#expressionists

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Egon Schiele

Portrait of Edith Schiele with Striped Dress, Sitting

“What comes to mind when you picture expressionism?” asks the wall text in the first room of the Expressionists exhibition at Tate Modern. Until 20th October 2024, the gallery is exploring the works of several artists associated with the expressionist movement, particularly those belonging to a circle of painters known as the Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter). The Blue Rider was a group of modern…

Many European artists in the later nineteenth century began to turn away from the naturalism that characterized Realist and Impressionist imagery. There was a new affinity for more abstracted visual languages, meant to express emotion or to explore the aesthetic possibilities of color and form. With the dawn of the twentieth century, spirituality, the trauma of war, psychological portraits, and the body all became common themes for a new generation of artists, particularly in the work of the Expressionists.