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Expressionism

Expressionism meaning

A movement in the arts in which the artist did not depict objective reality, but rather a subjective expression of their inner experiences. | A somewhat analogous genre in early 20th century music.

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As I started to look more at the art world, I began to move away from abstract expressionism and moved more into abstract portraits, figures and landscapes.

As part of the New York-based avant-garde group of artists, she returned to realism and figuration in reaction to Abstract Expressionism which dominated headlines during her early career,” Farnsworth Director Christopher Brownawell said in a statement.

The quintessential work of German Expressionism, of an entire cinematic style, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was described by Roger Ebert as the “first true horror film,” although a modern viewing is understandably unlikely to elicit chills.

These paintings are from the school of abstract expressionism, which means there's a lot of bright paint on them, and if you can look at one and figure out what it's supposed to be, the artist failed.

The days of its members bitterly dividing into aesthetic camps over abstract expressionism versus figuration are long gone, although an intensity of purpose still prevails.

And Scharf's colorful faces, informed by Abstract Expressionism, certainly offer up more emotional nuance than the ubiquitous digital yellow smileys.

Inspired by Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths, Anand’s rookie film, with nods to Eisenstein, Pudovkin and German Expressionism, went on to win the Grand Prix for the best film at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946.

The visual vocabulary used by the likes of Shutter Island and Unsane – the deranged camera angles, high-contrast lighting – is derived from the German expressionism of 1920s, which had a hotline to the psychological forces bubbling beneath society.

Angela Craven, “Interpretive Expressionism,” detail, resin/mixed media on wood.

Born in Japan on the eve of the Great Depression, Kusama immigrated to the United States in the 1950s in pursuit of her fascination with Abstract Expressionism.

He shows remarkable directorial craft while creating a dream-like scene between Baby and Karve which has a touch of expressionism about it.

Budko, who leaned first toward and later toward Expressionism, created a whole new Jewish iconography, ranging from Zionist symbols to representations of the world of theof his youth.

His art is heavily informed by his Native culture, Asian art, abstract expressionism and jazz music.

Specializing in acrylic and oil paintings with styles including impressionism and German expressionism, Henderson featured a set of three oil canvas paintings of two female nude models.

Abstract expressionism generally expanded and developed the definitions and possibilities available to artists for the creation of new works of art.

A highrise of the German Borsig company, made in the spirit of brick expressionism by Eugen Schmohl (1922–1924).

Also in Europe, Tachisme (the European equivalent to Abstract expressionism) took hold of the newest generation.

Arshile Gorky's portrait of someone who might be Willem de Kooning is an example of the evolution of abstract expressionism from the context of figure painting, cubism and surrealism.

Artists gravitating towards this aesthetic defined themselves by rejecting the themes of expressionism—romanticism, fantasy, subjectivity, raw emotion and impulse—and focused instead on precision, deliberateness, and depicting the factual and the real.

Art movements In the early 1950s Abstract expressionism and artists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning were enormously influential.