1) Art movement 2) Artistic movement 3) Expressionist theatre 4) Theatrical genre
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1) Neoexpressionism
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Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at 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. Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emot...
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[theatre] Expressionism is a modernist movement in drama and theatre that developed in Europe (principally Germany) in the early decades of the 20th century and later in the United States. It forms part of the broader movement of Expressionism in the arts. ==History== There was a concentrated Expressionist movement in early 20th century Ger...
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From Germany, it sought to portray the inner convictions of the artists
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In general, expressionism relates to the distortion of reality through the primary medium of symbols and styles with the intention of conveying the internal aspects or essence of a particular subject. Various mediums include painting, sculpture and theatre as well as film though the latter is primarily depicted in the genre of avant garde. (Also se...
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The tendency to distort reality for emotional effect or to convey emotional angst. Expressionism is exhibited in many art forms, including painting, literature, film, music and dance. The term was coined by Czech art historian Antonín Matejcek in 1910 as the opposite of impressionism. Some of the movement's leading painters were Wassily Kandinsky,...
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artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events ... [33 related articles]
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The broad term that describes emotional art, most often boldly executed and making free use of distortion and symbolic or invented color. More specifically, Expressionism refers to individual and group styles originating in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See also Abstract Expressionism.
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Refers to art that uses emphasis and distortion to communicate emotion. More specifically, it refers to early twentieth century northern European art, especially in Germany c. 1905-25. Artists such as Rouault, Kokoschka, and Schiele painted in this manner.
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Art in which the physical forms arise, not directly form observed reality, but form subjective reactions to reality. Also, any art in which conventional ideas of Realism and Proportion seem to have been overridden by the artist's emotion, with resultant caricatured, exaggerated distortions of shape and colour.
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Literary conviction that expression determines form and therefore dominates it, which means that any of the formal rules and elements of writing can be distorted to suit the needs of an author. Expressionism took place in the first quarter of the 20th century as a reaction towards realism and aimed to show man´s inner psychological realities. Many...
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Any art that stresses the artist`s emotional and psychological reaction to subject matter, often with bold colors and distortions of form. Specifically, an art style of the early 20
th century followed principally by certain German artists.
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A concept of painting in which traditional adherence to realism and proportion is secondary to the artist's emotional response to the subject.
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an aesthetic and artistic movement that distorted reality for enhanced or overexaggerated emotional effect. It can also apply to some literature; the works of Franz Kafka and Georg Kaiser are often said to be expressionistic, for example.
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a style of art falling between realism and abstraction, in which the artist tries to capture not what the observed world looks like but the emotional or intellectual response it evokes in the artist; many different types of works can be described as expressionistic, from recognizable but exaggerated depictions of scenes or figures to nearly abstrac...
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Truth (or beauty) isn’t what the eyes see, but what the mind projects. Showed the psyche of the main character rather than objective behavior. Peaked in the 1920s with Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape.
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Specifically, and with a capital letter, the term is associated with modern German art, particularly the Brücke and Blaue Reiter groups, but in this narrow sense is best referred to as German Expressionism. Expressionism as a general term refers to art in which the image of reality is more or less heavily distorted in form and colour in order to m...
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noun an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist`s subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality
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In aesthetics, the doctrine that artistic creation is primarily an expressive act, a process of clarifying and manifesting the impressions, emotions, intuitions, and attitudes of the artist. Such theories hold that art has its foundation in the experiences and feelings of its creator; it is a comment on the artist's soul, not on any external objec....
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(art) Style of painting and sculpture that expresses inner emotions; in particular, a movement in early 20th-century art in northern and central Europe. Expressionist artists tended to distort or exaggerate natural colour and appearance in order to describe an inner vision or emotion&#...
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(literature) Literary style which, like expressionism in art, attempts to portray the inner workings of a person's mind by, effectively, turning them `inside out` and allowing mental states to shape their face, body, and even the world in which they live. In theatre, expressionis...
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(music) In music, use of melodic or harmonic distortion for expressive effect, associated with Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith, Ernst Krenek, and others
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Atonal and violent style used as a means of evoking heightened emotions and states of mind.
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· (usually l.c.) a manner of painting, drawing, sculpting, etc., in which forms derived from nature are distorted or exaggerated and colors are intensified for emotive or expressive purposes. · a style of art developed in the 20th century, characterized chiefly by heavy, often black lines that define forms, sharply contrasting, often v...
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