Expressionism

If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it. It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form. - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

In 1905, Kirchner, along with Fritz Bleyl and two other architecture students, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich Heckel, founded the artists group Die Brücke ("The Bridge"). From then on, he committed himself to art.

The group aimed to eschew the prevalent traditional academic style and find a new mode of artistic expression, which would form a bridge (hence the name) between the past and the present.

Their group was one of the seminal ones which in due course had a major impact on the evolution of modern art in the 20th century and created the style of Expressionism.

Ilya Shkipin is an artist combining new technologies with traditional expressionism.

He employs gestural paint application to interpret the spectrum of emotional response through amorphous imagery.

In his paintings, he depicts reality by placing anguished figures in dream-like empty, distorted spaces. Figures blend into their environments like the way memories spontaneously pass into and out of oblivion.

Tulip catcher

Ilya explores a personal connection with the subject, taking inspiration from photos, movie stills and imagination.

An ordinary scene in a journalistic sense dissolves and melts, figures bleed into each other, into the environment, frozen in time, broken down by emotions of space.

Royal Decree

Finally together

Both of us loved blue, Marc – horses, and me – horsemen.” - Wassily Kandinsky

Although Die Brücke was arguably the founding organization for the German Expressionist movement, they did not use the word itself. A few years later, in 1911, a like-minded group of young artists formed Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) in Munich. The name came from Wassily Kandinsky's Der Blaue Reiter painting of 1903. Among their members were Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Paul Klee, and August Macke.

The artists associated with Der Blaue Reiter were important pioneers of modern art of the 20th century; they formed a loose network of relationships, but not an art group in the narrower sense like Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden. The work of the affiliated artists is also assigned to German Expressionism.

Adam Disbrow (AD_AD) is a US based American Expressionist Artist.

“I work to explore and represent the unseen elements of creation. I am interested in the relationship of opposition — specifically life and death and the sacred and profane. I explore these connections by presenting concepts, objects, and events both symbolically and objectively. I think that art is a mirror that reflects who we are by what we see in it and how it makes us feel. The viewer brings themself to the work. By objectively layering concepts and symbols with varying colors and sheens, I work to create a free space for the mind and eye to express itself honestly."

Blue Hands, AD_AD

“Blue is the typical heavenly colour. The ultimate feeling it creates is one of rest. When it sinks to almost black, it echos grief that is hardly human.” ― Wassily Kandinsky

UNTITLED (CNGLMRT), AD_AD

LION, AD_AD

Alperaym.tez's Scream is an obvious nod to Edvard Munch's The Scream (1893), which has become an iconic image of the art world. Munch was an important precursor of Expressionism.

“From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.” ― Henri Matisse

Paint laid on thick, colors popping off the page, and unnatural hues – similar to expressionism , Fauvinism is another art movements that brought these characteristics to life.

Fauvism took hold of the art scene from 1905 to 1910, around the same time as the German Expressionist movement, and is characterized by intense color and bold brushwork. In some cases, artists from this period applied paint straight from the bottle. They chose simple subjects and because of this, the paintings looked almost abstract.

Art critic Louis Vauxcelles coined the term after he described the work of Henri Matisse and Andre Derain as “les fauves” or the beasts during a 1905 exhibition at the Salon d’Automne in Paris. The work at the show by Matisse and Derain were full of non-naturalistic color choices and wild drabs of paint on the canvas. It would mark the beginning of fauvism.

Mory Gato is a digital artist who expresses a tangible melancholia in his post- Fauvinist series A Delicate Chaos.

A Delicate Chaos #27

A Delicate Chaos #28

Scream, Alperaym.tez

SignoraZ is a mutating, collage art collection with unique artworks.

The woman emerges from the shadows in the background. The images are timeless, a fusion of past and present. They jump in and out of different movements and genres of history.

Mory Gato 2022

Signora Z 0111

Signora Z 0105

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a pop icon, cultural figure, graffiti artist, musician, and neo-expressionist painter. Basquiat's art focused on dichotomies such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience.

Basqkek describes himsef as "Pepe with Basquiat Painting Archetype".

BASQKEK X PEPENDY WARHOL (STUDIO)

TEZ TOTER #50, aemile.tez

In the 1970s Basquiat began to spray paint buildings in Lower Manhattan, using the pseudonym SAMO, earning him notoriety and a certain amount of fame.

aemile.tez 's Tez Toter series invokes those same neo-expressionist vibes of the precocious Basquiat.

Neo-expressionism is a style of late-modernist or early-postmodern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s. Neo-expressionists were sometimes called Neue Wilden ('The new wild ones'; 'New Fauves' would better meet the meaning of the term). It is also characterized by intense subjectivity and rough handling of materials.