Expressionist
Feeling over form
An Expressionist is an artist or writer associated with Expressionism, the early 20th-century movement that prioritized emotional experience over realistic depiction.
Expressionist painters like Munch and Kirchner used distorted forms and intense colors to convey inner states.
As an adjective, Expressionist describes work in this style: Expressionist drama, Expressionist woodcuts.
The lowercase form describes any art emphasizing subjective emotion over external reality.
Bauhaus painting instructor
- MunchNorwegian symbolist painter
- Die BrückeExpressionist artist collective
- Der Blaue ReiterExpressionist art movement, Munich
- woodcutRelief print from timber
distortion · angst · Weimar · avant-garde · modernist · primitivism · subjective · abstraction
Arousing strong feelings
- rawIn original state
- visceralArising from deep instinct
- gesturalRelating to body movements
- boldCourageous and daring
intense · distorted · jarring · vivid · anguished · turbulent · unrestrained · subjective
1922 German vampire film
- MetropolisHero's fictional American city
- chiaroscuroContrast technique in painting
- shadowLight blocked by object
- silent eraFilmmaking before talkies
Fritz Lang · German cinema · grotesque · angular · stylized · nightmare · theatrical · psychological
Czech-Jewish literary surname
- fragmentationBreaking into smaller pieces
- alienationState of being isolated
- stream-of-consciousnessNarrative of unfiltered thought
- nightmareFrightening dream causing wakefulness
urban · dehumanization · grotesque · apocalyptic · revolt · subjective · despair · visionary
Kandinsky
Bauhaus painting instructor
- MunchNorwegian symbolist painter
- Die BrückeExpressionist artist collective
- Der Blaue ReiterExpressionist art movement, Munich
woodcut · distortion · angst · Weimar · avant-garde · modernist · primitivism · subjective · abstraction · bold color
emotive
Arousing strong feelings
bold · intense · distorted · jarring · vivid · anguished · turbulent · unrestrained · subjective · primal
Nosferatu
1922 German vampire film
- MetropolisHero's fictional American city
- chiaroscuroContrast technique in painting
- shadowLight blocked by object
Fritz Lang · silent era · German cinema · grotesque · angular · stylized · nightmare · theatrical · psychological · doppelganger
Kafka
Czech-Jewish literary surname
- fragmentationBreaking into smaller pieces
- alienationState of being isolated
- stream-of-consciousnessNarrative of unfiltered thought
nightmare · urban · dehumanization · grotesque · apocalyptic · revolt · subjective · despair · visionary · manifesto
Schoenberg
Atonal method inventor
- atonalWithout musical key
- dissonanceLack of harmony
- twelve-toneSerialism using all pitches
operatic · cacophony · dramatic · intensity · discord · modernist · Lulu · serial · chromatic · harsh
- Music PeriodsBaroque, Medieval, Renaissance, Contemporary
- architectureEiffel Tower, buildings, architects, design, thatching
- Nonconformistsnonconformist, rebels, rebel, misfits, misfit
- literary periodsRenaissance, medieval, Victorian, modern, contemporary
Expressionistrealist
One accepting hard truths
naturalistic · detached · objective · restrained · documentary
- Abstract ExpressionismGestural, nonrepresentational American painting movement
- German ExpressionismDistorted, emotionally intense art movement