Victor Egorov
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 2000s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
People Also Browsed
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
C Print, Color
2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Oil
1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
Jon BlanchetteOn Broadway, Santa Cruz, Southern California, 1950s Landscape Oil Painting, circa 1955
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Linen, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Pastel
1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Artist Comments
A minimalist realistic still life of an open pomegranate by artist Christopher Garvey. The tart fruit is cut in three portions with its seeds scattered around a...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 2000s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
A Close Look at expressionist Art
While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared.
Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.
Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.
Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.
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