Glossary: Expressionism

At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, expressionism was finding it's roots in Europe especially by German and Austrian artists, such as Emil Nolde, Kirchner, Gustav Klimt, and others. The characteristics of expressionism are bright, even garish, colour, harsh contrasts of black and white (as in woodcuts), exaggeration of form and distortion or elongation of figures. The subject matter is often distorted in colour with free brushwork and liberal amounts of paint.

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