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Both images lack any color, but the German piece is done with more harsh tones and hard lines.

French and German expressionism both hold very strong emotional overtones in their works.

Throughout most German expressionism the emphasis was put on line rather than color, linear pieces seem to have been the more important style. The French seem to create works were color was the expressive element more over line. The emotional content presented through the use of expressionism contained many similarities and differences all over Europe, allowing the ideas of expressionism to catch on like wildfire. This was a common feeling of many German artists of this time. I don’t think that the French held as much regard for line in their color works as the Germans did. The German piece seems very dark and tragic, almost desperate.

The French works had a more smooth look to them and the German pieces seem much more rough and undefined, but both used line in their pieces to emphasize their thoughts. hat tradition of introspection that was present, Germans looking inside at themselves. The Germans seem more concentrated on the psychology and internal workings of human beings, especially human suffering. Both pieces were accurate depictions of many modern feelings and ideas that were forming all over the world. The French piece is very smooth and gray-toned, but in both of these pieces an expression of the human condition is present, generally the French being more optimistic and the Germans more pessimistic.

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. Expressionism would eventually usher in even more abstract and emotional periods of modern art as time progressed.

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