ARTS: Expressionism

EXPRESSIONISM

·         Fauves – wild beasts

·         Fauvism – artists use intense, often wild color

·         Henri Matisse – former law student

-          Leader of Fauvism

EXPRESSIONISM

·         Germany

·         Expressionism – emphasized the expression of innermost feelings

·         Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Berlin Street

·         Kathe Kollwitz – painted in black and white

-          Painted the horrors of war

CUBISM

·         Cubism – objects and the space around them are broken up into different shapes and then put back together in new relationships

·         Pablo Picasso

·         Liubov Popova – inspired by a visit to Birsk

·         Jacques Lipchitz – cubist sculptor

NON-OBJECTIVE ART

·         Non-objective Art – artworks in which there is no recognizable subject matter

·         Wassily Kandinsky – leader