2. Visual Arts
• Several groups of artists in Germany
• Communicates strong emotional feelings
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Kathe Kollwitz
3. Kathe Kollwitz
• Expressionists use line, geometric shapes
shadow, and color to create emotion in their work.
• These artists also focus on subject matter that is
dark and sad including: death, and starvation.
5. Edvard Munch, The Scream.
• What is going on in this
painting?
• What is the subject?
• What colors do you
see?
• What brush stokes do
you see?
6. Max Beckman, Hunger (plate5) from Hell. 1919
• What is the subject matter of this work?
• What do you notice about the lines,
and shapes in the work?
• What do you notice about the shadows?
• Is there anything in this work that is
unexplainable, or difficult to explain?
8. Styles in Music and Art
• Art, Music, Drama, Dance and Literature have
changed over time.
• All have gone through different styles at the
same time.
• Styles are like genres of music, movies and
literature.
• What genres can you think of?
9. Expressionistic Film
• Expressionistic films are dark and creepy.
• The earliest films that were expressionistic in
style were monster movies.
• They can be unpredictable
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was one of the first
of these films.
10. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Compare this to the Beckman work.
• This is dark and creepy.
• There are geometric shaped shadows that have been painted on the ground.
• The buildings look like they belong in a funhouse.
• Nothing is straight.
• The tops of doors and bottoms of windows are slanted.
11. Film
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Entire Film
• Film Noir: Stylish Hollywood crime dramas.
Spanned from 1940-1950 (These followed
monster movies).
Still from The Big Combo, 1955.
12. Important Terms
• Anti-Heroic: A main
character in a dramatic or
narrative work who is
characterized by a lack of
traditional heroic
qualities, such as idealism
or courage.
• Urban: A city, or town.
• Madness: The condition
of being insane.
• Somnambulist:
Sleepwalker
• What is “The Cabinet of
Dr. Caligari”?
• Who are Munch and
Kirchner?
• Style: The personal way
of using the art elements
and principles to
reproduce what they see
and to express their ideas
and feelings.
