Expressionism
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Expressionism is an early 20th-century modernist art movement characterized by the intense, subjective distortion of reality to convey emotional experience rather than physical accuracy.
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Target entity: Expressionism Context triple: [Post-Impressionism, influenced, Expressionism]
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Impressionism
Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterized by small, visible brushstrokes, open composition, and an emphasis on capturing light and fleeting moments in everyday scenes.
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Modernism
Modernism is a broad 20th-century cultural and artistic movement characterized by a deliberate break with traditional forms and an embrace of innovation, abstraction, and new technologies in art, architecture, literature, and design.
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Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism was a late 19th-century art movement that evolved from Impressionism and is characterized by more expressive color, symbolic content, and formal experimentation by artists such as Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne.
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Neo-Impressionism
Neo-Impressionism is a late 19th-century art movement characterized by the use of small, distinct dots or strokes of color and scientific color theory to create luminous, optically mixed images.
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Romanticism
Romanticism was a late 18th- and 19th-century artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that emphasized emotion, individualism, imagination, and a deep appreciation of nature and the sublime in reaction against Enlightenment rationalism and industrialization.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Expressionism Target entity description: Expressionism is an early 20th-century modernist art movement characterized by the intense, subjective distortion of reality to convey emotional experience rather than physical accuracy.
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Impressionism
Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterized by small, visible brushstrokes, open composition, and an emphasis on capturing light and fleeting moments in everyday scenes.
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B.
Modernism
Modernism is a broad 20th-century cultural and artistic movement characterized by a deliberate break with traditional forms and an embrace of innovation, abstraction, and new technologies in art, architecture, literature, and design.
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Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism was a late 19th-century art movement that evolved from Impressionism and is characterized by more expressive color, symbolic content, and formal experimentation by artists such as Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne.
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Neo-Impressionism
Neo-Impressionism is a late 19th-century art movement characterized by the use of small, distinct dots or strokes of color and scientific color theory to create luminous, optically mixed images.
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Romanticism
Romanticism was a late 18th- and 19th-century artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that emphasized emotion, individualism, imagination, and a deep appreciation of nature and the sublime in reaction against Enlightenment rationalism and industrialization.
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Statements (90)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
20th-century art movement
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art movement ⓘ cultural movement ⓘ modernist movement ⓘ |
| coreIdea | expressing inner feelings over depicting external reality accurately ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| declinePeriod | after World War I ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
anti-academic stance
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bold brushwork ⓘ distortion of form ⓘ emphasis on emotional experience ⓘ exaggerated color ⓘ inner experience over external reality ⓘ intense psychological content ⓘ rejection of naturalism ⓘ subjective representation of reality ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Abstract expressionism
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surface form:
Abstract Expressionism
Expressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Austrian Expressionism
Der Blaue Reiter ⓘ Die Brücke ⓘ Expressionist architecture ⓘ Expressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Expressionist cinema
Expressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Expressionist literature
Neo-Expressionism ⓘ |
| influenced |
Abstract expressionism
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surface form:
Abstract Expressionism
Expressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
German Expressionist cinema
Neo-Expressionism ⓘ film noir aesthetics ⓘ graphic novels and comics ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Edvard Munch
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Fauvism ⓘ James Ensor ⓘ Post-Impressionism ⓘ Symbolism ⓘ Vincent van Gogh ⓘ industrialization ⓘ psychology of Sigmund Freud ⓘ social anxiety before World War I ⓘ urbanization ⓘ |
| language | primarily German ⓘ |
| movementIn |
architecture
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film ⓘ literature ⓘ music ⓘ theatre ⓘ visual arts ⓘ |
| notableProponent |
August Macke
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Egon Schiele ⓘ Emil Nolde ⓘ Erich Heckel ⓘ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ⓘ Franz Marc ⓘ Gabriele Münter ⓘ George Grosz ⓘ Karl Schmidt-Rottluff ⓘ Lyonel Feininger ⓘ Max Beckmann ⓘ Oskar Kokoschka ⓘ Otto Dix ⓘ Paul Klee ⓘ Wassily Kandinsky ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Blue Horse I
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Self-Portrait with Physalis ⓘ Street, Berlin ⓘ Blue Horse I ⓘ
surface form:
The Large Blue Horses
The Night ⓘ The Scream ⓘ |
| opposedTo |
Impressionism
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Naturalism ⓘ Realism ⓘ |
| peakPeriod | circa 1905–1920 ⓘ |
| persecutedAs | degenerate art ⓘ |
| politicalContext |
Weimar Republic
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rise of Nazism ⓘ |
| relatedMovement |
Cubism
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Dada ⓘ Fauvism ⓘ Surrealism ⓘ Symbolism ⓘ |
| revival | Neo-Expressionism in the late 20th century ⓘ |
| startTime | early 20th century ⓘ |
| typicalSubject |
existential anxiety
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inner turmoil ⓘ religious themes ⓘ urban alienation ⓘ war and violence ⓘ |
| typicalTechnique |
angular forms
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impasto ⓘ non-naturalistic color ⓘ simplified shapes ⓘ |
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Subject: Expressionism Description of subject: Expressionism is an early 20th-century modernist art movement characterized by the intense, subjective distortion of reality to convey emotional experience rather than physical accuracy.
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