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Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. 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.
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Expressionism is an art and cultural movement of the 20th century. Expressionist artists try to express a feeling with what they create. Colours and shapes are not used in a way people see them, but as the artist feels them. Expressionism emerged as an ' avant-garde movement' in poetry and painting before the First World War.
Summary of Expressionism. Expressionism emerged simultaneously in various cities across Germany as a response to a widespread anxiety about humanity's increasingly discordant relationship with the world and accompanying lost feelings of authenticity and spirituality.
Expressionism is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect; it is a subjective art form. Also, unlike Impressionism, which was limited primarily to painting, Expressionism spread to many art forms, including not only painting, but literature, film, architecture and music.
Like many categories in art history, Expressionism was not a name coined by artists themselves. It first emerged around 1910 as a way to classify art that shared common stylistic traits and seemed to emphasize emotional impact over descriptive accuracy.
