EXPRESSIONISM AND

NEO-PLASTICISM

-ZAINAB KABIRA

-KALYANI SETHI

-RISHIKESH WAGH

-RUTUMBARA K

"Everyone who renders directly and honestly

whatever drives him to create is one of us.“

-E.L KIRCHNER

EXPRESSIONISM (1905-1920)

• Expressionism, artistic style in which the artist seeks to

depict not objective reality but rather the subjective

emotions and responses that objects and events arouse

within a person.

• It is an intensely personal art form where the expressionist

artist strives to convey his personal feelings about the

object painted.

THE BEGINNING

They broke away from the

literal representation of nature

in order to express more

subjective outlooks or states of

mind. (1885-1900)

Vincent Van

Gogh

Edward Munch

James Ensor

CHARACTERISTICS OF

EXPRESSIONISM ART

• The artist accomplishes this aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism,

and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of

formal elements.

• In order to achieve maximum impact on the viewer, representational accuracy

is sacrificed.

• Many of their works express frustration, anxiety, disgust, discontent, violence,

and generally a sort of frenetic intensity of feeling in response to the ugliness,

the crude banality, and the possibilities and contradictions that they discerned

in modern life.

• Compositions tend to be simpler and more direct and are often characterized

by thick dark paints, free brush strokes and occasional symbolism .

THE SCREAM (1893)

artist: Edward Munch

• He depicts the battle between the individual

and society.

• The setting of The Scream was suggested to

the artist while walking along a bridge

overlooking.

• Munch recalls, "the sky turned as red as

blood. I stopped and leaned against the

fence...shivering with fear. Then I heard the

enormous, infinite scream of nature."

Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Conrat (1909)

Artist: Oskar Kokoschka

• The colorful background and

concentrated gestures of the

figures represent the couple as

"closed personalities so full of

tension," as the artist once called

them.

• As in many of his portraits,

Kokoschka focuses on the inner

drama of his subjects, here, using

the couple's nervous hands as a

focal point of their anxiety.

Large Blue Horses (1911)

Artist: Franz Marc

• Known for his use of animal

symbolism.

• For the artist, the movement away

from realistic depiction represented a

turn towards the spiritual, the

emotional, and the authentic.

• As with many Expressionists, color

was symbolic rather than descriptive

for Marc. He drew upon the emotive

qualities of his palette to convey his

vision of the spiritual blue beasts.

The style extended to a wide range of the arts,

including expressionist architecture, painting, literature,

theatre, dance, film and music.

EXPRESSIONISM IN ARCHITECTURE

Expressionism was an early 20th-century movement in art and architecture.

It developed between 1910 and 1924 among a group of architects from European countries including Germany, Austria, and Denmark.

It was a time of great turmoil and upheaval in Europe and many of the architects had fought on the battlefields of World War I. Their experiences greatly impacted their work and what they created looked like nothing that had come before it.

The architects who designed Expressionist buildings avoided traditional box shapes and resisted basing their designs on past historical styles. They tended toward abstraction, which means the designs weren't based on objects or structures seen in the real world.

Many prominent architects of the time, included Walter Gropius and Bruno Taut,

The EINSTIEN TOWER, Germany

• 1919 and 1921

• By architect Erich Mendelsohn.

• The building, a solar observatory, is made

of brick covered with cement.

• It's all curving edges and undulating forms

and seems almost to emerge from the

ground below it like some kind of organic or

scientific organism.

• And that's not an accident because it was

made to reflect Einstein's Theory of

Relativity, which changed the way people

thought about time and space.

• The Einstein Tower looks strikingly modern

for a building that's almost one hundred

years old.

Chilehaus

Between 1922 and 1924.

By architect Fritz Hödger.

constructed of reinforced concrete and brick.

The towering structure thrusts violently

skyward and seems to resemble the elongated

bow of a tall ship

THE END OF EXPRESSIONISM AS A

MOVEMENT..

• The decline of Expressionism was hastened by the vagueness of its longing for a better

world.

• By its use of highly poetic language, Expressionism was definitively killed by the

advent of the Nazis to power in 1933.

• They branded the work of almost all Expressionists as degenerate and forbade them to

exhibit or publish and eventually even to work.

• Many Expressionists went into exile in the United States and other countries.

NEOPLASTICIS

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Neo Plasticism is an art movement started from 1917.

It was found by Artist Piet Mondrian.

It is a form of abstract.

CHARACTERISTICS OF NEO

PLASTICISM:

Only geometric shapes to be used.

No natural element.

Main composition should be from straight lines i.e.. only

vertical and horizontal lines.

No curves. No diagonals. No circles.

Only primary colors, black, white and grey to be used.

No symmetry.

NEO PLASTICISM ARTISTS

PIET MONDRIAN – DUTCH PAINTER

THEO VAN DOESBURG – DUTCH PAINTER

PIET MONDRAIN WORKS

• He is best known for his abstract paintings.

• Asymmetric compositions.

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