EXPRESSIONISM
-artistic style, artist depicts the subjective emotions and responses that objects & events arise in him
-through: distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy
- Edvard Munch: The Scream, 1893 (Norwegian expressionistic painting)
- Oskar Kokoschka
- Munch's The Sick Child, 1907
- George Rovalt's The Slaughter, 1907
- Otto Dix, The Journalist Sylvia Von Harden, 1926
- George Grosz's "The Convict", 1920
- Grosz- influenced by Dada
- The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill
- O'Neill- Father of American Realism
- America's premier playwright
- Expressionistic works are exciting
- Comics are applied Expressionism
- Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine
- Philosophical Component of Expression; it's the Antithesis of Futurism
- Nostferatu (Germany, 1922)
- Tim Burton- most famous contemporary Comic Expressionist
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| The Nightmare Before Christmas. You can thank Tim Burton. |
- "Machinal" by Sophie Treadwell
- "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"
- "Metropolis"- 1927
- "Dark City"- 1998
- (Secret Door via Tumblr)
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SURREALISM
(dreamstate)
(video: Doll Face)
- Hieronymous Bosch (c. 1450-1516)- "Garden of Earthly Delights"
- 20th Century literary and artistic movement
- attempts to express workings of the subconscious by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter
- Flourished between World War I and World War II
- 1924- poet/critic Andre Breton published "The Surrealist Manifesto"
- reuniting realms of conscious and unconscious experience
- Salvador Dali- "The Persistence of Memory" (1931)
- Crucifixion, 1954 (Hypercubic Body)
- Alberto Giacomelli- The Surrealist Table, 1933
- Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali- worked together
Surrealist Stagework
"The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower" by Jean Cocteau (Paris, 1921)
Pablo Picasso did design work (EX. "Parade" by Cocteau)
(Video: "What Dreams May Come")
EX. Monty Python's Flying Circus
EX. Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
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