EXPRESSIONISM
[For students of Indian
Universities]
Dr. S. Sreekumar
1. INTRODUCTION
Expressionism
is a movement in art that originated in Germany and remained popular from 1910
to 1924. The movement began to decline by 1925 and the Nazis whose influence
was growing at that time suppressed the movement for political reasons.
The
Concise Oxford Dictionary defines
Expressionism as a style of painting, music, drama etc., in which an artist or
writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the
external world”. However this definition does not tell us much about the
various facts of the movement and “expressionism itself was never a concerted
or well-defined movement” (Abrams).
