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Movement Expressionism
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![Print, Le Renard et Le Buste, Marc Chagall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/665529_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Nemours, Le château et les bords du Loing, Bernard Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2140476_1_grid.jpg)
Nemours, Le château et les bords du Loing
Bernard Buffet
Print - 92 x 136 x 2 cm Print - 36.2 x 53.5 x 0.8 inch
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![Print, Prophet Killed by a Lion, Marc Chagall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/737865_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Composition, Marc Chagall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/665532_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Moses Meets his Brother Aaron in the Desert, Marc Chagall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/737877_1_grid.jpg)
Moses Meets his Brother Aaron in the Desert
Marc Chagall
Print - 44.2 x 33 x 0.3 cm Print - 17.4 x 13 x 0.1 inch
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![Print, Le Loup plaidant contre le Renard par-devant le Singe, Marc Chagall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/737859_1_grid.jpg)
Le Loup plaidant contre le Renard par-devant le Singe
Marc Chagall
Print - 42 x 33.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 16.5 x 13.2 x 0.1 inch
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![Print, Le Cerf se Voyant dans l'Eau, Marc Chagall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/731325_1_grid.jpg)
Le Cerf se Voyant dans l'Eau
Marc Chagall
Print - 42 x 33.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 16.5 x 13.2 x 0.1 inch
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![Print, Le Lion s'en Allant en Guerre, Marc Chagall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/665556_1_grid.jpg)
Le Lion s'en Allant en Guerre
Marc Chagall
Print - 41.7 x 34.2 x 0.2 cm Print - 16.4 x 13.5 x 0.1 inch
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![Print, Snowman, Otto Dix](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/766584_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Gravure pour 10, Vassily Kandinsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/632547_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Marianne, Bernard Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2166374_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, N°7 Danseurs, Xavier Albert Fiala](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/857001_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Clown Violoncelliste, Bernard Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2145288_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Iris et fleurs rouges, Bernard Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1394250_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Jacob's Blessing, Marc Chagall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/631494_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Pierrot avec Parapluie (Man with Umbrella), Marc Chagall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1179747_1_grid.jpg)
Pierrot avec Parapluie (Man with Umbrella)
Marc Chagall
Print - 35.6 x 29.2 cm Print - 14 x 11.5 inch
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![Print, La rascasse, Bernard Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1559163_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Bouquet de jonquilles, Bernard Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160357_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Tête de jeune femme (d'après Amedeo Modigliani), Amedeo Modigliani](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/954684_1_grid.jpg)
Tête de jeune femme (d'après Amedeo Modigliani)
Amedeo Modigliani
Sculpture - 54 x 21 x 21 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 8.3 x 8.3 inch
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![Print, Bouquet au fond vert, Bernard Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/440118_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Tête de jeune femme, ca., Amedeo Modigliani](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1457835_1_grid.jpg)
Tête de jeune femme, ca.
Amedeo Modigliani
Sculpture - 47.5 x 21 x 21 cm Sculpture - 18.7 x 8.3 x 8.3 inch
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![Print, Le Port de Saint-Tropez, Bernard Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1932084_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, La lutte du Jacob et du l''Ange (The Fight Between Jacob & the Angel), Marc Chagall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2008053_1_grid.jpg)
La lutte du Jacob et du l''Ange (The Fight Between Jacob & the Angel)
Marc Chagall
Print - 75.5 x 55.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.7 x 21.9 x 0 inch
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![Print, Un Clown, Bernard Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1100376_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Nature morte à la feuille de figuier, Bernard Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191341_1_grid.jpg)
Nature morte à la feuille de figuier
Bernard Buffet
Painting - 54 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
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![Print, La jongleuse et l'otarie, Bernard Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1680282_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Un Clown, Bernard Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1680276_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Pipo, Bernard Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1680270_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans titre, Paul Rebeyrolle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/556192_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Iris and red flowers bouquet, Bernard Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193706_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Œuvre originale de Bernard Buffet, Bernard Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/993291_1_grid.jpg)
Œuvre originale de Bernard Buffet
Bernard Buffet
Sculpture - 20 x 20 x 0.3 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
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![Print, Le Clown Jojo, Bernard Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1680264_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans titre, Paul Rebeyrolle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1976862_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans titre, Paul Rebeyrolle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1976859_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans titre, Paul Rebeyrolle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1976850_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Diana, Ulyana Korol](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154937_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Venus, Ulyana Korol](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154845_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, The Flute Player (M. 197), Marc Chagall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2002404_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Nature morte cubiste au pichet et bouteilles, Xavier Albert Fiala](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/966885_1_grid.jpg)
Nature morte cubiste au pichet et bouteilles
Xavier Albert Fiala
Painting - 61 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
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![Print, Skull, Otto Dix](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/766581_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Manifestation, Xavier Albert Fiala](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/966855_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Woman with Sunflower, Otto Dix](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/637158_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Cantique de David, Marc Chagall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1100379_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bouquet of daisies, Vasyl Khodakivskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2140383_1_grid.jpg)
Bouquet of daisies
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 70 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Evening quiet, Vasyl Khodakivskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2155158_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Rose fairy tale, Vasyl Khodakivskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158174_1_grid.jpg)
Rose fairy tale
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Gorgeous, Vasyl Khodakivskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2133820_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The walk, Vasyl Khodakivskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2008923_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Gentle glow, Vasyl Khodakivskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2119362_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Jeux de Dames, Bernard Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199156_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Marat, Bernard Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/948867_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Nu à l'éventail, Marc Chagall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/737883_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, L'Ecuyère, Marc Chagall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/665064_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, La Madone / Madonna - 1895, Edvard Munch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/157738_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Scent of mint, Vasyl Khodakivskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2064852_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The sounds of a flying bird, Vasyl Khodakivskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2003226_1_grid.jpg)
The sounds of a flying bird
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 90 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Bouquet de fleurs dans son vase Gallé, Bernard Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/705861_1_grid.jpg)
Bouquet de fleurs dans son vase Gallé
Bernard Buffet
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 1 inch
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Movement Expressionism
Unlike Impressionism, Expressionism sought not to reproduce a depiction of the world but rather illustrate the artist's emotional response to their surroundings. Garish colours, dynamic brush stokes, distorted compositions, primitive influences, strident and even violent subject matter; the Expressionists replaced visual reality for their own emotionally-charged perceptions of the truth. Expressionism first manifested itself in Germany in 1910, embodying the increasing anxiety that surrounded humanity's cacophonous relationship with spirituality and the world. The rapid urbanisation of the world and increasingly afflictive relationship to nature, inspired the Expressionists to explore the subjects alienated by industrialisation. Lonely products of capitalism, emotionally starved individuals, prostitutes and solitary souls were depicted through inflated and distorted brush strokes.
German Expressionism in particular can be divided into two distinctive groups: Die Brücke et Der Blaue Reiter. Despite their different approaches, these two movements are often merged into the single German Expressionist movement. Die Brücke (“The Bridge") was formed in 1905 in Dresden. It explored an emotional sensitivity that was divorced from intellect, and the weariness surrounding the German society that edged towards an inherent collapse. Artists leading the movement were Emil Nolde, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Erich Heckel. Der Blaue Reiter (“The Blue Rider") came after Die Brücke, and was a product of thinkers and philosophers. Intellectuals interrogated the boundaries of art and the power it had on society. It lasted from 1912 to 1914, and its key artists included Vassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Munter, Franz Marc, August Macke, and Alexej von Jawensky.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: one of the most important figures of the Die Brücke movement. Through his use of unusual compositions, figures in motion, stimulated renderings of the human form, an inflated hypersensitivity and vivid colours, Kirchner depicted Berlin's transforming bohemian life.
Emil Nolde: a significant painter of the movement, who was heavily influenced by Vincent Van Gogh. Nolde found inspiration in primitive art, and Van Gogh's influence can be felt in his acute preoccupation with flowers in his work. Golden hues and deep maroons resonate on his canvas, transforming these otherwise muted tones into vivid and captivating works of art.
Wassily Kandinsky: intensely inspired to create art that surpassed physical frontiers, he explored profound levels of spirituality in his work. His heavily abstracted compositions depict the vast extent of human emotion, and he considered music as the ultimate form of non-objective art.
Edvard Munch: a key figure in Expressionism, and an endlessly troubled artist, Munch was plagued by thoughts of death, illness, sex and religion. He channelled his agitated thoughts through complex and vivid compositions and subject matter, using the depiction of sex to convey the increasingly bohemian habit of using sexual experiences as a means of liberating oneself from social resignation.
Enter the distorted and hyperbolic psyches of the great Expressionist masters through our talented contemporary artists. Whether you're guided by Caroline Vis' colours, captivated by Alexander Bagrat's visceral nudes, or hypnotised by Joëlle Kem Lika's psychologically-charged compositions; Artsper has the Expressionism-inspired work for you.