What is Abstract Expressionism?

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Yury Lobo
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Yuri Slobodenyuk, known as "Yury Lobo" , is an internationally acclaimed Ukranian-American contemporary visual artist. Yury Lobo is known for his breadth of abstract work, pop-art, collage, readymades, cartoons and portraits.  Throughout his artistic career he has produced a significant quantity of works, which are represented in various private collections throughout  the world. His art follows the example of Picasso in undermining the concept of the artist's obligation to maintain a single cohesive style. However, Yury considers himself first and foremost an 'abstract expressionist,' and this stems from a pivotal moment from his childhood: in July 1959, Yury and his mother happened upon the First American National Exhibition in Moscow, which featured Jackson Pollock’s masterpiece, “Cathedral”. The young boy who grew up behind the iron curtain was both amazed and shocked by such an abstract painting. Of course, at the only 11 years old in Communist Russia, Yury knew little about Modern Art or Jackson Pollock, but the impact of the piece was imprinted in his subconscious and this moment would significantly change and determine the trajectory of his life forever. Later in his professional life, his interests were centered on artists of the Avant-garde. He claims his favorite artists are (just to name a few): Van Gogh, Chagall, Schiele, Kandinsky, Malevich, Duchamp, Picasso, Matisse, Miro, Brague, Klee, Warhol, Rothko, Richter, and, of course, Pollock. Yury has said, "These artists give me the creative impulse just to open up and paint 'from the hip' trusting only my own inner instincts, pouring my bursting energy in bold colors on the canvas."



What is Abstract Expressionism?

How did it skyrocket in popularity across the globe, and why does it hold a dominant position in the history of modern art to this day?
Who started it?
Who celebrated it?
And what was so radical about Jackson Polloсk's art that earned him a nickname "Jack the Dripper"?
Let's find out in this episode from Curious Muse!

For centuries, Paris was the global center of artistic innovation.
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But that all changed when a group of artists coming from the New York City area after the
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Second World War brought exciting new advances to painting.
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Together, they were called Abstract Expressionists because all of their paintings were predominantly
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abstract and each embodied the emotional expression of the artists.
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You may be familiar with another term - the New York School - which many art historians
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consider a more appropriate name for this distinctive aesthetic that emerged in the
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late 1940s and early 1950s and placed the Big Apple at the center of the world's art
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stage.
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The New York School brought together artists who were inspired by war and the human irrationality
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and vulnerability it exposed.
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Many of them shared strong beliefs based on Marxist social and economic equality ideas,
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including Robert Motherwell, Clyfford Still, Jackson Pollock, and Ad Reinhardt.
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They gravitated towards the Existentialist philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre and Carl Jung’s
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collective unconscious aiming to communicate universal truths about the human condition.
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AbEx artists were not interested in the subject or meaning of their paintings and even stopped
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naming their works.
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Instead, Abstract Expressionists emphasized discovery and an aesthetic experience, hoping
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to evoke strong emotions as well as different interpretations.
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To them, abstract art was the perfect visual language to achieve all of this.
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This unique form of art was first exhibited in New York as early as the 1930s, together
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with other movements of European Modernism, such as Cubism, German Expressionism, Dada,
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and Surrealism.
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All these ideas and practices, including Native American Art and even Asian calligraphy, profoundly
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impacted AbEx artists.
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Abstract Expressionism was the first American art movement to achieve international acclaim.
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This was largely thanks to the U.S. government, which saw the new style as a reflection of
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American democracy and freedom and spent millions of dollars actively promoting the movement
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around the world as part of its political propaganda.
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Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg, two influential art critics, also helped wrap
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peoples' brains around these often baffling paintings.
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Finally, Abstract Expressionists were very fortunate to have Peggy Guggenheim, a wealthy
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American art collector, on their side.
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With her support, The New York School became a tremendous financial success.
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Importantly, the artists also supported each other.
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Most AbEx artists were friends, some of them even lovers, who lived and worked together
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organizing exhibitions and discussing art at the legendary Cedar Tavern.
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The community sometimes created rivalries or overshadowed other incredible artists.
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For example, Lee Krasner and Elaine de Kooning's work has only recently started to be appreciated
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by critics without comparisons to the art of their famous husbands.
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Yeah, the art world in post-war America was pretty much a man’s world, a macho environment
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personified in the famous bohemian and rebel Jackson Pollock.
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Although sometimes perceived as a unified movement, Abstract Expressionism was a much
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more complex phenomenon in art history in terms of styles and approaches.
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Yes, most abstract expressionist paintings are large in scale, denying a formal concept
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of the composition and including non-objective imagery.
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Still, the way the painters dealt with abstraction is quite different depending on
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the artist.
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Each of the artists involved with The New York School developed an individual style
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that can be easily recognized.
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Barnett Newman did his iconic existential zips, Jackson Pollock poured paint, Helen
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Frankenthaler soak-stained her paintings, and Rothko allegedly achieved the sublime
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in art through his fluid forms and radiant hues.
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Nevertheless, there are two broad groupings within abstract expressionism: action painting,
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and color field painting.
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For action painters, the actual act of painting was paramount.
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The style was characterized by extremely vigorous and expressive handling of paint, sweeping
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brush strokes, and, in the case of Jackson Pollock, pouring and dripping commercial paints
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with sticks and knives directly onto an untouched canvas spread out on the floor.
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This radical technique, which earned him the nickname “Jack the Dripper,” allowed Pollock
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to break away from traditional painting processes and express his inner psyche freely
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and spontaneously.
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Inspired by the automatism of Surrealists and sand painting of Navajo artists, Pollock
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regarded the canvas as a painting arena on which he recorded the "action" of painting
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without any restrictions.
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The final product is a pulsating web of tangled lines in which there is no where our eyes
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can rest.
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Although Pollock’s works may seem as if they have been made in a frenzy, they all
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have structure.
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They look wild but at the same time possess great subtlety.
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The less emotionally expressive and more cerebral and philosophical approach was the color field
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painting, practiced by artists such as Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans
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Hofmann, Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, Ad Reinhardt, and Mark Rothko.
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These artists created simple compositions with large areas of flat color to provoke
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a contemplative response in the viewer.
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The master of color, Rothko, applied thin layers of paint, one on top of the other,
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to create glowing hues that almost illuminated the painting from within.
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This achieved a sense of atmospheric depth.
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Rothko wanted his paintings to do what Mozart had done in music: inspire a spiritual experience
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in art viewing and bring tears to the eyes of his viewers.
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However, by the 1960s, these philosophical overtones of Abstract Expressionism became
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increasingly at odds with a society preoccupied with consumerism and the mass media, leading
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to the end of the movement and the emergence of Pop Art.


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Expressionism was an international movement of the early 20th century and it was present not only in art but in architecture, theatre, cinema, dance, and literature too! The roots of the expressionist aesthetic can be found in post-impressionist and symbolist artworks, but also in proto-expressionist works like Edvard Munch’s Scream! So let’s dive into the most expressive period in art history together!

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@jeffrey9184
2 years ago
I love learning art history from you guys!

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@timdanyo898
2 years ago
Kandinsky is my favorite because of his opening of the musical connection by visually expressing the invisible.

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@CyLanceDougood
2 months ago
August Macke is my favorite.  I have been studying art on my own for years, but only recently have explored Expressionism.  I find it very interesting, now one of my favorite movements.  Your video and others have helped me to appreciate it.



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@p1n3mont
2 years ago
If you try to pursue an interest in Mexican Modernism you're drowned in a sea of Frida Kahlo, Tres Grandes, Tamayo, etc.  I'd like to see a segment that yes, must include them but goes wider to discuss other worthy Mexican Modernism artists. There was so much great work going on there from roughly 1925-1970. Thanks.

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@garypeterson1342
2 years ago
The invention of and broader use of the camera by this time period played a huge influence on these artists who found that exploring topics and images that could not be captured on film to be a force to investigate.

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@shadowplay5363
1 year ago
Macke's painting's were so beautiful. His use of colour was exquisite, and I dig the Cezanne influence. There's a calmness and harmony which are bit alien to expressionism, but I love it.

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@honeypeach5749
1 year ago
Schiele and matisse are two of my favorites. And I find that quite a lot of expressionist works aren't disturbing in the least. Rather, many of them capture humanity at it's most raw, vulnerable, and beautiful. But I also find beauty in many of the more disturbing works as well. Expressionism has been a great influence on my own art

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@cropcircle5693
1 year ago
For being as short as it is, this video packs in a lot digestible information and context!  Good stuff!

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@chronicallyalive
2 years ago
This channel is very underrated, I hope it will take off soon. Keep up the great work, guys!

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@ronnigenova287
1 year ago
I have a Modern Art exam tomorrow and this was a great refresher! Thank you!!!

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@Aramanth
2 years ago
Paul Klee is my favorite... his paintings vibrate with energy,
curiosity and a sometimes sinister yet childlike wonder.
This was an excellent presentation and I really learned new things!
Thank you!

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@Jason-o5s
4 months ago
Cheer~~~a style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.;

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@tomlowe4729
2 years ago
i love egon schiele! he died much to young. his work inspires me over and over again.

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@davidhatred8938
2 years ago
seated male nude is my fav drawing of a human. amazing creativity and imagination, he did amazing hands too.

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@arandostrango2680
2 years ago
I'm waiting; and also could you perhaps do abstract expressionism next? That would be great!

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@cfwintner1
2 years ago
Kathe Kollwitz is among my favorite  German expressionists. This video was wonderful. Thank you.

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@alexandervonkarnstein
2 years ago
The unreality of everyday life sometimes surpasses the irrationality of the imagination many times over in its suralty...

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@gingerjen6936
2 years ago
I really appreciate these videos! I'm going to university in September for Fine Art and they are making me less worried as I feel I will understand what others are talking about (as well as my own art) better! :)

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@cambria6420
2 years ago
ernst ludwig kirchner is amazing!!!!! and so underrated

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@divinecable
1 year ago (edited)
Hello, I am an Art History student and a new subscriber. I love learning from your videos. Great channel! ;;

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@buddhahoo1
2 years ago
I love expressionism. Most all of it. Especially Edvard Munch, Van Gogh, Klee, Kandinsky.

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@ziggystardust5669
2 years ago
Expresionismo alem;n ; c;spide del ingenio art;stico del hombre (en mi opini;n)

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@io3606
2 years ago
i think that another grand influence(d) could be friedensreich hundertwasser (1928-2000), his perception of the curve, color and shapes where not only portrayed in his very fovist paintings and drawings but also in his architectonical signature designs and philosophy. truly loving this channel's approaches! x

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@dianebonneau2350
2 years ago
Excellent. I’ve loved Kandinsky and Klee and you offer a conte t for them;;

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@ninanometa
2 years ago
It's interesting that the Curious Muse explains art in a fun way.

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@DonnaSnyder
2 years ago
I had never heard of any of The Bridge group! Thank you for this.

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@margolyn8291
1 year ago
Love the color use..pink sidewalks and wild hats

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@DanielEvans-gt1fk
1 month ago
I do appreciate  all the information  given.

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@cookiemonster3147
2 years ago
My all time favorite expressionist is the Dutch painter Harry van Gestel.

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@ejensen1050
2 years ago
Franz Marc is not just my favourit expressionist but my favourit painter altogether. I have several different reproductions on my walls. He has such talent and captures the elegant movement of a cat or a deer with just a few elegant stribes of paint. I adore him (and I not particularly knowledgeable about art a such).

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@andreamarchionni417
1 year ago
Kandinsky is my favourite one, no doubt.

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@iza1405able
2 years ago
So happy you make this content!! ;

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@paulacrestani4566
4 months ago (edited)
Edvard Munch is my favorite Expressionist. I love his work. However I find some Expressionist paintings a bit disturbing. It is not my favorite kind of art, but I always like to know a bit of everything. Thanks for the information you provide us with your channel. I found it today and already subscribed to it.

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@user-gg9jy1oi2n
2 years ago
Just found this channel.. obsessed. Exactly what I needed, but I didn’t know how to look for it!

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@59jaguar
1 year ago
You forgot to mention Gabriel Munter. She made great paintings also.

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@t-bonebigears
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I like them all including Gabriel Munter. ;



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@Marianne_C_O_Art
2 years ago
New subscriber here. What a great channel, I really appreciate the way you explain everything in simple, clear ways ;

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@AminaPhilosophy
5 months ago
“Primitive”? If they were so primitive, what does this say about the people imitating them?

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@DanielL143
1 year ago
Francis Bacon was my fave.

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@nookiespookie
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@shreyasmr3777
11 months ago
I have an assignment to design a furniture based on expressionism. This was helpful! Please help me with some ideas regarding the furniture design- I’m thinking of a vibrant asymmetrical seating and backrest and sleek metal legs and armrest.



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@marcheno7431
2 years ago
Hands down Kandinsky ;

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@polymorphism17
2 years ago
Informative,  I thought till now something else about expressionism

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@jyeshthajamwal
1 year ago
I want to learn about Op artist

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@vrejtamazian524
2 years ago
I like ARCHIL GORKY, ADRIAN GHENIE. EXPRESSIONIST ARTISTS.

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@TheMarkEH
2 years ago
What a great introduction to this topic. Thank you.

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@vvedhant1280
2 years ago
your videos are very insightful <3

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@JuanHugeJanus
2 years ago (edited)
Who made this painting (1:22) and what's the name of it? She looks like a curious muse ;-)

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@NoOneEverWas
2 months ago (edited)
I choose to live my life like it's an expressionist play.



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@francishubertovasquez956
2 years ago
Expressionist art in my point of view is more colourful, don't have to be portrait perfect, and encompassed the behaviors and more than that, like slight exaggeration to express something.

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@sergeydemushkin3945
2 years ago
Great video! What's the name of the film shown in the beginning?



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@ilgrandearthas6429
2 years ago
I would find expressionisim disturbing, only  if human beings  were... , but since they arent , we yet need more that  kind of.. reflecting painting.

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@DanielEvans-gt1fk
1 month ago
What is the  name for each of these pictures called expressionism ?

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@creativesolutionstoart
1 year ago
I always liked Kandinsky :-)

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@julia_ivanenkova_artist
1 year ago
Thank you for excellent video! I like art Munh and Schiele

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@traveler1163
2 years ago
Can you do a video about Subcultures like Rockers, Mods, Bikers, etc?

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@pauljack7170
11 months ago (edited)
how interesting ! since. kid i loved painting drowing and always and still i am keen  my first approach to oil was about at 19 yo a dalinian style   surrealist on paper copied. the same on canvans  both still in my possession made a De Chirico and a modigliani ..  this last unfortunately given away
 read a lot  about impressionism i love kandinsky Schiele  and klimt  and others but always has been looking for “ being me ”  stretched between differents types of  art painting styles,  after listening to this film here i understood why i always have been so hesitating

i am too square too much stable on my basement to have that hint of madness  egocentrism that an artist might / must have
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@Breakfast_of_Champions
1 year ago
The more down to earth companion of Art Nouveau. Also brutally stopped by an epoch of misery, war, and political megamania.

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@michaeltissona2815
2 years ago
Great videos! Can you make one on new objectivity please?

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@blue.tulips
1 year ago
The background music is so uncanny

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@muhammadGamal-h1q
1 year ago
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@leonamerlinantony5640
2 years ago
Nice work! Really Informative. Also, Vincent Van Gogh was a pioneer of this art period right?

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@Catlily5
2 years ago
Can't pick a favorite.

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@barbarahuff117
2 years ago
Watched many. Very good shows.  On more good subjects, how about impressionism and tonal-ism?

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@stellagullberg7462
2 years ago
Thank you! very well done.

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@pianist
2 years ago
Another great video! Could you do a video on neoplatonism? ;

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@t-bonebigears
2 weeks ago
I like all the artists of dei brucka, Paul Klee, Munter, Elon, and more. ;;;



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@ayeshasohail7660
2 years ago
Waiting ;

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@shaileshvaidya6064
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@mamamia6925
1 year ago
Pechstein and Otto M;ller were great,too. But there are much more.



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@adavis5926
2 years ago
Thank you for the video. It would be interesting to look at artists like Ludwig Gies and Arno Breker, Josef Thorak, and others who accommodated their aesthetics in the service of the Third Reich. Gies is particularly interesting because his expressionistic sculpture of the Crucifixion was used by Goebbels to introduce audiences to Goebbels' Degenerate Art exhibition in Germany in 1937-38.

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@RobCoghanable
1 year ago
A fan of all expressionism , since 1833 the camera has sent art to change, you want realism get a camera.

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@ishaqkhana
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@mylesmacleod4306
1 year ago
I'm okay with expressionism, although I think it is far removed from my own artistic practice. Of the two strands of expressionism I prefer the Blue Rider stuff.



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@phatato
2 years ago (edited)
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I wish I could   also enjoy  the  Neo Expressionist  art works  such as   Sandro Chia's  <Agguato, 2009>   humorous  and
 beautiful in colour   and  those   street   art   pieces   done by the graffiti   artists  such as  Jean-Michel Basquia  and Keith Haring  on
 your channel soon. ;
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@amirhidden1390
2 years ago
So great
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@artawhirler
2 years ago
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@jdsj6271
2 years ago
Love this video and I could learn more about art. Thanks You

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World War I  might have  been  a critical  blow  to   some    fans  of   Der Blaue Reiter.   The  war's the reason Franz Marc  had to stop  working on   his  horse theme   paintings. Otherwise , Newkie and me   could   have been  artistically  smarter and  aesthetically  more abstract..;
I  seriously  feel   sorry  for  two of us..;
  And other    Der Blaue Reiter  fans   could   also  by now soak up more   abstract forms of paintings.;

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@alegia2013
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@JasManie1995
2 years ago
I was compared to Kirchner ... That was very flattering




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@lucentguy85
2 years ago
How can we distinguish between fauvism and expressionism?



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@paonesth
1 year ago
I had thought expressionism was also for artists who expressed beautiful memories, fleeting moments or dreams as well not just the disturbing ; ones. Maybe that just stays in impressionism.




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@TheBobRock57
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@TheBlackJewelz
1 year ago
Wait but how was Metropolis expressionist?



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@marina-jf4og
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@doylesaylor
2 years ago
The central conceit of expressionism is ‘feeling’.  However, this ignores visual expression doesn’t carry feeling information well.  One can see images that arouse feelings, but that is highly variable result.  Secondarily cultures try to regulate content to wall off kinds of feelings arousal.  This project of protecting against kinds of feelings seems to me anti-scientific, or conventional parlance unrealistic.




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@rickvaran4489
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 $1.99
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This video is   great , too
Munch's   Scream  is  one of   
the proto- expressionist art works..
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Green and orange faces..
My face is    yellowish green ..  Can it be called    an expressionist   art work, too?

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@propositionjoe1515
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@TimothyMilesTadeo
2 months ago
I want to understand what is neoprimitvism



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@elenakuzmina4000
1 year ago
Большое спасибо! Очень интересно !

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@sebo641
2 years ago
once again, the real great masters are the traditional native artists

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@harry486
1 year ago
If only Schiele could have lived to be an old man

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@Artcollector384
11 months ago
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@scepticrat
1 year ago
Oscar Bluemner, if you consider him Expressionist.

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@normanmerrill1241
2 years ago
Disturbingly moving, beautiful and  poignant…Elon and Wassily…

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@4shaha
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@2winstarDesigner
2 years ago (edited)
alssoooo waiting

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@gbrown355
1 month ago
such a shame I cant show this to my students in school...due to the one too many references of sex...




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@__dreamerinthecloud__2482
2 years ago
it is my favourite art current lol

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@majoras_swag2
1 month ago
Fun. I am a painter and I want to learn techniques.



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@monumentofwonders
1 year ago
Maybe not false but super superficial.  Typical internet skimming, but maybe it will encourage some viewers to dive deeper.

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@arantzaurtaza
8 months ago
kandinsky is extraordinary…



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@inessa5923
2 years ago
I adore these videos.

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@sudiproy2493
2 years ago
Love to enjoy ..,.
Salutation from india...

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@binebum1
2 years ago
Very interesting

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@tomhighsmith
2 years ago
Strange century, they lost the way. Was it a result of emerging science and industrialization?



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@youngquagmire4693
2 years ago
great video

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@monicasanchezorozco1361
11 months ago
it was an expression of war times. the same ones we live now..



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@plenku
2 years ago
I like this series very much, but are those emojis really necessarry? Feel it kind of dumbs down the the otherwise good video

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@PinoyAbstractArtist
7 months ago
Verily good content



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@Krook1897
2 years ago
If Van Gogh was surreal...

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@raeidulahsan8027
1 year ago
Why are most of expressionist arts only express negative emotions?




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@MMARCOPPICASSO
2 months ago
FraNzi, WherE aRe YoU? LoVe YoU!%^&*(&



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@villll
2 years ago
cmon cmon

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@rachelkremer1278
2 months ago
personally i think impressionism is quite disturbing



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@jethawkeye4587
2 years ago
Can we learn about modernism in 8 minutes??

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@thomaswallace479
1 year ago
Kirchner & Schiele



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@kyll5552
1 year ago
I love Schiele!!!! reading about his life though he seemed like such a douche. but it is sad the german artists work got cut short cuz of the war.




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@monicasanchezorozco1361
11 months ago
but you said nothing about russian expresionism, like Natalia Goncharova. Is a global world just a thiny part of it?



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@ayagroeiro_groeiroart5226
2 years ago
#Expresionismo

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@emilyslarke
10 months ago
So many Women to see in this too short video! Unfortunately all naked. I didn't notice clips of Paula Modersohn-Becker, Gabrielle Munter or Marianne von Werefkin andf frankly couldn't be bothered to go through the 8 minutes again to make sure.



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@joelee6031
8 months ago
#BernardBuffet is quite fantastic



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@navideology
2 years ago
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@speeksasfada
1 year ago
I always fucking see vangogh



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@angelzz1862
7 months ago
So depressing



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@julieduncan4075
1 year ago
Interesting, but I’m not a fan.

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@Drbob369
1 year ago
Expression is part of an effort to degrade and insult humanity lol



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@Sanwas99
4 months ago
I don’t get why all these famous artists are men sexualizing women in their paintings? Why did they use women as a tool for their artworks..



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@Devie12
2 years ago
This video helped me know art

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@songwolf108
2 years ago
Kandinsky




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@ArtEquum-v6u
1 year ago
ART EQUUM



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@DustyB
2 years ago
I love this

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@CookieGamerLife
9 months ago
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@archadeinteriors
1 year ago
troll title: you 're painting a negative picture of Expressionism with linguistics and sensationalism just to get more views; boo!. . . ." the most disturbing art ever, ( ha hah! ! !) Please guys try not to trivialize the intellectual and aesthetic achievements so blatantly, unless this is an 8 minute presentation by and for Sunday scene painters!!!! Yeash !

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@thebxchange
2 years ago
So social media has become neo-expressionism? LMAO! :)



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@ayagroeiro_groeiroart5226
2 years ago
#Hola

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@sophiafakevirus-ro8cc
9 months ago
Expressionists didn't "...aim to show..." They just created what they felt.



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@johnwalters5131
2 years ago
I cannot help thinking that we are being conned by many of these 'artists' .

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@wildmangreen5259
2 months ago
complete waste of time



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@DesertVox
2 years ago
This is glorification of poor and low art by the fringe elements of society. They do NOT represent the general human consciousness at their time, let alone at any time. It would be like considering cannibalism as a form of cuisine, or hard core death metal as fine music.

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@BGTuyau
2 years ago
As every schoolboy knows, Paul Klee was Swiss.

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@lumberpilot
2 years ago
I wouldn't characterize a grotesque nude as "raw sexuality." There's nothing sexual about it as it does not elicit the viewer's desire or even admiration.



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@sTeVe-vl3nh
2 years ago
Very nice documentary. But please, but as a German: Could you take more care of pronouncing the names of persons correctly?

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@andrewjohnstone963
11 months ago (edited)
I wish suchlike art existed in today's bland tedious society
What do we get Damian tedious hirst and keith trouser wasp harring . I've probably misspelled their names
Nevertheless tedium personified
But the art usually reflects the times we live in hence hirst etc
No revolutionary ways exist today.
This isnt scary art its bold imaginative and wonderful
Expressionism and all it entails is just what it says express 



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@den_kos5
1 year ago
Это НЕ искусство. Это убожество.



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@ishaqkhana
1 year ago
Very well explained ;



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@artequum3963
1 year ago
ART EQUUM



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;Can you notice loneliness, anxiety,  isolation, or raw sexuality in these paintings?
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How about in this one? These are all topics that  expressionist artists showed in their artworks.
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Expressionism was an international movement  of the early 20th century and it was 
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present not only in art but in architecture,  theatre, cinema, dance, and literature too!
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The roots of the expressionist aesthetic can  be found in post-impressionist and symbolist 
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artworks, but also in proto-expressionist  works like Edvard Munch’s Scream!
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So let’s dive into the most expressive  period in art history together!
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be sure to give us a like and tell us  which topics you want to learn about next!
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Expressionists aimed to show true emotions in  their works. And those emotions were often scary, 
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dark, worrying, and well - not so positive. But  expressionists wanted to show life as it truly 
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was for them, a life filled with the anxiety  and alienation present in the modern world. 
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They often used bold colors and more abstract  forms in order to get their message across, 
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or to say it more precisely,  to show their emotions 
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thoroughly. Explorations of the human psyche and  the popularity of psychoanalysis also influenced 
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the expressionist focus on the self and  the subjective ways of looking at life.
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When we think about Expressionism in the  visual arts, two groups of artists seem to 
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be particularly important. Both were based  in Germany: in Dresden, Munich and Berlin. 
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These groups were known as  the Blue Rider and The Bridge. 
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The artists connected to these two groups  defined the style of expressionism in art.
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The Bridge
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So let’s talk about Die Brucke  or The Bridge created in 1905. 
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The Bridge was founded by artists Karl  Schmidt-Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, 
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and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The name of the group  was taken from the writings of the famous German 
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philosopher Friedrich Nietzche who famously wrote  “What is great in man is that he is a bridge 
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and not an end.” And this artistic bridge of  our expressionists was supposed to represent 
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a path between the present and the future,  and a path between the artist and the viewer.
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These expressionist artists showed what it  was like to live in a modern city with all 
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the angst that this life could carry with it.  Like in Kirchner’s 1908 work Street Dresden, 
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we see a crowded city street that screams  intensity! And the bold colors Kirchner 
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used helped make the scene seem even more  extreme. The sidewalk is painted pink, 
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and we can assume that it probably wasn’t pink  in real life. The same goes for the faces of 
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the two women we see approaching, their  faces are green and orange. Quite intense!
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Expressionists also embraced  printmaking, especially woodcuts. 
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Prints were easier to distribute so more  people could see expressionist artworks. 
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They also often portrayed nudes, but in a  new, modern way. The poses in these often 
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sexually charged images seem casual and natural,  completely different from the female nude poses 
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people were used to seeing in academic art. In  Erich Heckel’s woodcut print Franzi Reclining, 
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we see a young model Franzi, who often modeled for  Expressionists, lying in a slightly awkward way. 
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The scene is quite different from your  typical portrait of a nude in art history. 
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The way in which Franzi’s face was  portrayed was inspired by African masks.
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Like many other artists of the  time including Fauvists or Cubists, 
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the German expressionists were inspired by  non-western art that was known as “primitive art.” 
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Kirchner was inspired by the art created  by the native artists of Africa and Oceania 
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that he saw at the Ethnological Museum in Dresden.  While Emil Nolde, another member of The Bridge, 
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also visited the Ethnographic museum  in Berlin frequently. Unfortunately, 
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The Bridge group was short-lived and it  disbanded just before the start of World War I.
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The Blue Rider
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Now, let’s travel to Munich where Der Blaue Reiter  or the Blue Rider was born. The Blue Rider was 
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active from 1911 until 1914 and it was founded  by the famous Russian artist Vasily Kandinsky. 
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The name of the group was inspired by  a frequent motif we see in Kandinsky’s 
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works - a horse rider. Horses were also seen in  works of another Blue Rider member - Franz Marc. 
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The group consisted of two other Russian artists  Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefskin 
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and German artists like  Paul Klee and Auguste Macke.
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Kandinsky, who had the gift of synesthesia,  wanted to explore the ways in which music 
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affected spiritual states, so he started  painting visual equivalents to music, these 
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paintings he often liked to name improvisations  or compositions. In works like Composition VII 
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Kandinsky aimed to show how something musical  could also be visualized by using abstract forms.
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Unfortunately, because of World War I the  artistic group stopped working together. 
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Kandinsky had to move back to Russia, while  Macke and Marc were killed during the war.
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In Austria, Expressionism was present in the  works of artists Oscar Kokoschka and Egon 
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Schiele. Schiele, in particular, was mentored  by none other than the famous Austrian artist 
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Gustav Klimt. Focusing mostly on portraits (and  self-portraits), Schiele often showed the problems 
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of the psyche, the anxiety of the individual,  and raw sexuality that was considered shocking. 
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We can notice all of these things in his painting  called Seated Male Nude from 1910. In what happens 
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to be a self-portrait, we see an expressive,  intense, almost disturbing idea of one’s body.
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Another Austrian painter connected to Viennese  Expressionism was a man called Oskar Kokoschka. 
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Kokoschka also worked as a writer. In fact, he  wrote a play called Murderer, the Hope of Women 
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that is now considered one of the first  expressionist plays ever. In his self-portrait 
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Knight Errant, we see Kokoschka lying in the  middle of the painting dressed in a medieval 
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armor suit. The landscape around him seems to be  quite stormy and disturbing. And we can sense that 
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there is an inner struggle going on in the  main figure. A very unsettling image indeed.
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Expressionists aimed to show emotional  intensity. Showing realistic features of people, 
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places or things wasn’t as important as  showing the reality of one’s inner world. 
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And Expressionism represents an important  chapter in the history of modern art. 
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The expressionist ways of showing  things affected art movements like 
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New Objectivity, Neo-Expressionism, and  obviously Abstract Expressionism greatly.
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