Expressionist Paintings
EXPRESSIONIST STYLE
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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Style: Expressionist
Running Man 1 by Katya Tsareva - Triptych painting, acrylic on canvas, 2017
Located in Basel, BS
Running Man 1 is a vertical triptych, formed of 3 paintings, 40 x 50 cm each.
The triptych can be seen as a follow-up on Katya Tsareva's 2016 project "S...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Contemporary Art, Expressionist, Portrait - WE IV
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Gao, Renjie
The member of the Hudson Artists Society, New York
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2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Art, Expressionist, Portrait - Walk
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Gao, Renjie
The member of the Hudson Artists Society, New York
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2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Devotion
By Erich Waske
Located in Wien, 9
Deling with the work of Erich Waske today, one encounters first of all a number of reasons why this outstanding artist has fallen into such undeserved oblivion. In addition to the de...
Category
1960s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Gaukler Familie mit Instrumenten (Family of Jesters with Instruments)
Located in Washington, DC
German Modernist
Category
1960s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Series The Horse Whisper No.2-25
Located in Beijing, CN
Expressionist Figurative water color painting by Zhang Chunyang
Series The Horse Whisper No.2-25
Dimension: 29 x 36 cm
Material: Gouache, Watercolor on Paper
Date: 2013
Artist B...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Luckiness
Located in Beijing, CN
Expressionist Figurative water color painting by Zhang Chunyang
Title: Luckiness
Dimension: 29 x 36 cm
Material: Gouache, Watercolor on Paper
D...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Self Portrait in Rheinland-Pfalz
Located in Wien, 9
The painter was born in Austrian, but grew up in Munich and died in 2006 at the age of 77. He was an outstanding personality, atypical in the German art landscape. He started on the ...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mixed Media abstract painting- by contemporary artist Zhang Chunyang
Located in Beijing, CN
Mixed Media Painting
Title: Series Beasts of Burden No. 9
Dimension: 82 x 61 cm
Material: Mixed Media
Date: 2022
Artist Biography
Zhang Chunyang was...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Die Benno Kirche - Benno Church
Located in Wien, 9
The painter was born in Austrian, but grew up in Munich and died in 2006 at the age of 77. He was an outstanding personality, atypical in the German art landscape. He started on the ...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Mixed Media abstract painting- by contemporary artist Zhang Chunyang
Located in Beijing, CN
Mixed Media Painting
Title: Series Beasts of Burden No. 1
Dimension: 82 x 61 cm
Material: Mixed Media
Date: 2022
Artist Biography
Zhang Chunyang was...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Ensemble
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jean-Louis Mendrisse is a self-taught painter born in 1955 in Clermont-Ferrand.
Art, family affairs
Jean-Louis Mendrisse studied the deal with his famous sculptor father, Jean Mos...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Nude Dancer Burlesque Stripper with Purple Gloves - The Bump -
By Jack Levine
Located in Miami, FL
A gritty Burlesque Stripper with long purple gloves bumps and grinds with a hard-driving beat. American Social Realist artist Jack Levine paints this se...
Category
1970s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil, Board
'Red Roses and a Lemon', California, Post-Impressionist, Esalen Institute
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'Ant McNaught' for Anthony McNaught (American, born 1952), titled 'Still Life with Lemon', dated 2018 and inscribed, 'After Pablo Picasso'.
This California Post-Impressionist and Abstract Expressionist studied at Big Sur's Esalen Institute with Erin Gafill...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Porthtowan winter swimmers, beach, costal, swimming, Cornwall, people, nature
Located in Deddington, GB
Porthtowan winter swimmers is an Original painting by Eleanor Woolley Painted on the beach in Porthtowan this painting depicts some cold water swimmers braving the water. The headlan...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stream Channel with Yellow Woods
By Gandy Brodie
Located in Lawrence, NY
Oil pastel and gouache on paper
An artist whose work was simultaneously figurative and abstract, Brodie was praised as "one of the best painters of his generation" by art historian, ...
Category
1960s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Dance Moves, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The painting captures a lively scene where a group of people dances joyfully, lost in the music with closed eyes. Their vibrant clothing and fluid movements inf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Patterned Soul, " Acrylic on Canvas, 2022
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Three Irises by the pond 40X30 oil painting
Located in Sempach, LU
With vigorous strokes and a vibrant palette, I've brought to life the fleeting beauty of blooms by the water's edge. This oil painting is my ode to nature's serene moments, where the...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Pharaoh Group" Oil Painting 13" x 17" inch (1955) by Shaaban Zaki
By Shaaban Zaki
Located in Culver City, CA
"Pharaoh Group" Oil Painting 13" x 17" inch (1955) by Shaaban Zaki
Shaaban Zaki came from a lower-middle-class family who was mostly government employees, but he was distinguished f...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
The Yellow Bouquet seated female figure with flowers soft yellow and pink
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Seated woman in a pink suit strong yet warm color consistent with the artist's palette. It is painted on jute a coarse type of burlap mounted on a cradled wood board . Framing recomm...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Jute
"Late Night at the Studio", interior, factory, teal, blue, yellow, oil painting
Located in Natick, MA
“Late Night at The Studio” by Catherine Picard-Gibbs is an Expressionist interior factory scene in a palette of teal-blue and yellow. This evocative 18 x 24 inch oil on panel painting focuses on light pouring out from the haunting depths of an empty hallway. This textural artwork is framed in a silver crackle floater frame with a black interior, making the framed size 19 x 25 x 1.5 inches.
Catherine Picard-Gibbs paints with bold brush strokes, using vibrant colors to show emotion and movement in landscapes and urban scenes. Her inspiration comes from the nuance and drama of her everyday world. Her evocative works have been featured throughout Massachusetts, in New York, and in the Midwest. Picard-Gibbs is represented by Fountain Street Gallery...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sheryl Roberts, A Distant Stillness, Original Painting, Contemporary Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Sheryl Roberts
A Distant Stillness
Original Painting
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Signed
Sold Framed
(Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look).
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Oil
Beautiful wave 40X60 oil on canvas
Located in Sempach, LU
For those who love the sea, any wave is the most beautiful.
Every moment of the sea element is unique. He is unique and unique and this wave is also unique because it lives only for ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le port de Sète (South of France) - Oil on canvas, 66x92 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on Canvas by François Desnoyer, not framed. It depictes the port at Sète, in Occitanie, France.
François Desnoyer, né à Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) le 30 septembre 1894, et mort...
Category
1950s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Delicate dandelions 30X40
Located in Sempach, LU
This work symbolizes our wonderful, beautiful and fragile, like a crystal world.
The magic field of solar dandelions from which it is impossible to take your eyes off.
A short moment...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pastel Still Art
Located in Sempach, LU
"In creating this piece, I poured my heart into capturing the sublime dance between light and shadow, using oil to meld expressionism with a touch of impressionistic flair. The soft ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Anastasia Kurakina painting on canvas devotion
Located in London, GB
Artist: Anastasia Kurakina
abstract painting on canvas
hand signed
one of a kind
unique piece
50x50cm
large abstract brush strokes
vivid colours
blue, ochre, white, beige,gold
Anast...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Bouquet of lilacs 40Х40 oil painting
Located in Sempach, LU
In this oil on canvas, I've poured my soul into capturing the delicate dance of lilacs, their colors bursting with life. Each stroke represents an emotion, a breath of passion. I mel...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Spring pond 55X40
Located in Sempach, LU
In crafting this piece, I sought to capture the serene essence of nature's renewal. The interplay of light and color reflects on the water's surface, inviting contemplation. Each stroke embodies a moment of tranquility, a celebration of spring's dance. It's an invitation to the viewer to pause, breathe, and connect with the quiet vitality of a world reborn. In your space, it's a promise...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Connection" Expressionist Figurative Man and Woman
Located in Austin, TX
By Pep Suari
32" x 39.5" Acrylic on Linen
This figurative expressionist painting by Pep Suari depicts a man and a woman looking at each other with flowers between them. The colors o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Linen
Orquídea (Orchid)
Located in Segovia, ES
Expressionist interior corner that has an orchid as its protagonist. Predominant chromaticism between fuchsia-pink and yellow.
Oil on linen by Spanish artist Chico Montilla.
Beautifu...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Hilltop View, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Orchard trees stand in the distance, their foliage adorned in autumn's seasonal colors. Tall grass fills the foreground, blending seamlessly with the field. The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spring Orchard, Original Painting
By Janet Dyer
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Olive, almond, and cherry trees adorn an orchard in Provence, France. Their white crowns merge, filtering the sunlight and casting dappled shade below. Artist J...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
English Settlement, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Simple forms define this English town, while bright and deep colors add to its visual appeal. Artist Robert Hofherr aims for the viewer to perceive a place wher...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
A Spring Dance, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A vibrant and lovely bouquet blooms on a calming blue background. Its overall effect is both soothing and captivating. Artist Ronda Waiksnis uses palette knives...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Narcisos
Located in Segovia, ES
"Narcisos" . Oil on canvas by Spanish artist Chico Montilla.
Measurements: (H) 81 x (W) 100 x 2 (D) cm. Framed 104 x 123 x 6 cm.
Colorful expressionist still-life with daffodil flow...
Category
Early 1900s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Georges Rouault Portrait de Marie Thérèse Bonney
Located in Dallas, TX
Georges Rouault (French, 1871-1958) - Étude pour le Portrait de Marie Thérèse Bonney. A large specimen painting for Rouault beautifully framed in a shadow fashion making a grandiose ...
Category
1930s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Paint
City flower garden
Located in Sempach, LU
In this oil painting, I've poured my soul into capturing the harmony of nature amidst an urban soul. The textured strokes and vibrant colors evoke a sense of growth and renewal, crea...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Patrick Boudon. Inner Family. Post-war Expressionism. 1970s.
Located in Firenze, IT
Patrick Boudon.
Inner Family.
Post-war Expressionism.
1970s.
Patrick Boudon.
Art Informel. Ecole de Paris.
Technique: oil on cardboard.
This painting by Patrick Boudon from the 197...
Category
1970s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Reality Isn't What It Used To Be
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Peop...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Expressionist Floral Still Life
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful Expressionist floral still life painting. Oil on canvas measuring 14 x 20 inches, 18 x 24 inches framed.
Frame is from the 1960's but the canvas is clearly much older, ca...
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Early 20th Century Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
From Somewhere Deep Inside
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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Abou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
spheres, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Jorge Calero
Located in Yardley, PA
Spheres are conceived as a hologram of growing fruits, turning branches and invisible forces taking place in the inner quantic space where marvelous animals strive to survive, a remi...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Keeran
Located in London, GB
Artist: Anastasia Kurakina
acrylic painting on canvas glicee print
hand signed
BIO
In search of the human essence
As an artist, Anastasia Kurakina nurtures a great fondness for hu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Color, Giclée, Digital Pigment
Family Seated on a Bench at the Port
Located in London, GB
'Family Seated on a Bench at the Port', oil on board, by François Diana (circa 1970s). A painting with a very wholesome, homespun theme harks back to a more innocent time. A family i...
Category
1970s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Composition
Located in London, GB
Artsit: Olga Volha Piashko
"Composition" 100x200x0,1cm (105x210x0,1cm full size) cm (2014)acrilyc,oil on canvas.
hand signed
A world of energy and vibration, of subtle nuances and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
The Flowers: Guzmania. Circa 1963. Signed Giandante X. Milan.
Located in Firenze, IT
The Flowers: Guzmania.
Circa 1963.
Signed Giandante X, a painter born in Milan in 1899 and died in 1984.
Milano.
Measurements without the frame: 50 x 35 cm.
On the back is a pho...
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1960s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Tempera
The Harlequin
By Richard Mandin
Located in London, GB
'The Harlequin', oil on board, by Richard Mandin (1952). Harlequin's traditional diamond patterned costume, bicorn hat, and the wooden sword that denoted his buffoonery have appealed...
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1950s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
painting on glicee print circles
Located in London, GB
Anastasia Kurakina 's work are at the Vatican Museums collection since 2017
artist: Anastasia Kurakina
acrylic painting on clicee canvas print
limited edition
hand signed
Collec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Color, Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Giclée, Digital Pigment
Embossed textured orange flowers on a blue backgraund.Still life abstraction
Located in Sempach, LU
Still life of scarlet, orange flowers on a blue background. An interesting composition. The canvas space is completely filled with flowers. But!There is air in the gaps. This makes t...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Epoxy Resin, Acrylic
Invisible
Located in London, GB
Anastasia Kurakina's works on paper are the Vatican Museums collection since 2017
artist: Anastasia Kurakina
One of a kind
Hand signed
Oil painting on canvas
"The aspects of lif...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
painting on canvas print glicee Dame
Located in London, GB
artist: Anastasia Kurakina
acrylic painting on art print gliceé canvas
limited edition
hand signed
This Item will be shipped rolled, without stretcher/frame
Anastasia Kurakina's ar...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Giclée, Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
The abstraction painting "Neural Networks. Insights"
Located in Sempach, LU
"The abstraction painting""Neural Networks. Insights"". By forming a thought, we shape the future.
It is quite difficult to focus on the right, kind and creative when almost from eve...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Burgundy peonies, blue flowers in a vase.Candles and antique table.
Located in Sempach, LU
A gorgeous, luxurious lovely summer bouquet of flowers in a blue vase. Blue wildflowers of forget-me-nots grow at my mother's cottage. White flowers appeared in the forest, delicate....
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Lacquer, Oil
Raventos Citty original expressionist acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Manhatan original expressionist acrylic painting.
RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona 1930).
Raventos trained at the elite Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barc...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Fortitude
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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A di...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
As Far As You Can See
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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'As ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
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