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Expressionism is a modernist movement CHARACTERISTICS
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originating in Germany at the beginning - People, places and objects are distorted or exaggerated, sinister feeling
of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to - People seem sickly or in emotional pain and anguish. The faces are alwa
present the world solely from a subjective - The unnatural colors are often dark to “express” their feelings about the
- scenes are eerie or nightmarish, shapes and forms usually lack much de
perspective, distorting it radically for
emotional effect in order to evoke moods
or ideas. Expressionist artists have sought
to express the meaning of emotional
GUSTAV KLIMT
experience rather than physical reality
The Kiss (1908)
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ERNST KICHNER
The Kiss depicts an embracing couple kneeling in a The u