No other artistic style has had as much an impact on 20th century art as expressionism has.

Expressionism not only has influenced the art movement, it has influenced other expressive, creative areas such as literature, theatre and cinema.

One of the two Expressionist movements was Die Brucke (The Bridge), which emerged in Germany early in the 20th century.

The artists found inspiration from their predecessors like Van Gogh, Ensor, Munch, Goya, El Greco and Mathias Grunewald and as far back as primitive art.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner played a prominent role in the Die Brucke, and insisted that the artists all expressed with their inner convictions sincerely and spontaneously.

After a while the artist’s inner convictions began to differ, and the Die Brucke came to an end.

So much of early expressionism was used in a negative way due to artists own emotional/mental problems, for example, fear of death, fear of being alone, or exclusion from society. To which this brought on work that represented pain, destruction, dark drama and doom and gloom.

Understandably so, considering so many of them went through the horrific experi

Tentative in the fact that he was not fully aware of the possible consequences of his theory, but he stood by his belief that the world was moving toward a new age in the history of art.

In 1910 he had asked the following question,

Kandinsky like Goethe believed that there was a connection between science, spirituality and art. He felt it was possible somehow to meld all this together and transfer it onto canvas, buy using form and colour in a non-figurative format.

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