Essays on Expressionists

Introduction

Pop Art or Popular Art originated in the Great Britain around 1950s. The word pop was first used to define popular culture existing but as the artist started using popular culture in their artwork the Pop art was created. Although the Pop art movement started in Britain, it achieved its full expression in U.S. American soil nurtured the movement providing a solid base for Pop art. It flourished so much in America that it became an integral part of American everyday life. The art found its way into things like newspaper photographs, Advertisements, Coco cola bottles, used car parts ...

Abstract Expressionism is one of the most recent and modern art movements which originated in USA. Regionalism and Social Realism, two art movements yielded and inspired by The Great Depression, were the precedents of the Abstract Expressionism movement (Stella). Both Regionalism and Social Realism inspired art during 1930s but they were not sufficient to express the artistic creativity of some artists leading them to create a new movement which they called Abstract Expressionism (Stella). Abstract Expressionism developed during 1940s and artists of this movement gave more importance and emphasis on the authenticity of their art resulting from its direct and ...

The period from the 18th to the late 20th centuries has been characterized by a diversity of artistic styles. Four of the most prominent are Neoclassicism from the 18th century, Impressionism from the 19th, Fauvism from the early 20th and Abstract Expressionism from the second part of the 20th century. The Oath of the Horatii (picture 1) is a work by the French painter Jacques Louis David. The artist created the work in 1784 and the medium is oil on canvas (Facos, 2011, p. 39). Cornelia Pointing her Children as her Treasures (picture 2) was painted by Angelica Kauffmann is ...

Emmerson Woelffer- (American 1914-2003)

Artwork Legacy: Winterscape, 1955 Winterscape is a piece of art that is based on abstract expression. This is a painting that was done by Emmerson Woelffer in the year 1955. According to most of the artist review, this piece of work depicts his newly found motive of using automatic writing in relation to his trade mark of abstract communication. Winterscape is one of the paintings that have been considered to be part of the use of numerous bold colors that Emmerson expresses himself (Tinterow, Messinger, & Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007). In this abstract painting, Emmerson has used the color ...

The film The Cabinet by Dr. Caligari by Robert Wiene (1919) was designed in an expressionist style. Expressionism was an avant-garde that began in paintings between the years 1898 to 1905. Expressionism was taken up in theatre, literature, architecture until eventually it was taken up on film by Robert Wiene in 1919.the expressionist style of Cligari was advanced by three designers by the names Hermann Warm, Walter Reimann and Walter Rogrig. This film by Robert Wiene expresses the viewpoint of a madman whose vision is the projection of the movie. Expressionism is an art movement with its roots dating ...

The expressionist movement, branching out from modernism began approximately in 1910, and was a movement that in the literal sense of the word encouraged being expressive candid about pressing issues. Even though this movement began before the surges of World War I, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, represents the first few expressionist films that surfaced in Germany during that period. Like all expressionist art forms, this movie too incorporates certain undertones of crucial themes that then nation underwent, through the characters and the broad plot. After the World War, many German soldiers refused to accept their defeat and believe ...