German Expressionism was a movement that rebelled against the tradition of Realism, both in subject matter and style. It applied to an artistic movement that lead German Avant-Garde painting of the early 20th Century rule. Expressionist painting, which developed in reaction to the dormant ac...

Romare Bearden is among the greatest artists of his generation. His complex and powerful works represent the places where he lived and worked: the rural North Carolina, the urban area of the northern cities (primarily Pittsburgh and New York\'s Harlem), and the Caribbean island of St. Martin. Religi...

Abstract In July 1937, Adolph Hitler\'s Nazi party mounted an exhibition of confiscated art called, \"Entartete Kunst,\" meaning, \"Degenerate Art.\" It showcased and ridiculed the work of contemporary artists such as Max Beckman, Emil Nolde, Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, and over 200 others. This pape...

Edvard Munch was an influential Norwegian painter and printmaker whose evocative painting \"The Scream\" meant to imply existential anguish and fear. However, as mass production and technology have made advances the perspective placed in a post-modernistic setting when viewing the painting can be s...

Among the leading painters of post-World War II Abstract Expressionist movement, Franz Kline developed his own highly personal form of art based more on \"spontaneous expression in abstract design of the artist\'s psychic states.\"1 Abstract expressionism saw representation as the exact opposite of...

Early 20th century Germany was an ideological melting pot for both artists and society. Dealing with both an industrial revolution that had quickly urbanized many areas of Germany and the destruction and defeat in WWI, artists were quickly rebelling against the society which they thought had failed...