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What is expressionist architecture?

What is expressionist architecture?

Expressionist architects used materials such as brick, concrete and glass to create novel sculptural forms and massing, sometimes distorted and fragmented to express an emotional perspective.

What are the characteristics of Neo-Expressionist art?

In general, Neo-Expressionist works are characterised by their intense expressive subjectivity, highly textural applications of paint, vividly contrasting colors and return to large-scale narrative imagery.

What was the main focus of expressionist architecture?

They tended toward abstraction, the idea of objects or structures not seen in the real world. Expressionist architecture was designed to evoke inner feelings and extreme emotions. Buildings created in this style made a statement and stood out from the structures around them.

What is modern expressionist design?

Expressionism. The style was characterized by an early modernist adoption of novel materials, formal innovation, and very unusual massing—sometimes inspired by natural biomorphic forms and sometimes by the new technical possibilities offered by the mass production of brick, steel, and glass.

What are the characteristics of expressionist architecture?

The style was characterised by an early-modernist adoption of novel materials, formal innovation, and very unusual massing, sometimes inspired by natural biomorphic forms, sometimes by the new technical possibilities offered by the mass production of brick, steel and especially glass.

What is the Neo-Expressionist style?

Neo-expressionism developed as a reaction against conceptual art and minimal art of the 1970s. Neo-expressionists returned to portraying recognizable objects, such as the human body (although sometimes in an abstract manner), in a rough and violently emotional way, often using vivid colors.

How would you describe Neo-Expressionism?

The Neo-Expressionist Style Its general style is often marked by vivid colours and contrasts, in the tradition of fauvism; rapid, violent brushwork; distorted subject matter; and a generally spontaneous technique, sometimes incorporating ‘found’ objects.