Art Movement: Expressionism

Purpose: 

• To make connections between the Expressionist Art Movement and artists who worked in that style, including artists from our past and present;
  
• To respond visually to artists who work(ed) in the style of the Expressionist Art Movement, by creating a work of art in this style.
  

Expressionism was made to express subjective emotions rather than objective realities. It began around the early 20th century mainly in Germany and Austria. In many cases artists were expressing how an event made them feel, in the case of Germany and Austria, artists were expressing how they felt about the war. Edvard Munch's work usually included emotions such as misery, sickness, and death. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was one of the leaders of Die Brucke, a group of Expressionist artists. Lastly, Franz Marc created some very moving works of Expressionist art but died young in WW1 at the age of 36

Comparing Edvard Munch and Siri Beckman I found that Siri is much more detailed than Edvard is in his artwork. Siri depicts her artwork as it would look with very detailed lines. Edvard depicts his artwork with less detail, but enough to tell what the work of art is easily. Also Siri tends to do more works of art to do with wildlife, as where Edvard has more of a focus on people.

J.P. Fisher

Edvard Munch, ...........

In the top image the artwork seems more defined and less scratchy than the artwork done by Edward Munch. However the top piece of work looks more like a work of art from a cartoon as where the bottom picture looks like it has more feeling to it.

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