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INART 55
History of Electroacoustic Music
Expressionism
![]() Edvard Munch The Scream (1893) a precursor to Expressionist painting |
![]() Oscar Kokoschka Pieta (1908) |
![]() Oscar Kokoschka Knight Errant (1915) |
![]() Egon Schiele Mother with Two Children (1917) |
![]() Image from the film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920, directed by Robert Wiene, screenplay by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer |
Expressionism was a movement in painting and literature that sought to look beneath the surface to the inner life of its subjects. Expressionism is an artistic outgrowth of Freud's writing. A work of art was meant to be the same as a dream, symbolic of an internal truth. Many expressionist artists allied themselves with the atonal composers. |