The Bridge and the Tools of Expressionism
Six Paintings. One Concept
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The group Die Brücke (The Bridge) is a perfect example of what Expressionism means in art and the fundamental tools of expressionist language.
In Expressionism, the artists are interested in “expressing” their feeling, emotions and not in reproducing faithfully the exterior world. Their perceptions of the exterior world change according to their inner world.
The fundamental tools to “express” are:
• Emotional distortion: deforming things to say something by means of that deformation,
• Vibrant color: full of vital energy and “expressing” a lot,
• Gestural brushstroke: which communicates the artist’s emotions by means of the way it is applied,
• And the simple, conclusive, powerful forms of primitivism: the art of the ancestral or exotic cultures or the wonderful “unpolluted” instinctive art of children.
Recommended links:
Characteristic Elements of Expressionist Painting.
The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter)
The Scream (1893), Edvard Munch.
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