Expressionism

This art movement originated in Germany with two groups of painters, Die Bruecke and Der Blaue Reiter. Their objective was to depict the inner emotional qualities of human existence, rather than the external. Inspiration from Fauvism and Cubism were evident in the way they strayed from accurate portrayal of their subject matter. In the painting to the right by Ernst Kirchner //(member of Die Bruecke)// you can see first hand how expressionist's abandoned the traditional approach of painting what you see, and aimed to create more of an emotional response with their art.
 * __Expressionism__** (1905-1945)[[image:http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0G2Qq_fPuEc/SO0W3-Ob7JI/AAAAAAAAAO4/HcNzkJ4bcc8/s400/Kirchner_Forest.jpg width="196" height="240" align="right" caption="Forest with Brook, Ernst Kirchner"]]

By Jared Miller, Matthew Miller, and Brendon Yoder
 * __ Paul Klee __**
 * __ Artists name __**** - ** Paul Klee (1879-1940)
 * __ Famous Quote __**** - ** Art does not reproduce what you see; rather makes us see.
 * __ Interesting facts __** Paul Klee was born in Switzerland in 1879. He studied and worked as an etcher in Munich before becoming a part of the Blaue Rieter Group in 1911. He first wanted to do watercolors in the expressionist style but later on he started doing cubism and oils after he met Robert Delauney. He taught in the Bauhaus and explored his abstract paintings from 1920 to 1933. Those paintings were often derived from folk and children’s art. He returned to Switzerland and died in 1940.




 * Artist’s Name**- Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)


 * Famous quote**- “Objects damage pictures”
 * Interesting Fact**- He was a citizen in bothFrance andGermany

Wassily Kandinsky was born inMoscow,Russia. Kandinsky played a major role in the development of abstract art. Though Kandinsky was born in Russia, he primarily worked in Germanyand became a citizen there. He later became a citizen in France. One of the famous quotes that Kandinsky has said was “Objects damage pictures.” Kandinsky had each color with a specific association such as black was silence without hope. Through out his lifetime he had 60 artworks in museum collections. The artwork pictured below was name Composition VIII. It is currently placed in the SolomonR.Guggenheim Museum in New York. (Mackenzie Diaz, Bailey Koziol and Jensen Janowski)