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Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around 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.
It calls for a new 'total work of art', to be created with active participation of the people. Bruno Taut publishes Die Stadtkrone. 1919. Spring manifesto of Arbeitsrat für Kunst is published. Art for the masses. Alliance of the arts under the wing of architecture. 50 artists, architects and patrons join led by Bruno Taut, Walter Gropius and ...
The themes of Expressionism were integrated into later films of the 1920s and 1930s, resulting in an artistic control over the placement of scenery, light, etc., to enhance the mood of a film. This dark, moody school of filmmaking was brought to the United States when the Nazis gained power and many German film makers emigrated to Hollywood .
Vkhutemas – 1920 – 1926, Russia; Precisionism – c. 1920, United States; Surrealism – since 1920s, France Acéphale – 1936 – 1939, France; Lettrism – 1942 – Les Automatistes 1946 – 1951, Quebec, Canada; Devetsil – 1920 – 1931; Group of Seven – 1920 – 1933, Canada; Harlem Renaissance – 1920 – 1930s, United States
Expressionism on the American stage: Paul Green and Kurt Weill's Johnny Johnson (1936). Expressionism was a movement in drama and theatre that principally developed in Germany in the early decades of the 20th century. It was then popularized in the United States, Spain, China, the U.K., and all around the world.
1985 in art – Death of Marc Chagall, Jean Dubuffet, André Kertész, Ana Mendieta; Charles Saatchi's collection opens to the public arousing interest in Neo-expressionism 1984 in art – Death of Jimmy Ernst , Hollis Frampton , Ansel Adams , Sir Roland Penrose , Lee Krasner , Brassaï , Edward James
The Russian Avant-Garde of 1910–1920 and Issues of Expressionism. Moscow: Nauka, 2003. Rowell, M. and Zander Rudenstine A. Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the George Costakis Collection. New York: The Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, 1981. Shishanov V.A. Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art: a history of creation and a collection. 1918 ...
The Weimar Republic era began in the midst of several major movements in the fine arts that continued into the 1920s. German Expressionism had begun before World War I and continued to have a strong influence throughout the 1920s, although artists were increasingly likely to position themselves in opposition to expressionist tendencies as the ...