Monday, January 30, 2012
What is expressionism?
To me, expressionism is like that draw you feel to watching a car crash or a dog shit. Clearly you're supposed to look away but for some strange reason you keep watching. Expressionism is putting all the emotions that society likes to ignore and put under the rug and letting them explode all into one piece of work. I consider expressionism "naked art". As you take layers of clothes off, things change. Once you're naked, you're naked. There's nothing else to take off. Expressionism is emotion at its purest form. Expressionism is those thoughts in your head that no one else can see like when your in class and you zone out and picture what would happen if you just got up and flipped over a desk, or smacked someone that's been pissing you off in the face. Expressionism is those secret thoughts, but actually doing them.
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"To me, expressionism is like that draw you feel to watching a car crash or a dog shit. Clearly you're supposed to look away but for some strange reason you keep watching."
ReplyDeleteThis is excellent! Great way to express it - the pull that makes the woman in the movie walk down the dark hallway when she knows there's a murderer waiting down there for her. That fascination with the unknown so close we can just about grab it, but never quite touch it.
Excellent. I think you grasp this quite well.
Luke