Kather Kollwitz
Subjective Frame
This frame focuses on the personal relationships that both the artists and the audience have with an artwork and with writings about art. It looks at the way the audience will attempt to understand the personal ideas of the artist and the different ways people will respond to the artworks.
KEYWORDS: Feelings Emotions Experiences Imagination Personality Individual Personal Sense
WHAT IS EXPRESSIONISM?
In the early 20th century Expressionism emerged as a subjective presentation of the world. Artists radically distorted imagery to strengthen the emotional effect and evoke moods and ideas.
Expressionists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality.
The art movement aimed to depict subjective emotions and responses to the lived experience. This was achieved by the use of: Distortion – Exaggeration – Primitivism – Fantasy - Vivid colour - Jarring or Discordant colour * The Expressionist’s goal was to impose the artist's own sensibility to the world's representation. Imagination is substitute * Expressionism assessed itself mostly in Germany, in 1910. As an international movement, expressionism has also been thought of as inheriting from certain medieval art forms and, more directly, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh and the fauvism movement. * The most well-known German expressionists are Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Lionel Feininger, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein; the Austrian Oskar Kokoschka, the Czech Alfred Kubin and the Norvegian Edvard Munch are also related to this movement. During his stay in Germany, the Russian Kandinsky was also an expressionism addict.
Issues: Politics - Social Realism-The human form
Forms: Printmaking and sculpture
Powerful - Intense - Deep Tenderness - Raw Emotion
Emotion and Subject * Her works were based on observation and knowledge of life’s hardships and fleeting joys. * Main subjects were the depiction of the
This frame focuses on the personal relationships that both the artists and the audience have with an artwork and with writings about art. It looks at the way the audience will attempt to understand the personal ideas of the artist and the different ways people will respond to the artworks.
KEYWORDS: Feelings Emotions Experiences Imagination Personality Individual Personal Sense
WHAT IS EXPRESSIONISM?
In the early 20th century Expressionism emerged as a subjective presentation of the world. Artists radically distorted imagery to strengthen the emotional effect and evoke moods and ideas.
Expressionists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality.
The art movement aimed to depict subjective emotions and responses to the lived experience. This was achieved by the use of: Distortion – Exaggeration – Primitivism – Fantasy - Vivid colour - Jarring or Discordant colour * The Expressionist’s goal was to impose the artist's own sensibility to the world's representation. Imagination is substitute * Expressionism assessed itself mostly in Germany, in 1910. As an international movement, expressionism has also been thought of as inheriting from certain medieval art forms and, more directly, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh and the fauvism movement. * The most well-known German expressionists are Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Lionel Feininger, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein; the Austrian Oskar Kokoschka, the Czech Alfred Kubin and the Norvegian Edvard Munch are also related to this movement. During his stay in Germany, the Russian Kandinsky was also an expressionism addict.
Issues: Politics - Social Realism-The human form
Forms: Printmaking and sculpture
Powerful - Intense - Deep Tenderness - Raw Emotion
Emotion and Subject * Her works were based on observation and knowledge of life’s hardships and fleeting joys. * Main subjects were the depiction of the