Main features of expressionism. Expressionism in literature Expressionism in painting features

Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation

Nizhny Tagil State Social Pedagogical Academy

Faculty of Art Education

Department of Art Education

Course work:

Completed by: Vorobyova E.N. 3rd year student, Faculty of Economics.

Head: Bakhteeva L.A., Ph.D., Associate Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering

Nizhny Tagil

Introduction

Chapter I. The concept of expressionism

1 The essence of expressionism

1.2 Expressionist artists. Egon Schiele, as the most prominent representative of expressionism

Chapter II. Features of the image of a person

1 Expressive means in the depiction of a person by Egon Schiele

2 Female and male image in the works of Egon Schiele

3 My vision of a person in the style of expressionism

Conclusion

Bibliography

Application

Introduction

Although the term "expressionism" is widely used as a reference, in reality there was no specific artistic movement calling itself "expressionism." It is believed that expressionism originated in Germany, and the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche played an important role in its formation, drawing attention to previously undeservedly forgotten movements in ancient art. In the book “The Birth of Tragedy or Hellenism and Pessimism” (1871), Nietzsche sets out his theory of dualism, the constant struggle between two types of aesthetic experience, two principles in ancient Greek art, which he calls Apollonian and Dionysian. Nietzsche argues with the entire German aesthetic tradition, which optimistically interpreted ancient Greek art with its bright, essentially Apollonian beginning. For the first time he talks about another Greece - tragic, intoxicated with mythology, Dionysian, and draws parallels with the destinies of Europe. The Apollonian principle represents order, harmony, calm artistry and gives rise to plastic arts (architecture, sculpture, dance, poetry), the Dionysian principle is intoxication, oblivion, chaos, ecstatic dissolution of identity in the mass, giving birth to non-plastic art. The Apollonian principle opposes the Dionysian as the artificial opposes the natural, condemning everything excessive and disproportionate. However, these two principles are inseparable from each other and always act together. They fight, according to Nietzsche, in the artist, and both are always present in any work of art. Under the influence of Nietzsche's ideas, German (and after them other) artists and writers turn to the chaos of feelings, to what Nietzsche calls the Dionysian principle. In its most general form, the term "expressionism" refers to works in which strong emotions are expressed through artistic means, and this very expression of emotions, communication through emotions, becomes the main purpose of creating the work.

It is believed that the term “expressionism” itself was introduced by the Czech art historian Antonin Mateshek in 1910, as opposed to the term “impressionism”: “The expressionist wants, above all, to express himself. The expressionist denies the immediate impression and builds more complex mental structures. Impressions and mental images pass through the human soul as through a filter that frees them from everything superficial in order to reveal their pure essence and are combined, condensed into more general forms, types, which he, the author, rewrites them through simple formulas and symbols."

Expressionism is one of the most complex and controversial movements in the artistic culture of the first decades of the 20th century. Nowadays there is very great interest in the movement of “expressionism”. I was also interested in this movement, and I decided to study in more detail the history of the emergence of the movement, its development and representatives of expressionism. My attention was attracted by one of the brightest representatives of this trend, Egon Schiele, but there is very little information about him and it is rare, because in Russia it is poorly known. That is why the study of this topic should be given special attention.

Object of study: Expressionist artists. Egon Schiele, as the most prominent representative of expressionism.

Subject of study: Expressive means in the image of a person by Egon Schiele.

Purpose of the study:reveal the history of the emergence and development of the direction of “expressionism”, identify the features of Egon Schiele’s means of expression when conveying plastic arts and human images

Tasks:

-reveal the essence of expressionism;

-get acquainted with the most prominent representatives of expressionism;

-consider the features of Egon Schiele’s work;

-explore the features of the image of a person using various expressive means based on the works of Egon Schiele;

-develop a series of works reflecting my vision of a person in the style of expressionism.

1. The concept of expressionism.

.1 The essence of expressionism

Expressionism (from lat. expressio, “expression”) is a movement in European art of the modernist era, which received its greatest development in the first decades of the 20th century, mainly in Germany and Austria. Expressionism strives not so much to reproduce reality, but to express the emotional state of the author. It is represented in a variety of artistic forms, including painting, literature, theater, architecture, music and dance. This is the first artistic movement to fully manifest itself in cinema.

Expressionism arose as an acute, painful reaction to the ugliness of capitalist civilization, the First World War and revolutionary movements. The generation, traumatized by the carnage of the World War, perceived reality extremely subjectively, through the prism of such emotions as disappointment, anxiety, and fear. They contrasted the aestheticism and naturalism of the older generation with the idea of a direct emotional impact on the public. For expressionists, the subjectivity of the creative act is paramount. The principle of expression prevails over image. Motives of pain and screaming are very common.

Expressionism is characterized by the principle of an all-encompassing subjective interpretation of reality, which prevailed over the world of primary sensory sensations, as was the case in the first modernist movement - impressionism. Hence the tendency of expressionism towards abstraction, heightened and ecstatic, emphasized emotionality, mysticism, fantastic grotesque and tragedy.

The art of expressionism was inevitably socially oriented, as it developed against the backdrop of sharp socio-political changes, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the First World War.

However, it would be wrong to think that expressionism is only an art direction. Expressionism was an extreme expression of the very essence of that time, the quintessence of the ideology of the pre-war, war and first post-war years, when the entire culture was deformed before our eyes. Expressionism reflected this deformation of cultural values. Perhaps its main feature was that the object in it was subjected to a special aesthetic influence, as a result of which the effect of a characteristic expressionist deformation was achieved. The most important thing in the object was extremely sharpened, resulting in the effect of a specific expressionist distortion. We call the path that expressionism took logaedization, the essence of which is that the system is tightened to the limit, thereby demonstrating its absurdity.

There is an opinion that the phenomenon of expressionism was Freud's classical psychoanalysis. This is evidenced by the very pathos of the deformation of the original “Victorian” ideas about a person’s happy and cloudless childhood, which Freud turned into a nightmarish sexual drama. In the spirit of expressionism, a very in-depth look into the human soul, in which there is nothing bright; finally, the gloomy doctrine of the unconscious. Without a doubt, close attention to the phenomenon of dreams also links psychoanalysis with expressionism.

So, at the center of the artistic universe of expressionism is the tormented soullessness of the modern world, its contrasts of living and dead, spirit and flesh, “civilization” and “nature,” the material and spiritual heart of man. In expressionism, the “landscape of a shocked soul” appears as shocks to reality itself. The transformation of reality, for which many expressionists passionately called, had to begin with the transformation of human consciousness. The artistic consequence of this thesis was the equalization of the rights of the internal and external: the shock of the hero, the “landscape of the soul” were presented as shocks and transformations of reality. Expressionism did not involve exploring the complexity of life processes; many works were thought of as proclamations. The art of left-wing expressionism is essentially agitational: not a “many-faced”, full-blooded picture of reality (cognition) embodied in tactile images, but a sharpened expression of an idea important to the author, achieved through any exaggeration and conventions.

Expressionism set the global paradigm for the aesthetics of the twentieth century, the aesthetics of searching for the boundaries between fiction and illusion, text and reality. These searches were never successful because, most likely, such boundaries either do not exist at all, or there are as many of them as there are subjects who are searching for these boundaries.

Since the end of the 19th century. German culture has developed a special view of a work of art. It was believed that it should carry only the will of the creator, created “out of internal necessity,” which does not need comments or justifications. At the same time, a revaluation of aesthetic values took place. There was an interest in the works of Gothic masters, El Greco, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The artistic merits of the exotic art of Africa, the Far East, and Oceania were rediscovered. All this was reflected in the formation of a new movement in art.

Expressionism is an attempt to show the inner world of a person, his experiences, as a rule, at the moment of extreme spiritual tension. The expressionists considered the French post-impressionists, the Swiss Ferdinand Hodler, the Norwegian Edvard Munch, and the Belgian James Ensor to be their predecessors. There were many contradictions in expressionism. Loud declarations about the birth of a new culture, it would seem, did not fit well with the equally fierce preaching of extreme individualism, with the rejection of reality for the sake of immersion in subjective experiences. And besides, the cult of individualism was combined with a constant desire to unite.

The first significant milestone in the history of expressionism is considered to be the emergence of the association “Bridge” (German: Bracke). In 1905, four architecture students from Dresden - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleil, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff created a kind of medieval guild commune - lived and worked together. The name “Bridge” was proposed by Schmidt-Rottluff, believing that it expresses the group’s desire to unite all new artistic movements, and in a deeper sense symbolizes its work - a “bridge” to the art of the future. In 1906, they were joined by Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Fauvist Kees van Dongen and other artists.

Although the association appeared immediately after the performance of the Parisian Fauves at the Autumn Salon, representatives of the Bridge claimed that they acted independently. In Germany, as in France, the natural development of the visual arts led to a change in artistic methods. The expressionists also renounced chiaroscuro and the transfer of space. The surface of their canvases seems to have been treated with a rough brush without any care for grace. Artists were looking for new, aggressive images, trying to express anxiety and discomfort through painting. Color, the expressionists believed, has its own meaning, is capable of evoking certain emotions, and was attributed symbolic meaning.

The first exhibition of "Most" took place in 1906 in the premises of a lighting equipment factory. This and subsequent exhibitions were of little interest to the public. Only the 1910 exposition was provided with a catalogue. But since 1906, Most annually published so-called folders, each of which reproduced the work of one of the group members.

Gradually, the members of the "Bridge" moved to Berlin, which became the center of artistic life in Germany. Here they exhibited in the Sturm gallery.

In 1913, Kirchner published “Chronicle of the artistic association “Bridge””. It provoked sharp disagreement from the rest of the “Bridge” members, who felt that the author had overestimated his own role in the group’s activities. As a result, the association officially ceased to exist. Meanwhile, for each of these artists, participation in the “Bridge” group turned out to be an important milestone in their creative biography.

The rapid rise of expressionism was determined by the rare correspondence of the new direction to the characteristic features of the era. Its heyday is short-lived. A little more than a decade has passed, and the direction has lost its former significance. However, in a short period of time, expressionism managed to declare itself a new world of colors, ideas, and images.

In 1910, a group of expressionist artists led by Pechstein split from the Berlin Secession and formed the New Secession. In 1912, the Blue Rider group was formed in Munich, whose ideologist was Wassily Kandinsky. There is no consensus among experts regarding the attribution of “The Blue Rider” to expressionism. The artists of this association are little concerned about the crisis state of society, their works are less emotional. Lyrical and abstract notes form a new harmony in their works, while the art of expressionism is by definition disharmonious.

When relative stability was established in the Weimar Republic after 1924, the vagueness of the Expressionist ideals, their complicated language, individualism of artistic manners, and inability to constructive social criticism led to the decline of this movement. With Hitler's rise to power in 1933, expressionism was declared "degenerate art" and its representatives lost the opportunity to exhibit or publish their work.

Nevertheless, individual artists continued to work within the framework of expressionism for many decades. Pasty, sharp, nervous strokes and disharmonious, broken lines distinguish the works of the largest expressionists of Austria - O. Kokoschka and E. Schiele. In search of the highest emotional expressiveness, French artists Georges Rouault and Chaim Soutine sharply deform the figures of their subjects. Max Beckmann presents scenes of bohemian life in a satirical manner with a touch of cynicism.

Of the major representatives of the movement, only Kokoschka (1886-1980) witnessed the revival of general interest in expressionism in the late 1970s.

1.2 Expressionist artists. Egon Schiele, as the most prominent representative of expressionism

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The desire for “expression,” heightened self-expression, intense emotions, grotesque fractures, and irrationality of images was most clearly manifested in the culture of Germany and Austria. The most prominent artists were:

August Macke

One of the brightest representatives of German expressionism. August Macke showed interest in painting while still in his parents' house. In 1904, his first album of sketches appeared. In total, there were 78 of them in Macke’s short life. At this time, August Macke became acquainted with the work of Arnold Böcklin, but over time, the degree of his influence on Macke’s creative development decreased. In the album following his trip to Italy in 1905, Macke’s sketches were significantly simplified and reflect the artist’s experiments with light. Macke's paintings during this period were made with a small number of dark tones.

In Basel, Mack became acquainted with the work of the Impressionists, an artistic movement virtually unknown at that time in Germany. Macke's first paintings reflect the results of the artist's creative processing of the ideas of impressionism. During one of his first trips to Paris, Macke was especially struck by Manet's paintings. His sketchbook was replenished with drawings from the life of the city on the Seine. The influence of Toulouse-Lautrec on Maquet is also obvious. Macke later studied with Lovis Corinth. During this short training period, 15 sketchbooks of Make's sketches appeared. The main themes for them were theatre, cafes and people of the city.

As in Paris, in Berlin Macke spends time in museums, studying Renaissance art and 19th-century painting. By 1909, Macke had formed a wide circle of acquaintances in the artistic community. Macke founded the Blue Rider artist community. Since 1911, Macke has not only been an artist. His extensive connections among artists and museum management around the world allowed him to organize exhibitions. Works by Paul Klee, Kandinsky and representatives of the Brücke (Bridge) art community were exhibited thanks to Mack.

Macke’s works also participated in the second exhibition of “The Blue Rider” at the Munich Hans Goltz Gallery in 1912. Thanks to the artist’s friendly relations with the French artist Robert Delaunay, Macke became acquainted with abstract painting. In 1913 Macke moved to Switzerland. This year has been extremely productive for him. In his works dedicated to man and nature, one can feel the influence of many artists.

Together with Paul Klee and Louis Mollier, Macke made a short trip to Tunisia, during which a large number of the artist's iconic watercolors appeared. The sketches and photographs made during the trip served as the basis for the oil paintings he later painted. Macke often traveled to the southern Black Forest, which inspired his work. Macke's last painting, entitled "Farewell" [see Appendix 1], turned out to be prophetic. On August 8, 1914, Macke was drafted into the army and died in action on September 26 at the age of 27.

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso is a Spanish artist and sculptor who lived in France since 1904. Picasso is an inventor of new forms of painting, an innovator of styles and techniques, and one of the most prolific artists in history. Picasso created more than 20 thousand works.

Born in Malaga on October 25, 1881. He studied painting first with his father X. Ruiz, then at schools of fine arts: in La Coruña (1894-1895), Barcelona (1895) and Madrid (1897-1898). In 1901 - 1904, Picasso creates paintings of the so-called “blue period”, which are painted in a range of blue, light blue and green tones; in 1905 - 1906, works with a predominance of golden-pink and pink-gray shades appeared (the “pink period”). Both of these cycles of paintings are devoted to the theme of the tragic loneliness of disadvantaged people, the life of traveling comedians. In 1907, Pablo Picasso created the painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", which marked the beginning of Picasso's transition from realistic traditions to avant-garde. Soon Picasso founded a new direction in his work - cubism, which was largely facilitated by the artist's passion for African sculpture. Pablo Picasso divides an object into its component geometric elements, thereby turning reality into a game of abstract details. Later, Picasso begins experiments with texture; he uses, for example, scraps of newspapers and other objects in his works. The period of cubism in the work of Pablo Picasso ends with such works as “A Bottle of Aperitif” (1913) and “Three Musicians” (1921). Subsequently, neoclassical tendencies arose in Picasso’s work; graceful lines predominate in his works (“Three Women at the Source” (1921), “Mother and Child” (1922)). Beginning in 1936, Picasso’s work reflected contemporary events (“The Weeping Woman” (1937), “The Cat and the Bird” (1939)), Picasso became a member of the Popular Front in France, and participated in the struggle of the Spanish people against fascist aggression. Pablo Picasso creates a series of works “The Dreams and Lies of General Franco”, the monumental work “Guernica” (1937) [see Appendix 2]. In Picasso's subsequent works, anti-war subjects occupy a large place; in 1947 he created the famous "Dove of Peace", and in 1952 his works "Peace" and "War" appeared.

Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall - graphic artist, painter, theater artist, illustrator, master of monumental and applied arts; a native of Russia. One of the leaders of the world avant-garde of the 20th century, Chagall managed to organically combine the ancient traditions of Jewish culture with cutting-edge innovation. Born in Vitebsk on June 24. All of Chagall's work is initially autobiographical and lyrically confessional. Already in his early paintings, themes of childhood, family, death, deeply personal and at the same time “eternal” dominate ("Saturday", 1910). Over time, the theme of the artist’s passionate love for his first wife, Bella Rosenfeld (“Above the City,” 1914-1918), comes to the fore. Characteristic are the motifs of the “shtetl” landscape and everyday life, coupled with the symbolism of Judaism (“Gates of the Jewish Cemetery”, 1917).

However, looking at the archaic, including the Russian icon and popular print (which had a great influence on him), Chagall joins futurism and predicts future avant-garde movements. Grotesque and illogical subjects, sharp deformations and surreal-fairy-tale color contrasts of his canvases ("Me and the Village", 1911 [see Appendix 3]; "Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers", 1911-1912) have a great influence on the development of surrealism. As he reaches the peak of fame, his style - generally surreal - expressionistic - becomes easier and more relaxed. Not only the main characters, but also all the elements of the image float, forming constellations of colored visions.

Kandinsky Wassily

Kandinsky Vasily - Russian and German artist, art theorist and poet, one of the leaders of the avant-garde of the first half of the 20th century; became one of the founders of abstract art. From 1897 he lived in Munich, where he studied at the local Academy of Arts under the direction of Franz von Stuck. He traveled extensively throughout Europe and North Africa (1903-1907); from 1902, Wassily Kandinsky lived mainly in Munich, and in 1908-1909 in the village of Marnau (Bavarian Alps). From the early, already quite bright impressionist paintings-studies, he moved on to compositions that were bravura, flowery and “folklore” in color, which summed up the characteristic motifs of Russian national modernism with its romance of medieval legends and ancient manor culture (the paintings “Motley Life” [see Appendix 4 ], “Ladies in Crinolines” and others). Wassily Kandinsky believed that it is best expressed by the direct psychophysical impact of pure colorful harmonies and rhythms. The basis of the artist’s subsequent “impressions,” “improvisations,” and “compositions” (as Kandinsky himself distinguished the cycles of his works) is the image of a beautiful mountain landscape, as if melting into the clouds, into cosmic oblivion, as the contemplating author-viewer soars in his mind. The dramaturgy of oil and watercolor paintings is built through the free play of color spots, dots, lines, and individual symbols.

Léger Fernand

Fernand Léger is a French expressionist artist. Born in 1881 in France, in Argentan. Leger received a two-year architectural education, and later was a free student at the School of Fine Arts in Paris. Since 1910, Léger has been an active participant in the Salon des Independants. His early paintings ("Nudes in the Forest", "Seated Woman") were painted in the style of cubism. Together with Braque and the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, Léger played an important role in the formation and spread of Cubism. Léger's participation in the First World War influenced the style of his subsequent work. In his paintings, Léger began to use many technocratic symbols, depicting his objects and people in urban, technogenic forms. "City" is one of his most remarkable paintings in this regard. Leger's works had an important influence on the formation of neoplasticism in the Netherlands and constructivism in the Soviet Union. In the mid-twentieth century, Léger was successful both as an artist of decorative and applied arts and as a sculptor. He also used the principles of constructivism to create mosaics, ceramics and tapestries. In his final paintings, Léger used highlighting and overlaying monochrome color in composition. "The Big Parade", one of his last paintings, is a monumental example of this original style.

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele is an Austrian artist, one of the best masters of European Art Nouveau. [See Appendix 5] He studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts (1906-1909), where, under the influence of Gustav Klimt, he turned to the erotic theme. Schiele's works are dominated by portraits and, after becoming acquainted with the work of Van Gogh in 1913, landscapes. Egon Schiele's paintings and graphics, marked by nervous color contrasts, sophisticated flexible designs and dramatic eroticism, are a mixture of Art Nouveau and Expressionism.

Strongly influenced by the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud, Schiele gave free rein to his own complexes and doubts in his work. Egon Schiele's artistic career was short but fruitful, and many of his works were overtly sexual in nature. This even led to the artist’s imprisonment for “creating immoral drawings.” In 1912-1916, Schiele exhibited widely and successfully - his works were exhibited in Vienna, Budapest, Munich, Prague, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Zurich, Hagen, Dresden, Berlin, Rome, Cologne, Brussels, and Paris. In 1917 he returned to Vienna. After Klimt's death in the spring of 1918, Schiele began to lay claim to the role of Austria's greatest artist. The most striking works of Egon Schiele are: “Seated Woman”, 1917; "Young Mother", 1914; "Love", 1917; “Self-portrait”, 1912; "Family", 1918, etc. Schiele creates his own style, focusing almost exclusively on the contour. The decorative outlines of the bodies in his numerous “nudes” were especially expressive. Schiele’s model was often his sister Gertrude (“Gertie”), to whom, as they claimed, he experienced a strong emotional, and by no means only family, attraction. The extraordinary nervousness of every stroke of his paintings evoked strong emotions in the viewer, and contemplating them is always very difficult, and sometimes even painful.

Thanks to his sharp, nervous style, Schiele is considered one of the most important representatives of expressionism. The artist’s legacy includes about 300 paintings and several thousand drawings. The world's most complete collection of works by Egon Schiele (250 paintings and graphic works) is located in the Leopold Museum in Vienna. Many monographs, articles and even two novels have been written about Egon Schiele (“Harrogance” by Joana Scott and “The Pornographer from Vienna” by Lewis Crofts), and in 1981 a feature film “Egon Schiele - Life as an Excess” was made about him (co-produced by Germany, France and Austria).

Schiele died very young from influenza, at the moment when his work received recognition.

The work of expressionist artists expressed a protest against the ugliness and imperfection of bourgeois civilization; reality in it was displayed subjectively, fantastically grotesque, exaggeratedly emotional and deliberately irrational, which distinguished the new direction from impressionism, in which the basis of the artistic image was the world of primary sensory sensations. The boundaries between the characters in the paintings and the environment that surrounded them were destroyed. Expressionism increasingly opposes aestheticism and naturalism, asserting the idea of thickening the motives of pain and screaming, heightened affectivity, and a direct emotional impact on a person’s deep subconscious. In the work of expressionist artists, the principle of expressing emotions prevails over the image itself. The artistic language was determined by the installation of a unique intuitive barbaric spontaneity: heavy masses of impasto brushstrokes placed on coarse-grained canvases in black frames. The paintings express a premonition of some kind of horror through the deformation of objects, natural forms, as if everything that seemed unshakable is destroyed and discredited.

2. Features of the image of a person

.1 Expressive means in the image of a person by Egon Schiele

Throughout Egon Schiele's entire career, the self-portrait remained an indispensable motif that constantly came to the fore. The artist created about a hundred of his own images. The painter observes himself very closely, studying the object with manic persistence. He loved to depict himself, his appearance and his poses. Gestures in Schiele's self-portraits are often deliberate and unnatural, and between the artist's individuality and her image there is often a tense alienation, similar to confrontation and rejection of a mirror image. This can be seen in the “Self-Portrait” of 1914 [see. Appendix 6]. The white background of the sheet is absolutely neutral. The master, working with a hard line and flashy color, deprives his body of confidence and gives his movements a sharp, nervous character. The outlines of the figure are irregular and angular. A single bright, flashy orange tone enhances the expression. Schiele, as a portrait painter, is of little interest in external physical form and is not at all interested in such categories as harmony and beauty. But the image depicted has an internal, deep similarity with the model.

Any image made by hand using graphic means - a contour line, a stroke, a spot. Various combinations of these means (combinations of strokes, combinations of spots and lines, etc.) in a drawing achieve plastic modeling, tonal and light-and-shadow effects of the drawing, as a rule, done in one color or with a more or less organic use of different colors. Egon Schiele, with the help of lines and color, conveys very brightly and ironically the plasticity of the human body. As a more expressive means, the line acts as a stroke, which in the same drawing can be thicker, thinner, shorter, longer, not be a continuous line, but interrupted or, conversely, lie close to each other, creating the impression of a shadow. For example, E. Schiele interestingly depicts the peculiar texture of the model’s clothing. Using lines, the artist conveys the position of an object in space and the change in its shape from different angles.

The line helps to clearly highlight one part of the object, and to dissolve the other part, making it unnoticeable, etc. Egon Schiele uses aggressive, broken lines to convey the movement and plasticity of the human body. Non-standard angles reveal to the viewer a new look at the human body. An artist, depicting the relationship of light and shadow in a drawing, can better convey the volume and features of the form. Color is also used by the artist to highlight the main thing. E. Schiele uses contrasts of color combinations to show the main thing even more clearly. Color is a means of truly reflecting reality, but it does not act in isolation, but in conjunction with the composition, the line of the drawing, revealing and enhancing the content of the picture.

Most of Egon Schiele's works feature nude models. For Schiele, nudity is the most radical form of self-expression, not because the body is exposed, but because the self is fully revealed. On the one hand, this is a demonstration, and on the other, the isolation of one’s own bodily “I” is accompanied by a refusal to designate in space in a self-portrait. Schiele, as it were, mutilates the body, depicting only the torso, arms without hands, legs without feet, it is clear how little of him as a portraitist is concerned with the external physical form. Looking at some of Shipe's self-portraits made after 1910, it becomes clear that the artist viewed them as a concrete artistic realization of spiritual substance. Although, of course, it would be wrong, when looking at nude self-portraits, not to note the moment of narcissism and exhibitionism. The nude artist, after all, puts himself on display as a sexual being. However, this explanation does not seem to be entirely comprehensive regarding his nude self-portraits. Schiele's friends do not at all describe him as an unbridled erotomaniac; and in his frequent unsightly, tortured nudity, excessive emphasis on the erotic principle would be a mistake. What seems more important (and what is confirmed in his letters and poems) is the fact that Schiele attached great importance to understanding and studying the self. To explore one's self always means to imagine oneself as duality, since the subject doing the research is also the volume. Schiele tried to counteract the sensory fragmentation of his own “I”, conveying its multiplicity. Thus, it gradually formed into a visual concept that helped him reconnect with the world.

2.2 Female and male images in the works of Egon Schiele

One of the most fascinating and, oddly enough, new subjects of modern human vision is the human body. Just a few decades ago, only biologists studied it, and even those were interested not so much in the body as a whole, but in its individual organs and their natural functions. To be naked means to be yourself, natural, without embellishment. To be naked is to be exposed. For a naked body to become naked, it must be seen as an object, objectified. "The naked reveals itself. Nakedness is exposed, the naked is condemned to never be naked. Nakedness is a form of clothing" (John Berger).

The fine art of a turning point is looking not only for new forms, but also for content. A new view of the world, the surrounding reality and the individual appears. A peculiar refraction of the image of a woman of the twentieth century is reflected in the work of Egon Schiele. The artist is trying not only to depict a modern person, but also to find his ideal. This gives rise to a series of brilliant self-portraits, images of femme fatales, a constant change of style and a search for something new. E. Schiele paints portraits. Portrait of Valerie Neuzel, (1912).[See Appendix 7]. On the one hand, the lightness and innocence that soft pink tones give to the portrait, but on the other, anxiety and thoughtfulness, which can be barely noticeable, opens a gallery of portraits by E. Schiele, which will have these features.

Painting “Seated Woman”, (1917). [see Appendix 8] is symbolic. This is the image of the "femme fatale".

The theme of the “femme fatale” is continued by the paintings: “Nude” (1910); "Woman in Green Stockings" (1917); "Woman Squatting" (1910); "Seated Nude" (1914); "Reclining Woman" (1917). They are the destroyers of men. The author shows that a powerful destructive force comes from the “femme fatale”.

One of the most dazzling portraits is considered to be “Seated Woman with Left Hand in Hair” (1914) [see Appendix 9]. I would call him the embodiment of the Schiele ideal - self-confident, a little narcissistic, but at the same time charming and sweet, she is amazing in her depth.

An attempt to understand the feminine essence is reflected in the canvas “Intertwined Women” [see Appendix 10]. The two intertwined girls represent a single whole, where no man can enter. They circle in the endless stream of consciousness of the author. There is a feeling of calm and a sense of harmony rather than ecstasy. This picture most likely speaks about the state of the author’s soul. The women of this plot are a reflection of the hidden, unconscious, sexual desire of a man (Freud's It). And the interweaving of women’s bodies speaks of their mystery and unknownness.

A provocative and interesting look that reflects the essence of female nature is the painting “Young Mother” (1914). [See Appendix 11]. The pattern of the painting with black, square inserts in the upper corners speaks of the incompleteness of existence for the entire weak half of humanity. The child clings to the mother's chest. Their bodies are full of life and freshness.

Another famous creation is “Love” (1917).[See Appendix 12]. If earlier a man was absent or represented a negative charge: something contrasting and incompatible with the feminine principle, now the author shows harmony, the merging of two opposites. Man and woman are fused together, it is difficult to draw a line between them. This is not only physical, but also spiritual closeness of two people who are able to resist evil, giving birth to goodness, love and new life.

As mentioned above, Egon Schiele often painted self-portraits. A considerable part of his works is himself. A series of portraits from 1910 [see Appendix 13], filled with anxiety, severity, body movements are sharp and unexpected. E. Schiele shows himself in various emotional states. The painting “Self-portrait with clasped hands” (1910) personifies the calm, thoughtfulness of the hero, the process of self-awareness proceeds.

But basically E. Schiele imagines himself with more vivid emotions, such as: anger, anger, indignation, hatred, resentment, anger, annoyance, irritation, vindictiveness, insult, belligerence, rebellion, resistance, loneliness.

Almost all of Schiele’s works are permeated with rays of sensual, and sometimes, in the words of many, too frank eroticism. E. Schiele was often accused of frankness or even pornography, of bringing to a wide audience something that many did not even dare to talk about. His self-portraits are much more universal than personal. For Schiele, a contemporary of Freud, a self-portrait was not a mirror capturing an external reflection, but a means to penetrate the most intimate areas of the subconscious. Schiele the artist relates to Schiele the model like a psychoanalyst with a patient, painfully and scrupulously studying every feature of what constitutes the elusive image of our “I”. Schiele was frighteningly frank in his studies - very often he depicted himself naked, closely examining his thin body, and some of his self-portraits are shocking even to a modern viewer.

With the same fury and expression, with the same frenzy and penetration into the hidden essence of nature, he painted portraits of women and nude female nature.

Egon Schiele's paintings are unusually graphic. He always uses a contrast of light and dark, which immediately strikes and attracts the eye. People in Schiele's paintings are not only without clothes - they are without skin. Their bodies, arms twisted, open to the world and to pain, are broken, twisted inside and out. Inside a person, even in the midst of summer, is an autumn tree. The branches of a tree are broken on the outside, but those of a person are broken on the inside. Branches are cracks in the sky and stone. Nerves are cracks in the body. Some art historians believe that all of Schiele’s works, including landscapes and city views, express the artist’s emotional experiences and are incredibly “self-portraits.”

This is how Schiele creates a new ideal of beauty in the 20th century, fundamentally different, for example, from secession and symbolism - this is the beauty of the ugly. With her acquisition, Egon moved forward and became one of the pillars of Art Nouveau, along with the German Expressionists and the Austrian Kokoschka.

While still a completely young man, Egon Schiele comes to the conviction that death and illness, suffering and poverty, dystrophy heighten the sense of the value of life and beauty.

In an expressive manner, Schiele blurs the boundaries between health and illness, between life and the approach of death. The highest, most soulful beauty lights up on the border of life and death. The fate of beauty is to bloom, to get sick, and it celebrates its triumph at the moment when it is “distorted.” “Alles ist lebend tot” (“living, everything is dead”) - the meaning of these words by Egon Schiele is that death nests in the living. But death within life enhances the brightness of the latter. There was a time when, with the permission of familiar doctors, the artist made drawings even in a gynecological clinic, because pregnant women for him are a symbol of unity between life, even the double life of mother and fetus, and the threat of death. Since 1913, in his numerous sketches, Schiele has developed a deeply individual manner of depicting naked or semi-nude female models, which are now considered his best works. [see Appendix 14] These works are characterized by a complex, eccentrically constructed pose of the model, which the artist sees at a very close distance from above or below. Schiele's women clearly show themselves under their raised robes. In addition, Schiele liked to leave some parts of the body unfinished, which enhances the shocking sensations for the viewer.

In 1918, Schiele was invited to participate in the 49th exhibition of the Vienna Secession. For her, Schiele designed an emblem reminiscent of the Last Supper, with his own portrait instead of Christ. The artist's works were exhibited in the main hall and were a huge success. Despite the war, prices for Schiele's paintings and drawings rose, and with them the number of orders, especially for portraits, grew. By that time, the artist had almost abandoned experiments with formal painting. His paintings came closer to the classical norms of beauty: the human bodies in the paintings became more plastic and harmonious, the colors softer “Family” (1918).

2.3 My vision of a person in the style of expressionism

Being an artist is a big challenge, and it means that you have a mission in life, you must explore, study, be in search all the time. My works distort the usual vision of soul and body. In the process of creating work, my primary effort is to maintain the right balance between my vision and personality. I also believe that my work is an interpretation, a way of transferring fantasies and experiences onto canvas through the image of a person. The naked human figure has always attracted my attention. I think because in this I can directly express my feelings and views, and give the body any shape. In my opinion, there is no "ugly" or "beautiful" nude. Everyone finds their own beauty, sometimes even in what most consider ugly.

Constant doubt and the search for the ideal is the essence of my work. This is basically the purpose of art - to doubt, to modify reality, creating a new sensory reality, free from generally accepted views. I am trying to express, the embodiment of the disordered state of human nature, using my own characteristic way. I distort, disfigure and stretch the normal shape in space, thereby giving it my own dimension, a prism. The figures are suspended within time, strictly frozen and in various emotional states. I’m trying to convey the stressful cry of despair that I pour into my images, to show the different emotional states of a person’s soul. When creating works, I strive to develop an unrealistic style, with elements of expressionism: a series of works “Labyrinth of the Soul” [see Appendix 15]

Conclusion

Summarizing all of the above, it seems possible to formulate the following conclusions.

§ Expressionism is a modernist movement in Western European art, mainly in Germany, in the first third of the 20th century, which emerged in a certain historical period - on the eve of the First World War. The ideological basis of expressionism was an individualistic protest against the ugly world, the increasing alienation of man from the world, a feeling of homelessness, collapse, and the collapse of those principles on which European culture seemed to rest so firmly.

§ Expressionism sets itself the task not so much of reproducing reality, but of expressing the emotional experiences generated by this reality. Among the common techniques are various displacements, exaggerations, simplifications, the use of piercing, inflamed colors and tense, sharp contours.

§ Egon Schiele is an Austrian artist, one of the best masters of expressionism. Pasty, sharp, nervous strokes and disharmonious, broken lines distinguish the works of E. Schiele. Using non-standard means of expression, E. Schiele represents the human body and soul. The outlines of the figure are irregular and angular. Egon Schiele's paintings are unusually graphic. He always uses a contrast of light and dark, which immediately strikes and attracts the eye. People in Schiele's paintings are not only without clothes - they are without skin. Their bodies, arms twisted, open to the world and to pain, are broken, twisted inside and out.

§ A series of works was developed that reflected my personal understanding of the image of the human body and soul. Image is a complex and multidimensional process. The image consists of the received ideas, which are formed on the basis of the impressions received, including their accumulation and processing. The image is formed on the basis of perception, sensory cognition, emotional state, and imagination. When forming an image in the mind and transferring information to the canvas, deep comprehension and spiritual processing of perceptions and ideas occurs, in accordance with views and ideals. In the future, the presented series will be developed for the practical implementation of the thesis.

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I would never have thought that we owe the emergence of horror films as a genre to the artistic style of expressionism. With a fairly innocuous name, this style contains emotions such as pain, disappointment and fear. Expressionism was born by time itself at the beginning of the twentieth century, as a response to the painful manifestations of the then reality. With the help of a brush, artists combined their protest with an expression of mystical horror at the chaos of existence. Hence the tendency towards irrationality, heightened emotionality and fantastic grotesquery characteristic of this style.

(from Latin expressio, “expression”) is a movement in European art that received its greatest development in the first decades of the twentieth century, mainly in Germany and Austria. strives not so much to display the surrounding world as to express the emotional state of the author through artistic means.

Expressionism arose as an acute, painful reaction to the deformities of capitalist civilization, the First World War and revolutionary movements. The generation traumatized by the carnage of the World War perceived reality extremely subjectively, through the prism of such emotions as disappointment, anxiety, and fear. Motives of pain and screaming are very common.

Expressionism sets itself the task not so much of reproducing reality, but of expressing the emotional experiences generated by this reality. Among the common techniques are various displacements, exaggerations, simplifications, the use of piercing, inflamed colors and tense, sharp contours.

It is believed that the term "expressionism" itself was introduced by the Czech art historian Antonin Mateshek in 1910, as opposed to the term. The expressionist wants, above all, to express himself, an instant impression and builds more complex mental structures. Impressions and mental images pass through the human soul as through a filter that frees them from all superficial things to reveal their pure essence.

The German expressionists considered the post-impressionists to be their predecessors, who, discovering new possibilities of color and line, moved from reproducing reality to expressing their own subjective states. Dramatic paintings by Edvard Munch and James Ensor are permeated with overwhelming emotions of delight, indignation, and horror.

In 1905, German expressionism formed into the “Bridge” group, seeking to return to German art the lost spiritual dimension and diversity of meanings. The banality, ugliness and contradictions of modern life gave rise to feelings of irritation, disgust, and anxiety among the Expressionists. Expressionist art is by definition disharmonious.

When relative stability was established in Germany after 1924, the vagueness of the Expressionist ideals, their complicated language, the individualism of artistic manners, and the inability to constructive social criticism led to the decline of this movement. With Hitler's rise to power in 1933, expressionism was declared "degenerate art" and its representatives lost the opportunity to exhibit or publish their work.

Nevertheless, individual artists continued to work within the framework of expressionism for many decades. Sharp, nervous strokes and disharmonious, broken lines distinguish the works of the largest expressionists of Austria - Oskar Kokoschka and. In search of emotional expressiveness, French artists Georges Rouault and Chaim Soutine sharply deform the figures of their subjects. Max Beckmann presents scenes of bohemian life in a satirical manner with a touch of cynicism.

Also, the main representatives of expressionism include the following artists: Edvard Munch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, Zinaida Serebryakova, Frank Auerbach, Albert Bloch, Paul Klee, Max Kurzweil, Jan Slaters, Nicolae Tonitsa, Milton Avery.

Grotesque distortions of space, stylized scenery, psychologization of events, and an emphasis on gestures and facial expressions are the hallmarks of expressionist cinema, which flourished in the Berlin studios from 1920 to 1925. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, many expressionist filmmakers moved to Hollywood, where they made a significant contribution to the formation of the American genres of horror and film noir.

Expressionism arose simultaneously in various cities in Germany, as a response to the widespread belief in disharmony between humanity and the outside world. Expressionism was inspired by the art of the Symbolists, but opposed academicism and impressionism in painting.

The most noticeable influence on expressionism was the work of V. Van Gogh, E. Munch, J. Ensor - the artists adopted the technique of using color and light, distorted rendering of shapes and lines to enhance the impressions of the painting.

The classical phase of expressionism lasted from 1905 to 1920, but the influence on many later areas of German painting remained noticeable almost until the end of the 70s and 80s of the 20th century. In the 80s, the movement of neo-expressionism developed, inheriting the ideals and aesthetic norms of the avant-garde movements of the 20th century.

Researchers find the roots of the art of expressionism in the work of W. Turner. His unique style preceded the appearance of the first works in the expressionist style. V. Van Gogh is also called the founder-creator of the movement.

Key Ideas

Expressionism is an artistic style and direction in the development of culture, in which the artist strives to depict not objective reality, but the subjective emotions and reactions that arise in a person in response to events in the world. The artist achieves this goal through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism or fantasy, through bright colors and expressive brushstrokes.

Term

The term "expressionism" refers to the painting movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, schools of emotive or interpretive art that arose mainly in Germany and, later, in France. The impressionists tried to find a way to display reality in a new way; the expressionists criticized them for their limitations, going beyond the traditional perception of reality. The Impressionists tried to convey light and color in a special way; it was these features that made the Impressionist paintings unique. Expressionists pushed real objects into the background, focusing on the expression of feelings.

In a broad sense, the concept reflects one of the main art movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the features of which can be expressed in three words: subjectivity, brightness, emotionality.
Expressionism is considered as a stable trend in the development of art in Scandinavia and Germany during periods of spiritual crisis, social change. The direction demonstrates a departure from the norms of classicism and rationalism towards reflecting the artist’s inner world.

Rethinking

The formation of expressionism gave rise to new standards in the field of creating and understanding art. Painting was no longer limited to the realistic representation of objects in the surrounding world. The artists' goals were to convey emotions and feelings through fine art, using abstract figures to convey objects. To do this, they used bright colors and a dynamic plot, without revealing any interest in the perspective and volume of the image.

Conveying Emotions

A feature of the style is the use of smooth lines to depict objects, exaggerated strokes that look rough. The expressive features of the painters’ works convey the emotional state of the artist, who reacts to changes in the world around him.

Ideas of social struggle, the role of man in the world, and the consequences of urbanization occupied a special place in his creativity. The artists tried to draw public attention to the loneliness of a person in a big city, to emotional detachment, which was replaced by capitalism and new ideals of the world.

Artists representatives

The style developed not only in Germany. Representative paintings are known in the works of Russian, French, Italian artists of the first half of the 20th century. During the interwar period, expressionism had a serious influence on the movements of avant-garde art.

Vincent Van Gogh

Van Gogh's work exemplifies expressionism and abstract art. Most of his paintings are autobiographical, chronicling his thoughts, feelings and mental balance, compositions and shades, special strokes convey the artist’s subtle state of mind. A characteristic feature of his works is the use of symbols and allegories.

Paul Gauguin

French artist Paul Gauguin relied on color to express his emotions. He used tones of varying intensity to convey emotional experiences and state. Abstract works are considered representative of the style.

Munch

The third great artist in the expressionist style is E. Munch, a Norwegian painter and engraver. The artist suffered from neuroses, and his best paintings were painted before a nervous breakdown, which changed his perception of the world and the transmission of emotions. The artist’s most famous painting, “The Scream,” is a striking example of expressionism. The harbingers of the emergence of expressionism were the symbolist artists Hodler and Ensor.

Communities

The German cities of Dresden, Berlin, and Munich became centers for the development of the style. The most famous communities uniting representatives of expressionism:

Die Brucke (1905 - 1913)

Founded in Dresden, representatives combined traditional German art with African, Post-Impressionist and Fauvist paintings. Artists: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt, Emil Nolde, Otto Müller and Pechstein.

Blue Rider (1911 - 1914)

The group was founded in Munich, named after a Kandinsky painting. The group included avant-garde artists: Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee, Marc and Macke.

Die Neue Sachlichkeit (1920s) ("New Objectivity")

Based in Berlin, the group explored a new form of realism with socialist and abstract overtones. Characterized by satire and vivid criticism of social problems, political and economic life in Germany after the First World War. Representatives: George Gros, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Christian Schad.

Paris was not a major center for the development of expressionism, but many of the artists are associated with the Paris School of painting. The four greatest expressionists at the Ecole de Paris: Frank Kupka, Amedeo Modigliani, Chaim Soutine and Pablo Picasso.

New York supplanted Paris as the center of innovation in modern art, and the style was revived in the form of Abstract Expressionism in the early 1940s. The most prominent representatives: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still.

Meaning

The decline in the influence of expressionism was accelerated by vague ideas of style and the dominance of subjective abstract philosophy, which was not understandable to everyone. Since the style arose and developed in connection with fundamental changes in the world and society, the stabilization of the situation in the political and economic spheres made the slogans and ideas of expressionism no longer relevant.

In connection with the formation of social realism and other styles of the 20th century, expressionism is losing influence. But the features of emotional German painting are present in the works of painters of other movements. IN

In Germany, the style was criticized and banned with the Nazis coming to power in the 30s of the 20th century. The artists' works were called imperfect, promoting anti-art and unaesthetic. Expressionist artists left the country en masse and continued to develop ideas in the USA and Western European countries.

The last revival of expressionism occurred in the 1980s in America, Britain, Germany, Italy and France in the form of neo-expressionism. The style became a striking manifestation of the abstract trends of the 20th century.

Expressionism is a modernist movement in European art of the early 20th century. It spread primarily in Germany and Austria. Artists within this movement expressed their own emotional state, mood or internal processes occurring in the soul or psyche. They do not copy reality, but project their inner world in painting, literature, theater, music and dance. By the way, expressionism was one of the first to manifest itself in cinema.

How and why did expressionism appear?

Its emergence was due to increased social tension in the society of that time. The First World War, local conflicts, revolutionary upheavals and the reactionary regimes that followed on their heels did their job: people of the old formation were replaced by a lost generation that perceived what was happening extremely subjectively. The new creators were disappointed, angry, broken by trials and psychological pressure. Their fear and despair, replacing each other, became the main motives in the art of that time. Descriptions of pain, screaming, groaning and death - “Gorgias figures” of the early 20th century.

Expressionism in painting: examples, signs, representatives

In Germany, expressionism took shape early and declared itself louder than anyone else. In 1905, the Bridge group appeared, in opposition to the Impressionists, who devoted their energies to depicting the superficial beauty of colors, shades and light. The new creators believed that art should regain its semantic palette, rather than its colorful one. The rebels deliberately gave preference to bright, flashy colors, which hurt the eyes and crack the strained nerves. In this way they gave an ordinary landscape emotional depth, mood traits and signs of time. Among the representatives, Max Pechstein and Otto Müller stood out.

Edmond Munch, "The Scream"

The petty-bourgeois kitsch gloss and aggressive attacks of modern life caused frustration, agony, irritation to the point of hatred and alienation to the point of complete opposition in the expressionists, which they depicted with the help of angular lines, crazy in zigzags, lines, careless and thick strokes, not bright, but furious coloring.

In 1910, an association of expressionist artists led by Pechstein acted independently, in the format of the ideological group “New Secession”. In 1912, the “Blue Rider”, founded by the Russian abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky, announced itself in Munich, although non-researchers believe that this heterogeneous composition of artists is precisely expressionist.

Marc Chagall, "Above the City"

Expressionism includes such famous and, of course, talented artists as Edmond Munch and Marc Chagall. Munch's painting The Scream, for example, is the most famous Norwegian work of art. It was the expressionist who introduced this Scandinavian country to the arena of world art.

Expressionism in literature: examples, signs, representatives

Expressionism became widespread in the literature of Eastern Europe. For example, in Poland in the work of Michinsky, in Czechoslovakia in the brilliant prose of Capek, in Ukraine in Stefanik’s repertoire this trend was realized with one or another admixture of national flavor. The expressionist writer Leonid Andreev is widely known in Russia. an incredibly emotional outburst of the writer’s tension, his inner abyss that gave him no peace. In a work full of anthropological pessimism, the author does not so much tell a story as give vent to his gloomy worldview, painting images of Bosch, where each hero is an unfulfilled funeral feast for the soul and therefore a complete monster.

States of obsessive claustrophobia, interest in fantastic dreams, descriptions of hallucinations - all these signs distinguish the Prague school of expressionists - Franz Kafka, Gustav Meyrink, Leo Perutz and other writers. In this regard, those related to Kafka’s work are also interesting.

Expressionist poets include, for example, Georg Traklä, Franz Werfel and Ernst Stadler, whose imagery incomparably expresses the mental and emotional disorders of a person.

Expressionism in theater and dance: examples, signs, representatives

Mainly, this is the dramaturgy of A. Strindberg and F. Wedekind. The subtleties of Rosin's psychologism and the humorous truth of Moliere's life give way to schematic and generalized symbolic figures (Son and Father, for example). The main character, in conditions of general blindness, manages to see the light and is not lucky enough to rebel against this, which determines the inevitable tragic outcome.

The new drama found its audience not only in Germany, but also in the USA (under the strict guidance of Eugene O'Neill) and Russia (the same Leonid Andreev), where Meyerhold taught artists to depict states of mind with sharp movements and impetuous gestures (this technique was called "biomechanics").

Ballet "The Rite of Spring"

Visualization of the soul through plasticity took the form of the expressionist dance of Mary Wigman and Pina Bausch. The explosive aesthetic of Expressionism seeped into the austere classical ballet performed by Vaslav Nijinsky in his 1913 production of The Rite of Spring. The innovation penetrated into conservative culture at the cost of a huge scandal.

Expressionism in cinema: examples, signs, representatives

From 1920 to 1925, the phenomenon of expressionist cinema appeared in Berlin film studios. Asymmetrical distortions of space, flashy symbolic decorations, an emphasis on non-verbal communication, psychologization of events, an emphasis on gestures and facial expressions - all these are signs of a new trend on the screen. Famous representatives of expressionist cinema, in whose work all these trends can be traced: F. W. Murnau, F. Lang, P. Leni. A certain continuity with this modernist cinema can be felt by analyzing the famous work of Lars von Trier “Dogville”.

Expressionism in music: examples, signs, representatives

Examples of expressionist music include the late symphonies of Gustav Mahler, the early works of Bartok, and the works of Richard Strauss.

Johann Richard Strauss, "Loneliness"

But most often, the expressionists mean the composers of the new Viennese school led by Arnold Schoenberg. By the way, it is known that Schoenberg actively corresponded with V. Kandinsky (founder of the expressionist group “Blue Rider”). In fact, the influence of expressionist aesthetics can also be found in the work of modern musical groups, for example, the Canadian group Three Days Grace, where the lead singer expresses the emotional intensity of the song through powerful vocal parts.

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Abstract on the topic:

Expressionism

Completed by: senior group 529 Kryuchkova E.V.

Checked by: Kolosova I.I.

1. Introduction

2. History

3. Main features

4. Main representatives: 4.1 Jorn Utzon

4.2 Erich Mendelssohn

4.3 Bruno Taut

5. References

Introduction

Expressionism(from Latin expressio - expression) - a direction that developed in European art and literature from approximately 1905 to the 1920s. It arose as a response to the most acute social crisis of the 1st quarter of the 20th century. (including the 1st World War and the subsequent revolutionary upheavals), became an expression of protest against the ugliness of modern bourgeois civilization.

This movement in European art of the modernist era was most developed in Germany and Austria. Expressionism strives not so much to reproduce reality, but to express the emotional state of the author. It is represented in a variety of artistic forms, including painting, literature, theater, architecture, music and dance. This is the first artistic movement to fully manifest itself in cinema.

The art of expressionism was inevitably socially oriented, as it developed against the backdrop of sharp socio-political changes, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the First World War.

Expressionist architecture is characterized by distortion of traditional architectural forms in order to achieve maximum emotional effect on the viewer. Preference is often given to architectural forms that evoke natural landscapes (mountains, rocks, caves, stalactites, etc.).

History of origin

Gradually, the members of the "Bridge" moved to Berlin, which became the center of artistic life in Germany. Here they were exhibited in the gallery "Sturm" (German: "storm").

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