German Expressionism was a movement that rebelled against the tradition of Realism,

both in subject matter and style. It applied to an artistic movement that lead

German Avant-Garde painting of the early 20th Century rule. Expressionist painting,

which developed in reaction to the dormant academic standards of the previous century,

discarded refined pictorial naturalism in favor of direct emotional expression

characterized by bold distortions of form and violent color.

Surrealism is a term coined by The French poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917 in

reference to his own writings, as well as the work of certain painters, such as Picasso and

Marc Chagall. In 1924, one of the founders, Andre Breton, revived the term in his

Manifesto of Surrealism, where he describes a "super-reality" connecting the dream

The movement is mostly concerned with the different aspects of the unconscious mind

and representations of the dream state.

Max Pechstein, an expressionist painter, born December 31, 1881, died June 29, 1955,

was a member of "DIE BRUECKE" (the bridge) A group of German e

Masson's automatic drawings, paintings based on emotive semi-abstract forms

d"avigon", the nudes look like wooden figures but Pechstein's does not has fragments in

adapted from Sigmund Freud, Breton saw the unconscious as the wellspring of the

objects are juxtaposed in suggestion of an alternative reality. The painting, is an

chromatic effects. Two Voices indicates an adept cutting technique where strokes are

His painting called "Zwiesprache" (Two Voices) painted in 1920 is of two nude females

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