Expressionism

Woyzeck / Wozzeck

I like the play very much and I can easily see how this play fits in the expressionist movement, it is very tragic. All of Woyzeck's feeling and what he thinks are reflected in his visions and then he acts them out. Like in most cases, he murdering Marie and beating up the Drum-Major (although he probably had it coming), is a result of add up situations such as his violent hallucinations, his poverty, the critizism from people, him being a lab rat and of course, the anger produced by his wife having an affair.
Although, sometimes or most of the times he manages to keep his cool rather impressively.
The author probably had hallucinations of the type because these are very violent and creative so I think he must've had experiences alike and wrote about them to express what he feels and get it out of him.
Now, for the Wozzeck opera, I didn't like it very much. As I've said before in a post, I don't really like opera, although, the connection to the opera and the feelings of the play is very wide and easily  identified. Also I think opera is a great example of the expressionist movement since its almost purely expressions and emotions.


Expressionist Architecture

I fail to see the expressionism in a building. I think buildings follow form and because they are always for a purpose other than looking good, they do not transmit feelings or expressions all that well. Some of the are a lot of information and colors and forms, but with all this its hard to find emotions in a building.

Der Blaue Reiter

• Lyonel Feininger

His paintings are very near cubism, yet they show a lot of emotions in the way that when you see it you know it wasn't a commissioned painting and that Feininger did it to say something to the viewer. The Harbor Mole is very violent and scary but I loved it because it is so near abstract or cubist and it shows feelings like tragedy and pain.

Altthoug, I didn't like that much his more realistic and happy paintings such as Toy Town although thet are still amazing.

• Paul Klee

Very alike to the other expressionist painters. I think they are, apart from Saturn devouring his son, and The scream, the most expressionistic. I mean they produce more feelings or the transmit them more and more efficiently.

Austrian Expressionism

• Oskar Kokoschka

Although his paintings, in my opinion aren't as good and amazing as Egon Schiele's, these are still very amazing and I like them very much. I love the technique he used because it makes it look very violent and along with the colors it creates a great effect of violence and abstraction or weird forms. They are incredibly interesting to watch and try to describe them completely.

Expressionist Theater and Film

Theater and film is probably the easiest way (probably even more than opera) to express your feelings in an artistic and beautifull and not direct way. But, you are limited to what you can do. For example, in a painting you can make anything in any way but making a film you have to stick to human reality which could be limited in certain ways, but still, since there is movement and sound, very easily to express feelings and they are easily and successfully perceived.

A good example (at least for me, since its probably only slightly expressionistic), is Vincent by Tim Burton which is so expressive and I love it.

Expressionist Poetry

Poetry, in expressionism, was and is in fact the most educated and stylish way of expressing your feeling artistically. Most of them use vocabulary which some people might not normally now and also everything or almost everything is  in context and in between the lines.