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    the inspiration of different film movements since the development of motion picture. In particular‚ there is one film movement that has influenced other film styles such as film noir and horror. Hidden in the shadows of the film industry‚ German Expressionism began from darkness‚ created specific film traits‚ and challenged perspectives of society. Engulfed with chaos in Europe‚ Germany had suffered a humiliating defeat. Author George Huaco‚ in his book‚ The Sociology of Film Art‚ explains after World

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    Index: I. Definition of Expressionism 2 II. Origin of the term 4 III. List of Expressionism artists 7 IV. Before Expressionism 9 V. After Expressionism 10 VI. Some of the most

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    Expressionism in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg‚ Ohio According to Webster’s New World Dictionary‚ expressionism is “a 20th-c movement in art‚ literature...seeking to give symbolic‚ objective expression to inner experience.” In his essay‚ “Anderson’s Expressionist Art‚” David Stouck writes‚ The Winesburg stories accumulate power from those exaggerated‚ stylized gestures by which a character is revealed or through which a scream of suffering is made to be heard. “Expressionism” is the formal term

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    The Expressionistic Devices in Death of a Salesman Musical Motifs From the opening flute notes to their final reprise‚ Miller’s musical themes express the competing influences in Willy Loman’s mind. Once established‚ the themes need only be sounded to evoke certain time frames‚ emotions‚ and values. The first sounds of the drama‚ the flute notes "small and fine‚" represent the grass‚ trees‚ and horizon - objects of Willy’s (and Biff’s) longing that are tellingly absent from the overshadowed

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    German Expressionism and Tim Burton Tim Burton’s films have often been noted as modern day forms of German expressionism (the creative movement in Germany before World War I). It is through such things as sets‚ themes‚ makeup and costuming‚ lighting and shadows‚ acting techniques‚ and character that we can see Burton has been widely influenced by films of the era. The notable director’s films Edward Scissorhands (1990)‚ Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)‚ Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992)‚

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    Marcus Kulab Johnson GRM 410 Dr. Harald Menz German Expressionism and Early Cinema German expressionism is one of the most fundamental movements of early cinema. With its basic foundation stemming from the creation of the Universum Film AG in 1917 by the German government‚ expressionism found a happy home in Germany until‚ arguably the late 1920s (Wolf). Expressionism changed the canvas of cinema with its technical innovations as well as its impact on Hollywood‚ not only with its borrowing of

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    influenced by the prominence of fine arts (e.g. painting) movements‚ referred to collectively as Avant-garde. Avant-grade contained styles that rejected the realistic depiction of a concrete world‚ movements such as German Expressionism and Soviet Montage. German Expressionism attempted to express raw‚ extreme emotions‚ in painting through garish colors and distortion and in theatre through “emphasized gestures‚ loud declamation of lines‚ staring eyes‚ and choreographed movements” (Thompson and

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    Afton Muir 10-20-06 Abstract Expressionism The abstract expressionist movement shook the art world. It began in the early 1940’s and shifted the world’s attention to New York City‚ where artists like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko were shattering publicly held notions of what was considered art. It’s authentic period of vibrancy and newness lasted from the early 1940’s to the mid 1950’s. The social and political context in which the abstract expressionist movement came about was highly

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    pieces of art. In these eras‚ styles of painting changed and many of the different painting styles contrasted one another. Painting styles help to give a sense of the culture and history. Three of these eras: Neoclassicism‚ Impressionism‚ and Abstract Expressionism are just a few that reflected the differences in the painting styles‚ as well how the painting styles show the different ways of life. During the age of Neoclassicism‚ people were beginning to identify with the values of Greek and Roman

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    the rise as a center of art in the world‚ making it stand out even from Paris‚ which seemed impossible to compete with. As an abstract expressionist‚ a title that he often refused to be associated with‚ he played a significant role amongst his contemporaries in glorifying the Second World War art movement that came to be referred to as abstract expressionism (Wechsler‚ p. 71). Rothko’s style of art‚ as a pioneer‚ was referred to as color field painting‚ which immensely utilized the expressive

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