• Expressionist Theatre - Explanation and History

     

    Essays1 Music, Art

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Published: 27.06.2005.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Expressionist Theatre - Explanation and History', 1.
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Expressionism started as a visual art form for an antidote to the beauty of impressionism. The point was to deny immediate perceptions of things, to analyse things then send them back as a pure but different view of that thing (it?s sometimes called ?anti-realism). I can give you a very simple example of expressionism: If I showed an impressionist a vase of flowers, they might produce something akin to ?A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers? by Edgar Degas. An expressionist might show you something like "Flowers in Vase" by Mary Lee Lombard or maybe something not at all like that.
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