Me myself and I

Van Gogh

Henri Matisse

Expressionism (click to find out more)

The term ``Expressionism'' can be used to describe various art forms but, in its broadest sense, it is used to describe any art that raises subjective feelings above objective observations. The paintings aim to reflect the artists’ state of mind rather than the reality of the external world. The German Expressionist movement began in 1905 with artists such as Kirchner and Nolde, who favoured the Fauvist style of bright colours but also added stronger linear effects and harsher outlines.

Above the paintings in bright colour are by Henri Matisse Fauvism has its roots in the post-impressionist paintings of Paul Gauguin. It was his use of symbolic colour that pushed art towards the style of Fauvism. Gauguin proposed that colour had a symbolic vocabulary which could be used to visually translate a range of emotions.

Texture and layering of paint are methods of painting, that allows you to express an emotion; or state of mind.

"I love Van Gogh’s style. Layered paint and Henri Matisse’s use of colour."

My next assignment is to create an image of myself in an emotional expressive painting style.

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