Expressionism

‌Modernist Art and Literary movement originated in 20th Century.

‌Birth of expressionist painting lay in the works of Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and James Ensor.
‌It focus on the subjective themes revolving around a person.

‌Distortions are brought in art in expressionism so as to express the inner feelings and ideas of the artist.

‌The artist achieves this aim through other methods like exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements.

‌Some of expressionists include : Francis Bacon, Peter Blume and Anto Carte.

‌Some expressionist movies include : which are Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920).

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