Expressionism is an international artistic movement in art, architecture, literature, and performance that flourished between 1905 and 1920, especially in Germany and Austria, that sought to express meaning from emotional experience rather than physical reality.
Expressionism is an international artistic movement in art, architecture, literature, and performance that flourished between 1905 and 1920, especially in Germany and Austria, that sought to express meaning from emotional experience rather than physical reality. The conventions of the expressionist style include distortion, exaggeration, fantasy, and the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of color to express the artist's inner feelings or ideas.