Expressionism is an artistic movement that favors the appearance at the expense of emotional reality of the visible with an objective eye. The expressionist artists deeply felt human suffering, poverty, violence, passion, so much to feel a little honest insist harmony and beauty in art. The movement considered not only the arts figurative, but also literature, music, theater, stage design and architecture.
Among the Expressionist artists They scandalized the public and powerful with their art we find: Matisse, Vlaminck, Derain, Marquet, Kirchner, Nolde, Kandinsky, Marc, Kokoshka, Kollwitz, Barlach, Jawlensky, Schiele, and many others. Of course some of them developed paths different, but all were found to touch expressionism. Expressionism developed around 1905 in the atmosphere of unease and confusion that preceded the War of 1914.
When the National Socialists rose to power in 1933, all modern art was banned in Germany and the leading exponents of They were exiled movement or they were forbidden to work. Expressionism was embodied particularly in some countries of Europe: in France with the Fauves (the Beast), in Germany with Die Brücke and Der Group Blaue Reiter and Austria. Although the chosen land of expressionism was specifically Germany.
From the pictorial point of view expressionism appeared as a clear reaction to impressionism, of which He refused objectivity and optimism. Expressionism matured in years when They turned the cultural references: the whole of Europe rediscovered its "primitive" and the distant peoples arts (Africa, Oceania, North America and Far East) supplanted the greek-Roman classicism.
