Other forms of the movement developed in France, Paris, and Austria. While certain artists rejected Expressionism, others continued to expand its innovative art and style. Since then, Expressionism became a widely recognized form of modern art.Įxpressionism had its most direct impact in Germany and continued to shape the country's art for decades after the First World War.
These two groups became the foundation of the German Expressionism movement. Kandinsky and Franz Marc where its founders, whilst Paul Klee and August Macke were amongst its members. A few years later, in 1911, a like-minded group of young artists formed Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) in Munich. Whereas the Impressionists sought to express the majesty of nature and the human form through paint, the Expressionists, according to Matějček, sought to express their feelings about what they saw.Įxpressionism first emerged in 1905, when a group of four German students guided by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner founded the Die Brücke (the Bridge) group in the city of Dresden. With this word the Czech art historian intended to denote the opposite of Impressionism and indicate one of the main currents of art that expresses highly subjective, personal, spontaneous self-expression typical of a wide range of modern artists. and abroad, including the Sundance Film Festival, and she is the co-founder of the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation. Carrés animated films have been shown in festivals throughout the U.S. The popularity of Expressionism increased when Antonin Matějček in 1910 coined the term. Across the artists animations, comics, illustrations, artist books, and wall art, every piece bursts with observation, subtlety, and wit. The word expressionism was first used in 1850, mostly to describe the paintings where an artist’s strong emotions were clearly depicted. As a movement, the term expressionism usually denotes the late-19th century, early-20th century schools of emotive or interpretive art, which emerged in Germany as a reaction to the more passive style of Impressionism.