a tax collector for much of his life

○ Known as "Le Douanier" by his friends because of it● Didn't truly begin painting until almost 50

years old● Finished paintings from magazines and

other sources● Died September 2, 1910

The Sleeping Gypsy- 1897

The Hungry Lion Throws itself on the Antelope- 1905

Negro Attacked by a Jaguar- 1910

Apes in the Orange Grove

Summary

SUBJECTIVE- Inner Emotions and FeelingsTHE PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE

~Bold, un-natural colors~Distorted, exaggerated forms~Emotion~Vivid Imagery