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The German Expressionist painting style is arguably the very pinnacle of humankinds creative potential. With it's roots buried deep in emotion, it is a subjective art form that cuts away all of the excess and leaves you with the very purest form of human expression. As Edvard Munch put it "No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love." What Munch so perfectly verbalized is truly the core of what expressionism is. It is a style of painting that depicts real life feelings and real life emotions. German Expressionism / Expressionism can be best described as the artistic style in which the artist or creator depicts not a flat shallow and superficial reality but instead combines vivid images and expressive objects with passionate emotions. This is accomplished through the use of both literal and abstract emphasis of color, texture, obscured subject matter, primitivism, distortion, deconstruction of form, unnatural depth, obstruction, modified reality and surrounding imagery. The German Expressionist painters movement was predominantly formed by two groups of German painters known as Die Bruecke (The Bridge) and Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) in the early 20th century (1905-1945) with its epicenters in Germany and Austria. Unlike in Impressionism, the expressionist artist's goals are not to reproduce the impression suggested by the surrounding world but instead to depict his or her own interpretation of the event or object. According to Joseph Minton, "The expressionist artist displays an internalized depiction of reality and allows their personal and potentially biased emotions to impact that depiction. It is an art form that comes from the artists point of view. It is the one art form that truly allows the viewer to both see and feel the world through the eyes of the artist." It is said that Expressionism may not have ever taken it's current form with out the inspiration of the fathers of this art form who are most notably Vincent van Gough, Edvard Munch and Georges Rouault. German Expressionism / Expressionism is filled with famous and well known painters. Some of the most prestigious and highly regarded are Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde, Georges Rouault, Max Beckman, Egon Schiele, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Franz Marc, Gabriele Münter and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The Expressionist painting style has produced some of the worlds most profound paintings and is a style that is still widely produced today by such modern artist as Moin Shah and Joseph Minton. For more information on these artists please click on any one of their names for a short biography and or display of their work. If you would like to make a contribution of information or art to germanexpressionist.com then please send us an email at germanexpressionist@cox.net.
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