Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Expressionism sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Expressionism (c. 1905 – 1930s), it traces three movements that shaped it, a mix of well-established and looser, indirect links: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism and Fauvism; it fans out to eleven movements it went on to influence, a mix of well-established and looser, indirect links: Abstract art, Abstract expressionism, Antipodeans, Arbeitsrat für Kunst, COBRA, Dada, Neo-expressionism, New Objectivity, Nueva Figuración and Stuckism, and one more.
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists have sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality. Read more ↗
