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Understanding Art Movements: Expressionism & Pop Art

Pablo Picasso said that "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." Art can be defined broadly as diverse human activities and products that include works of art, art criticism, the study of art history, and the dissemination of aesthetics. Expressionism was an early 20th century modernist movement that originated in Germany and sought to portray the world from a subjective perspective through emotional distortion rather than physical realism. Expressionism remained popular in Germany, particularly Berlin, and extended to other art forms through the early 20th century. Pop art emerged in the 1950s in Britain and the US and presented a challenge to fine art traditions by including popular culture imagery such as advertising in works removed from their context.

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Understanding Art Movements: Expressionism & Pop Art

Pablo Picasso said that "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." Art can be defined broadly as diverse human activities and products that include works of art, art criticism, the study of art history, and the dissemination of aesthetics. Expressionism was an early 20th century modernist movement that originated in Germany and sought to portray the world from a subjective perspective through emotional distortion rather than physical realism. Expressionism remained popular in Germany, particularly Berlin, and extended to other art forms through the early 20th century. Pop art emerged in the 1950s in Britain and the US and presented a challenge to fine art traditions by including popular culture imagery such as advertising in works removed from their context.

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Art washes away from the

soul the dust of everyday


life.
Pablo Picasso

What is
art?

Artis a diverse
range ofhuman
activitiesand the
products of those
activities. In their
most general form
these activities
include the
production of works
of art, the criticism
of art, the study of
the history of art,
and the aesthetic
dissemination of art.
Wikipedia
Art is not a
handicraft, it is the

Expressionismwas a
modernistmovement,
initially inpoetryand
painting, originating in
Germany at the beginning
of the 20th century. Its
typical trait is to present
the world solely from a
subjective perspective,
distorting it for emotional
effect in order to evoke
moods or ideas.
Expressionist artists
sought to express
meaning or emotional
experience rather than
physical reality.

Expressionism was
developed as an
avant-gardestyle
before the First World
War. It remained
popular during the
Weimar Republic
,particularly in
Berlin. The style
extended to a wide
range of the arts,
including
expressionist archite
cture
, painting, literature,
theatre, dance,film

"View of
Toledo"byEl
Greco has been
indicated to
have a
particularly
resemblance to
20th-century
expressionism.
Historically
however it is an
example of
Mannerism.
1595

The Expressionism has been characterized as a


reaction topositivismand other artistic styles
such as Naturalism and Impressionism.

Naturalism or realism :
Diego Velzquez, The Farmers'
Lunch

Expressionism:
Franz Marc The Large Blue
Horses

Impressionism :
Claude Monet Graystaks

Expressioni
st
paintings:

Fighting Forms by
Franz Marc

Nollendorfplatz by
Ernst Ludwig

Deer in Woods by
Franz Marc

The Scream by
Edvard Munch

Pop art is an art


movement that
emerged in the mid1950s in Britain and in
the late 1950s in the
U.S.A.
Pop art presented a
challenge to traditions
of fine art by including
imagery from popular
culture such as
advertising, news, etc.
In pop art, material is
sometimes visually
removed from its
known context,
isolated, and/or
combined with

Pop art paintings

Campbell
Warhol

I was a Rich Man's Plaything


by

Soup

by

"Three Machines" (1963), by Wayne


Thiebaud

Art enables us to find ourselves


and lose ourselves at the same
time.
Thomas
Merton

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