In this essay, I will be looking at the art movement of expressionist style in relation to the development of German expressionism film. I will also be looking at how drawings and paintings have been bought to life within the use of film.

The expressionist movement began mainly around Dresden in Germany before the First World War I. This was the same year the organization group Die Bruche (The Bridge) was formed. The artists Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Ernst Kugwin Kirchner, and Karl Schmidt Rottluff, created freedom to learn with and from one other, it was no accident that they discovered the use of woodcuts. Woodcut lithography and posters were the main sources for expressionism, the group was eager to find forms that imitated nature, and to make visible to paper, through the use of bright and bold colours enhancing the shape and form. Colour, drawings and proportions were very important. Line and colours were often pronounced; colour and value contrast was intensified.

Between the year 1905 to 1911, the main influence for the artist came from Jugendstil (a german version of art Nouveau) Vincent Van Gogh, and especially Edvard Munch, this lead to Marc and Kandinsky

Abstract expressionism such as the artist Jackson Pollock and Mar Rothko, tries to express basic emotions throughout, vivid colours, bold forms and spontaneous methods. By dripping and flinging paint onto canvases is an effort to show personal perception and feelings, not all work seems expressive, but believed the spontaneity of the artists approach to their own work could draw from the release of creativity of their unconscious minds.

Eisner Lotte, The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in German Cinema, California Press, 1969

The achievement of their exhibition in 1912, consisting only with forty-two paintings, became one of the most important documents of modern art. 1

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