Five Women on the Street

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Five Women on the Street is an expressionist painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner that depicts a group of stylized, angular women in a tense urban nighttime scene, exemplifying the psychological intensity and distorted forms of German Expressionism.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Expressionist painting
painting
artHistoricalSignificance important example of Kirchner’s street scenes
key work of German Expressionism
artStyle Expressionism
Expressionism
surface form: German Expressionism
colorPalette contrasting colors
non-naturalistic colors
countryOfOrigin Germany
creator Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
culturalContext early 20th-century modernism
pre–World War I Germany
depicts angular figures
five women
nighttime scene
prostitutes
stylized figures
urban street
genre street scene painting
intendedEffect convey psychological disturbance
evoke unease
movement Expressionism
surface form: German Expressionism
periodInArtistCareer Die Brücke period
portrays psychological intensity
tense atmosphere
urban nightlife
relatedWorkOfArtist Potsdamer Platz
Street, Berlin
subjectMatter city street
streetwalkers
urban crowd
theme alienation
anxiety
modern urban life
psychological tension
sexuality
usesVisualStyle distorted forms
exaggerated colors
flattened space
sharp contours
visualCharacteristic compressed space
dynamic diagonals
elongated figures
mask-like faces

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner notableWork Five Women on the Street