Expressionism in Art

While looking at works like Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”, or maybe the extremely popular “Starry Night”, it becomes apparent that Expressionist art aims to convey the artist’s emotional state, rather than an objective reality. Considering this, artists of this movement used exaggerations and distortions to achieve desired results, often creating works which were vivid, and sometimes jarring, or even violent. The rise of Expressionism is marked by the works of Van Gogh, James Ensor, and Edvard Munch, each of whom used a distinct but similar way of creating artworks. They used a wide variety of colours expressively and ventured into dramatic and intense themes, often containing elements of horror and fear, or sometimes just a depiction of nature in a sort of hallucinatory way.