Weimar---Expressionism

In the visual arts area, the new form of painting had appeared. In the beginning in 1911 of the Weimar period, German critics generally spoke of ‘ Expressionism’ as an international movement encompassing Post-Impressionism. To specific, those critics understood “German Expressionism” of international movement.

In class, we saw many artists’ works during that period. They are all paintings.For example, artist Oskar Schemmer, “Four figures in space”, One of my favorite paintings. The shape of the body, and the vast and empty face impressed me.

It seems those people are not real but they exist around the us. What are they? What are these guys doing here? I guess there is some reason that artist draw those factual people. There is a big comparison. Another example, Ludwig Gies’ “Christ” also is a typical expressionism art works.