What is Expressionism? The Art Movement Explained

Expressionism swept through Europe at the start of the twentieth century, spurred on by resistance to bourgeois culture and a fervent search for rejuvenated creativity. Words that characterize Expressionist art and artists are 'self', 'psyche', 'body', 'sexuality', 'nature', and 'spirit'.

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ARTWORKS
By order of appearance:

Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893.
Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait with Physalis, 1912.
Egon Schiele, Seated Woman with Bent Knee, 1917.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Marcella, 1909.
Franz Marc, Blue Horses, 1911.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, 1908.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Houses at Night, 1912.
Edvard Munch, The smell of death, 1915.
Edvard Munch, The Death Struggle, 1915.
George Grosz, Metropolis, 1917.
Paul Gauguin, Femmes de Tahiti ou Sur la plage, 1891.
Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889.
Henri Matisse, Dance, 1910.
Wassily Kandinsky, Der Blaue Reiter, 1910.
Egon Schiele, Two Girls (lovers), 1911.
Oskar Kokoschka, Lovers with cat, 1917.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Self-Portrait as a Soldier, 1915.
Anselm Kiefer, Des Herbstes Runengespinst, 2006.
Eric Fischl, BBQ, 1982.
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1981.

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