¶ … Expressionists€ ™ view of German cities to the Surrealists€ ™ vision of Paris in visual arts and literature and film (give examples of artworks).
German Expressionism vs. Surrealism:
Contrasting views of the urban landscape in visual arts and film
The 20th century art movement of Expressionism is particularly associated with Germany. Expressionist art is distinguished by its intense colors, distorted shapes, and focus upon the darker aspects of modern, urban life (Pioch 2002). The bright colors may have had their roots in Fauvism and Post-Impressionism, but the expressionists used these colors to invoke a sense of hostility, even despair, rather than joy (Pioch 2002). Rather than beauty even the brightest colors were used to convey a sense of distortion and fear. This can be seen in Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's 1913 Berlin Street Scene where the colors are used to convey a sense of violence and the visual texture has been said to be characterized by a sense of hysteria (Pioch 2002). The faces of the fashionable women and the bohemian man with a cigarette in the image look superficially jaunty and gay, but the distorted, almost El Greco-like...
Cinema as art serves several functions, not least of which is visual impact. Yet because motion pictures are inherently multimedia, soundscape, theater, and writing converge with the elements of visual cinematography and mis-en-scene. Film is often dichotomized, placed into an artificial binary of art films versus films made for a popular audience and designed for entertainment. However, many movies in the history of cinema prove that the line between art
Improvisation No. 28," painted by Wassily Kandinsky in 1912, an example of German Expressionism. Kandinsky used oil and painted on canvas. The size of the canvas is 43 7/8 x 63 7/8 inches. Kandinsky was born and raised in Russia. He also lived in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s and taught there until the Nazis shut down the academy where he taught. With the rise of the Nazi
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