EXPRESSIONISM

Expressionism is one of the main currents of art in the later 19th and the 20th centuries, started in Germany and its qualities of highly subjective, personal, spontaneous self-expression are typical of a wide range of modern artists and art movements. In this art movement unlike others, artists create what they feel not to reproduce the impression suggested by the surrounding world. Expressionist artist replace the common known figure with his own image of this object.
Just before Expressionism there was a crystallization of living and of art into approved and recognized molds. Morals were codified, a rigid model of living was set up, every activity of man was charted, and sanctioned and forbidden. Expressionism represents a new stage reached in art's upward climb: that is the art proper to the present-day expanding world, and rightly diffewrent from the art of the tight-bound 19th century society.
 Lady in a Green Jacket- August Macke
 On White- Wassily Kandinski

In architecture, two specific buildings are identified as Expressionist: Bruno Taut's Glass Pavilion of the CologneWerkbund Exhibition (1914)



 and Erich Mendelsohn's Einstein Tower in Potsdam.






*Cheney,Sheldon; Expressionism in Art, Liveright Publishing, 1958
*http://www.artmovements.co.uk/expressionism.htm