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Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.
Expressionism : Description: English: ... English: James Ensor, Masks Confronting Death (Masques raillant la mort), 1888 Oil on canvas, 81,3 x 100,3 cm Museum of ...
Ensor in front of "Entry of Christ into Brussels" in his house in Ostend, 1940s, photo by Albert Lilar. James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) [1] was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for most of his life.
The Intrigue is an oil-on-canvas painting created by Belgian expressionist painter James Ensor in 1890. This painting is in the possession of Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp and is part of the official inventory of Flemish masterpieces. [1] Ensor painted a second version in 1911, which is now in the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
The Boston origins of the American movement date to a "wave of German and European-Jewish immigrants" in the 1930s and their "affinities to the contemporary German strain of figurative painting ... in artists like Otto Dix (1891–1969), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980), and Emil Nolde (1867–1956), both in style and in subject matter," art historian Adam ...
Three Musicians, also known as Musicians with Masks or Musicians in Masks, is a large oil painting created by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. He painted two versions of Three Musicians . Both versions were completed in the summer of 1921 in Fontainebleau near Paris, France , in the garage of a villa that Picasso was using as his studio.
Post-expressionism is a term coined by the German art critic Franz Roh to describe a variety of movements in the post-war art ... masks, carnival outfits, and side-by ...
Symbolism influenced several contemporary movements, such as modernism and naïve art, as well as several of the early "isms" of avant-garde art, such as Fauvism, expressionism, futurism, surrealism and even abstract art: some of the pioneers of abstraction, such as Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian and Kupka, had a symbolist phase at the beginning ...