#art, «Expressionism» at OCS Valencia, by Bodo V.

Expressionism is one of the art vanguards of the XX Century. It started as a movement with artists from Germany, Austria, France and Russia in the years before WWI. But it did spread across Europe and to the Americas. The early ones are Munch, Van Gogh and James Ensor, the Belgian printmaker.

In Expressionism, you use colors to make the composition more dramatic and dynamic. It’s not about making things look natural, but about delving deep into the inner feelings and thoughts of the subjects and conveying their psychological state, intentions, and emotions. The artist has the freedom to alter, modify, amplify, or even recreate certain aspects of the subject’s appearance or body. The focus in Expressionism is not on representing reality accurately, but on exploring the subjective experience.

Needless to say it is my preferred style of artistic expression. Here are some of my expressionist paintings done digitally as Art Digital. I have used an original Surreal-Expressionist (to be explained on a future post) self-portrait to create these alternate self-portraits.

Here is a video I have made of Edvard Munch, whom I consider to be the «Father of Expressionism» with some of my «expressionist» music…

Cheers…