Art Movement : Expressionism

Expressionism : Expressionism is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for emotional effect. Expressionism is exhibited in many art forms, including painting, literature, film, architecture and music. Additionally, the term often implies emotional angst - the number of cheerful expressionist works is relatively small.

Major Artists : * Wassily Kandinsky * Oskar Kokoschka * Franz Marc * Edvard Munch * Emil Nolde * Egon Schiele * Chaim Soutine * Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Art Movements List

Abstract Expressionism | Ancient & Classical Art | Art Deco | Art Nouveau | Arts & Crafts Movement | Ashcan School | Baroque | Bauhaus | Black Mountain College | Bloomsbury Group | Constructivism | Cubism | Dada | De Stijl | Der Blaue Reiter | Expressionism | Fauvism | Fluxus | Futurism | Group of Seven | Harlem Renaissance | Hudson River School | Impressionism | Indian River School | Mannerism | Medieval & Gothic Art | Minimalism | Modernism | Nabis | Neo-Classical | Neo-Expressionism | Op-Art | Pop Art | Post-Impressionism | Post-Modernism | Pre-Raphaelites | Realism | Renaissance | Rococo | Romanticism | Situationism | Surrealism | Symbolism

Artist Profiles

Brueghel, Pieter | Caravaggio | Chihuly, Dale | David, Jacques-Louis | Dufy, Raoul | Escher, M.C. | Gauguin, Paul | Klee, Paul | Wyeth, Andrew